Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. We made changes and Greg was a gentleman throughout the process rather than berating us for our performance (it was our first partners’ meeting).

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

Donors, volunteers, and partners support nonprofits because of their missions. Setting ESG standards for operations is a natural fit for nonprofits in light of their missions. Your mission and your reputation are everything; Losing the trust of your donors, partners, and employees takes a long time to repair.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

With two successful accelerators under our belts, we’ve proven that going back to basics with smaller cohort sizes and zero demo days works. I liked that there was no organized demo day at the end of the program.” – Lillian, ShelfLife. “I The journey of every startup is so different. I loved that it was such a small cohort.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

Smarter operations: big data analytics, robotic processes and smart contracting to optimise business operations. Future cargo logistics: shipping analytics, asset tracking, and measurement and monitoring tools to optimise cargo operations. Opportunity to pitch at Hangar 51 Demo Day. 14th December 2018 – DEMO DAY.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

The NextView Accelerator Doesn’t Operate in Strict Cohorts. . Most accelerators operate in class cohort “batches.” When the point of the program is a Demo Day show at the end, all of the participating companies need to be in lock-step. all designed to scale, it requires a logistical effort with a rigid timeline.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mission-driven organizations are inherently adept at doing more with less, but AI has the potential to further enhance their efficiency, improve operations, and reduce costs — allowing these organizations to be a greater force for social good. Take time to explore and identify the right AI partners and tools.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I had come from a world where I was nearly a partner at Accenture before starting my first company. million and we seemed likely to raise another $40 million within the first 18 months of operations. Even better if he/she can double as a VP Operations & HR. Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5

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Board Effect

AUGUST 28, 2023

Higher Employee Morale and Engagement: When employees feel that their organization operates ethically, they are more likely to feel proud of their work and committed to the organization’s mission. Contact BoardEffect to see a demo of the system today! This, in turn, boosts morale and increases overall employee engagement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] And that's because you're just operating on different scales and you need to focus on different things. We have demo days. We do all these things.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Here’s their demo day pitch. I served on the board of directors until the IPO, and during that time we were able to recruit great firms like Foundry Group, SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. We also pushed hard to make sure consumers got the service they loved.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

James Doman-Pipe , senior product marketing manager at Remote, has learned that “Product marketers cannot operate in silos and must integrate across the business to have the standing required to really drive change.”. They are also humans with needs, and product marketers working in B2B should keep that in mind. Integrate across the business.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 23, 2016

My main interest was learning how the tech industry actually operates, and journalism let me contribute to a public good and spend time with incredibly smart people in tech. 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

For innovation to succeed inside of a large company, you need a parallel set of processes, not to replace the existing ones, but to operate on a fast track. So, if you think about how a large company can innovate, they could build, they could buy, they could partner, they could license. What prompted these insights? They invent things.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

It could be a new partner willing to work for stock. Which of your business operations do you hate? Enjoy product demos but hate cold-calls? Part of why you're in business for yourself is creating something from scratch and delighting customers, but the fact is that most business operations just suck.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 4, 2020

As restaurant, grocery, convenience, and other foodservice operators respond to the coronavirus outbreak, operators are doing everything they can to help keep staff and customers safe. You can see a demo here and sign up here. Learn more about it here. . Placenote is offering early access to their Spatial Studio.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Ready to start simplifying? The last two are pretty basic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things.

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor attending Demo Day to assess project maturity or quantify risks.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 28, 2016

At Lightspeed Venture Partners, I have the privilege to coach our portfolio startups on their go-to-market strategies and connect them with CXOs from Fortune 1000 enterprises. Preparation is arguably the most important part of the sales pitch, yet many salespeople stumble out of the gate and effectively lose the sale before getting to a demo.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. It can involve traveling hundreds of miles and can consume months of time and loads of money.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The class aimed to mimic the uncertainty all startups face as they search for a business model while imparting an understanding of all the components of a business model, not just how to give a pitch or a demo. One of the goals of the class is to talk to 100 customers and partners. The Syllabus.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. 12:25] Who are some companies that you think are using AI really well in their marketing or operations? [13:39] There you go, AI for content strategy, go Google it, find three tools that do it, go demo those tools.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Extensive prep work on product, messaging, lead gen, demos, and scheduling specific meetings starts months ahead of an action-oriented conference. Just anticipate that time is perhaps the most critical dimension when you choose to engage with a “make the company” partner.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development. Up to 15 teams who can do this can win $10,000.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development. Up to 15 teams who can do this can win $10,000.

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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. Turkana is home to Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with over 200,000 residents and where we have been operating since October. You are based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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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. Dog Patch Labs – Shared workspace operated by Polaris Ventures. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod). The Grand-daddy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ? ” Udemy. Learn how to market and brand your small business ? Master leadership skills ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

Demos and prototypes are key. Professional investors love to see contributed funds from all sources, but they are wary of startups operated by family and friends. The stress and skills required to build a startup break up too many prior relationships, so key roles should be limited to partners with skills and experience.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

I know, you really really want to ignore me and operate in secret. Michael Shraybman I would add one more tip: leverage a trusted outsourcing partner for turning your concept into reality, there are a number of companies that focus on providing services to startups or entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

They ran 10 in-store demos, which got them talking to 100s of more customers. Take a look through the slides below and see how their business model evolved with feedback from customers, channels and partners. Hershey plans to operate Krave as a standalone business within its Hershey North America division.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2013

“Recruitment is an evergreen industry but it is also ripe for disruption,” shares Shirley Wong, managing partner at TNF Ventures. TribeHired currently operates in Singapore and Malaysia but is expected to launch internationally soon.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). Action : If you’re building a web site: Small portion of your site should be operational on the web. Action : What partners will you need?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ? ” Udemy. Learn how to market and brand your small business ? Master leadership skills ?

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