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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc.

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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Flashpoint New York Demo Day, Friday, June 14

David Teten

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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Flashpoint New York Demo Day, Friday, June 14

David Teten

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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DEMO Report: Startup Creativity Through Variety

ReadWriteStart

And as with many other startups debuting at DEMO, it's not clear how Knoema will make money. It's one of those businesses where there could be a very good premium model," Ping Li, partner at Accel Partners , offered hopefully.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. In some cases the accelerator provides initial funding themselves.)