David Teten

JUNE 3, 2014

For the third year in a row, ff Venture Capital is co-sponsoring the New York Demo Day for Georgia Tech’s Flashpoint Accelerator, along with HBS Alumni Angels of NY. We met Ionic Security, one of our portfolio companies, at their first Demo Day a few years ago. Atlanta ff Venture Capital HBS Alumni Angels New York'

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

These days there are many lawyers that will do equity deals cheaply as long is it is a standardized, simplified term sheet, early stage, no serious investor / management debates, limited IP / customers / due diligence and as long as they perceive you as a “hot&# company that’s likely to need legal services for many years ahead. .

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Capital Innovators put on the event, called Demo Day, at the cherished Pageant Theater, which normally is a concert venue. The second event was the annual Invest Midwest conference on Thursday.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

Last weekend saw the end of the program, and the startups were then expected to prove their worth to a crowd during the JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp Demo Day. JFDI Asia sure knows how to throw a Demo Day: it turned local nightspot TAB Singapore into part startup launchpad and part investor pitch conference for the Demo Day. Tradegecko.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Fortieth in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. supply chain management, marketing), but not a good product. Keeping the Faith While Raising Venture Capital (markevanstech.com). askthevc.com).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Get ready to experience hands-on, cutting edge technology demos (and some wild future science stuff you never thought was possible). public, private, debt, equity, market return, concessionary capital, etc. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. You can see a much larger list at the end.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. Jim raised another venture fund as did I at Upfront Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

meet with tons of companies every week, work hard for their portfolio companies, and are on planes flying around to the important confereneces and demo days". he's only been in venture for two years and only through one market, an up one!" I'm the first one to say to myself "Why does that guy have a fund.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 23, 2016

At demo days and on Hacker News, I found that many of the young companies I was excited about shared a seed investor, Chris Dixon. The next day, there was an email in my inbox asking if I’d consider a move to venture capital. Fortunately, my new job doubles down on my favorite parts of working as a reporter.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. Scaling venture capital breaks it. Venture capital is, and should remain, a boutique industry (See The Venture Boutique , blog post from 2008).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. First, our mantra to the students has been to learn about “Deployment not Demos.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

And inviting to the booth/dinner/private demo. General Comments for both Awareness and Lead Generation Demo’s I don’t care how small the booth or trade show is, do a canned demo every 20 to 30 minutes regardless of whether anyone is at your booth or not. Demo’s are the heart of the booth. One of them is a loser.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Money from these sources is relatively easy to come by, and most often comes with no strings as to oversight by a formal board composed of these investors and management. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This Stanford class will introduce management tools for entrepreneurs. Working with your team you will encounter issues on how to build and work with a team and we will help you understand how to build and manage the startup team. Read: Steve Blank, “Lessons Learned – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch”, [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. Something Profound Engineering gave us a demo of the prototype board and software and asked, “Do you guys think we can sell a few of these boards?” We must have made them play the demo twenty times. My first IPO at Convergent.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. So that means 2-3 good investments a year and we are doing well. Price matters.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Now with over 750 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) Minimal viable products are being demo’d to sponsors and sponsors are reacting to what the teams are learning. They have to create incentives for middle management leaders to take on horizon three ideas. Hill in Virginia.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

In the past they had no way to monitor and manage these investments. It might be possible to create Virtual Valley Ventures. Here are some examples of how rich the interaction can become when a management team embraces the approach. Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. First, our mantra to the students has been to learn about “Deployment not Demos.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

an extreme example, that graphic designer or photographer who was paid as an independent contractor to create an image for the website may have also offered some input on other aspects of the user experience after reviewing a demo or mockup. All opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Gust.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. You can’t get paid for sitting on the sidelines – I always tell people that when recessions start managers in large companies get rewarded for cutting costs.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 27, 2020

My co-founder Andrew and I built Canny , a SaaS tool to help businesses collect and manage customer feedback and build their product roadmap, from the ground up. We also knew we didn’t want venture capital funding. Embrace the role of “manager”. Becoming a manager. We’re now a team of seven ( and growing ).

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David Teten

JUNE 16, 2011

6:40 PM – 6:50 PM – foodspotting.com (demo only). Panel: Bill Reinisch - Paladin Capital Group. Geoff Schneider – Managing Partner @ Cava Capital. Geoff Schneider – Managing Partner @ Cava Capital. Sachin Jade – Partner @ Klifer Capital. Chadbourne & Parke LLP.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2014

All he had to do was hangout at hackathons and do demos where he wrote code live. a content producer, a technical person who knows your product and loves it, an events manager, etc. Venture Capital & Technology' someone who can win over the VCs, the CTOs, create content, etc. all at once. In other words, a unicorn.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

“The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management. It Takes a Village. It has density,” he said.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Apps World North America will be taking place in the tech capital of the world San Francisco on February 5th-6th February at the Moscone Center.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

If managed improperly, you’re unnecessarily risking lawsuits and worse. Time management is critical – I’m naturally awful at personal time management. You don’t need funding. And if you “fail,&# all you’ve lost is time. Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. So having done so many live webinars, demos, onboarding trainings for a consistent five years, sometimes five back to back for my previous company, I had just dreamt of a product, a magical product that would do my job for me.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Ive written previously about Right Side Capital Management (RCSM) , the latest in my post earlier this year, " How Much Diligence is Due. " (Full disclosure: I am an investor and adviser in RCSM.) Are DEMO's days numbered? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News. ► 2010. (7).

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

About three months ago, a friend and I started Credential Cabinet , a service to help professionals manage their credentials and continuing education credits. In contrast, an incubator program doesn’t have a predetermined end, so there is no demo day like an accelerator, and they may or may not take equity or offer capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. an investment in your company. This is where most founders err.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. Venture News.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? This human touch can be as light as email follow ups, or as much as inside sales people doing multiple sales calls and demos. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question.

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