YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Adams, authors of “ Venture Capital For Dummies ® “ You’ve managed to get the attention of well-established venture capitalists. Or maybe your projected earnings were reasonable, but your product demo went horribly wrong. If you’re not ready for venture capital, you have other options.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Startup founders will work with Google engineers and receive mentoring from over 20 teams at Google, as well as outside experts and local mentors. Notley Ventures. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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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. Business Model.

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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. SUNY Global Center , 116 East 55th St.

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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. If you’re a first-time founder, here’s our advice for scaling your team effectively. Pick co-founders that you know you work well with. Takeaways: .

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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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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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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! Date: Tuesday, March 6 Time: 4:45pm to 7:15pm Location: Capital Factory?—?16th Can capitalism fulfill its promise to create a shared and durable prosperity for all of us?

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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.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A version of this article – co-authored with Raj Shah and Joe Felter – previously appeared in The National Interest. The takedown of Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba and Ant Group, is a warning shot to every Chinese CEO that regardless of a company’s size, the party and government are back in control. and Western company.

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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. Co-founder discontent. You have to deal with CEOs who resign. Motives matter.

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER.

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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. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) We must have made them play the demo twenty times. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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David Teten

JUNE 16, 2011

Startups: Soraya Darabi – Co-Founder @ foodspotting.com. Chris Mirabile – Co-Founder & CEO @ TheHotList.com. David Rostan – Founder and CEO @ Umagram.com. Patrick Questembert – Founder and CEO @ ScanBizCards.com. 6:40 PM – 6:50 PM – foodspotting.com (demo only).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

Yesterday, author Dan Heath took time out of his launch day to spend some time with me and answered some questions about his new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work , co-authored with his brother Chip. So if you put yourself in the PayPal founders’ shoes, you start thinking “Yes, we could shift. What do we do?

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Several weeks after Zuckerberg and the team move to Palo Alto for the summer, co-founder Eduardo Saverin finally pays a visit. Also, be sure to include vesting for all founders. Are DEMO's days numbered?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . 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. . Hopefully we will see you there! Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) But my point is that I flipped burgers from day 1.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I think I just really feared working for the Man.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. She is the co-founder and CEO of E webinar. Melissa Kwan (12:26): So you can imagine in the past six months I've ran my demo. This is John Jantsch.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

See Also: Venture Capital Funding: A Curated List of Our Best Resources. Securing startup capital: A brutal experience that drags on and on. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want? The danger zone: Answering questions after the pitch.

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Jason Ball

JULY 6, 2014

Looking at my Three P’s of Venture Capital : People: The team at Grand Cru has enough successes behind them to warrant an investment on their own: Markus Pasula (ex Mr Goodliving) and Mikko Wilkman (ex Habbo Hotel) are two of the co-founders behind the company (and the ones I interacted with the most during the investment process).

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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. Venture Capital & Technology'

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. See the Soho OS video demo below. The round will include participation from existing investors including Benchmark Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, and Cisco Systems.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2011

From the Pui-Wing Tam of the WSJ (sub required): But StartX, which began last year, is the first time there has been a physical co-working space and a formal hands-on program with resources ranging from free legal advice to computer-server infrastructure for students, say Stanford faculty. via American Free Enterprise.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We'll talk to experts across the industry, including chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Glenn Roberts, founder of Anson Mills, marketing whizzes from Rooster Design Group, and writer and Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link].

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And then go to a demo-day and stay past midnight listening to more pitches, empathizing with entrepreneurs about how hard it is to start a company. Negotiate a $20 million pre-money with a 19-year-old founder CEO. He is the author of “The Business of Venture Capital”, and co-author (with Brad Feld) of “Startup Boards”.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Have a loud product demo; give away pieces of candy; hire a masseuse and offer free back rubs. Key Influencers Does the company have press/industry analysts scheduled for demos? Does the company have demos or dinners/lunch scheduled for key industry influencers? Is the company hosting/co-sponsoring some event?

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. He calls this “the secret of the market.”.

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