Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. It’s different when you’re co-founders and one person gets the title COO.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Are DEMOs days numbered? Has DEMO lost its luster and relevance in 2010? DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences. You can always check out the current and prior product demos at the DEMO site. It was the 15th anniversary and they made a big deal branding the event as Demo@15. Steve Bennet.

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Steve Blank

JULY 24, 2012

A year later my co-founders and I had formed Epiphany. As other startups were quickly automating all the department of large corporations (SAP-manufacturing, Oracle-finance, Siebel and Onyx-Sales) our first thought was that our company was going to automate enterprise-marketing departments. I Know A Great Customer.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Fundraising isn’t easy for most founders. No longer are founders being asked to drive up and down Sand Hill Road, meet in small coffee shops throughout SF or NYC, or spend a meaningful amount of money getting around to all of these meetings. Don’t interrupt your co-founder or the investor. Know when to stop talking.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. After Office 2.0

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! 16th floor Register: Sign up here Thursday, March 8 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella getting a demo of Senseye in the kitchen at Capital Factory. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

For more on what I’m seeking, see The 8 characteristics of the perfect startup team and Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public. See Should you co-found a company with your friend? We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. How do you envision we work together?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. Add this new model to the mix.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Half of these startups will demo their talents on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 on Sunday, March 11. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

For more on what I’m seeking, see The 8 characteristics of the perfect startup team ; Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public ; New Report Identifies Key Characteristics Of Successful Startup Entrepreneurs. See Should you co-found a company with your friend? And how do you split the equity?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Of particular note to small business owners are courses covering small business management and strategy, marketing, and finance. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. Enjoy product demos but hate cold-calls?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. WorkBar Boston - Flexible co-working space near South Station.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. The Grand-daddy.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Of particular note to small business owners are courses covering small business management and strategy, marketing, and finance. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ?

Programming 48

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) 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. Demo’d to death. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. identify financing vehicles before you need them. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2017

by Owen McGab Enaohwo, CEO and Co-Founder of SweetProcess. Many systems offer free demos; it’s well worth taking advantage of this. Owen McGab Enaohwo is the CEO and Co-Founder of business process management software, SweetProcess which was founded in 2013. Does it offer the workflow flexibility you need?

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 9, 2022

” So I was intrigued when I saw a new way of doing all-hands meetings published by my friend Daniel Odio (DROdio) on his founder community called FounderCulture. Swim Lane Updates : Each we, we ask one or two of our functional or project areas to do a deep dive update — Product, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Ops, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. Any heavily regulated industry, you know, if you're working in finance and insurance and technology, you know, there's a big risk factor there.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

Moreover, the company’s co-founder and CEO Gerald Youngblood was part of a panel titled “ ON-DEMAND: Gaming and The Most Connected Generation, Ever.” This Austin-based startup won the Entertainment & Content category at SXSW Pitch. They also exhibited at the SXSW EDU Expo as well as the SXSW Gaming Expo.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

We brief our major investors quarterly and decided to model our LP meeting after what “big funds” do, albeit with a few Homebrew flourishes :) Logistically this meant an afternoon session with presentations/Q&A then a dinner with founders/advisors. We love our founders. Roughly 50% result in a first meeting.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. The VP of Marketing who a year earlier had wanted a hard copy of our slides.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

Bootstrapped, lean and already providing (in a small way at least) for the needs of my family and that of my co-founder. By the time demo day came around, we had cheques being written and were all over the press. Business Planning Finance business accelerator failure startup tech'

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2015

It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. One time, I spoke at a meetup that was divided into my talk and demos--and the organizer assumed I wanted to go on before the demos. Well, I guess I''m not surprised.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far? Now I have.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. My long time friend and co-angel investor Will Herman wrote a post titled Angel Investing that summarized some of his advice. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I’m Hannah, founder and CEO at Babbler. We knew we would solve the problem faster by having access to the Techstars network and accelerator program (5000+ founders, mentors and investors worldwide) Learn how to scale our business and automate sales and csm by exporting our SaaS in a foreign and huge market: the US.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those readers not already familiar with this concept, it refers to the bottleneck for Series A financing created by the increasing number of seed financings and constant number of Series A financings. in seed financing? Alas, we survived 12/21 and looks like we will have to get back to work in 2013. HELL YES!!!

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VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2023

It’s To get a sense of how it works you can try this demo on AgentGPT. Take a look at this demo video: How does AutoGPT work? Manage finances and save money I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4 (via the @donotpay chat we are building).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. WorkBar Boston - Flexible co-working space near South Station.

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