AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. Besides, the top 30 teams got $11,136 through a Settlement program.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. And then we do score ourselves with the board, but also with the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. No less than Oprah Winfrey endorsed it and Stephen Colbert & Fred Wilson are both on the board. I’m investing heavily in Internet video. Americans watch 5.3 hours of television / day – many age groups are even more. Full stop.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Jai Malik, Venture Partner at Republic and ex-corporate Scout for Tata Communications, shares advice on becoming a Scout: “ I think the most important thing they saw was that I was open to learning whatever it took to get the job done. Offer career advice. I think that’s pretty standard with other positions. PwC’s Talent Exchange ).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. But if you’re a concentrated investor who takes board seats then you know the hard bit starts the day after. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

When meeting with early stage entrepreneurs for the first time, after reviewing a demo or hearing their pitch, I often ask them to articulate what they’re most focused on building. What is a startup really? I’ve written extensively on these subjects, as have other lawyers, notably Yokum Taku and Scott Edward Walker.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Especially in specific fields like B2B marketing and sales, it can be incredibly valuable to connect with peers in similar positions, swap advice and even vent about frustrations. trying to push demos), the manager will take down their posts and flag them. If someone starts interacting with the rest of the group in a salesy way (e.g.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Ice Angels chair Michael Murphy liked what StockTrim were doing and was happy to become chair of StockTrim’s board of directors and become one of the first investors. “He A live demo of the product is essential. I found 20 different opinions on what should be in our deck and none of them were either right or wrong.”.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the If you had to share “words of wisdom” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. You have to go back to the drawing board and understand, why are people calling me, right? Vidit Aatrey [27:50] – Over time they also came on board.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. There is nothing that will focus the mind more than not wanting to be on stage with a demo that bombs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Last week, though, the outside world got a look at how Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s most famed and feared accelerators, deals with the intricacies of a scaled, yet still ultra-exclusive, community after the accelerator kicked out two founders from its internal messaging board, Bookface. lol just got kicked out of @ycombinator.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2019

Taking board seats? Want to only invest in diverse boards? He demoed the product to me and I wound up being dollars #476 and #477 to be swiped on the very first Square prototype. Build up your model of what you think the individual financial outcomes will be over time—layer that on with follow-on decisions, fees, carry, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. But in the end they know how to put the big wins on the board. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice. They set up “ tickler &# lists to remind them of calls and they always make the calls they say they are going to make.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. For example, I highly recommend a set of board metrics that the CEO communicates to board members at every meeting. With a set of metrics the board can keep know whether the company is tracking to its objectives.

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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". I think Fred was trying to offer some friendly advice to young investors that you're going to "take lumps" and that it's worth learning from those who are more experienced.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

On the former I mentioned a video that I shot for This Week in VC talking about how Farb Nivi solved this problem: “Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit. if you need advice on how to find / work with startup lawyers cheaply click that link). He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Qualifications and roles of the top three executives and top three on your Board of Advisors. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes.

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Hunter Walk

JULY 11, 2022

80–90% of startups shouldn’t follow the advice I’m about to give. An engineer and designer from the company work with him to build a demo. Once done, the exec team and board will take a look and make a decision. Why Some Smart Startups Are Putting (Paid) Projects Ahead of Employment Offers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Women can join groups, ask questions, and get advice, or even join live audio conversations hosted by experts, through Peanut’s newer live audio rooms feature, Peanut Pods. In fact, on a recent phone call, Kennedy said one investor seemed dismayed about the expansion, noting they had really loved “the younger age demo.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

That’s why product demo webinars are so effective at maximizing conversion rates. Perhaps you have to adjust your product or even go back to the drawing board. Failure to earn the trust of your prospects kills sales conversions. Webinars, with all their features, offer the opportunity to show how a product works in real time.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There’s an old adage that says, “ask for money and you’ll get advice; ask for advice and you might get money.” Besides social media, online forums, discussion boards and message groups are good places to ideate and iterate with like minds. But how do you do that? At the beginning, don’t think about selling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. Just jump into the demo after intros.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Some readers have commented that in today’s world you shouldn’t even need a PowerPoint presentation – in this era you should always just demo your product. I also recently wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Act III – The Demo.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

I often see people write to many people at once asking for help as in a CEO writing to a board saying, “can anybody help me with an intro to Google” or “can you please review this list of potential next round investors and give me your feedback?” Write to one person at a time. It’s called ToutApp.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I knew it sounded like a good crowd but I was on the road constantly with fund raising and board meetings so I politely declined. Plus I had already committed to 2 European trips (one fund raising, one a DataSift board meeting) and neither coincided with his event. Startup Advice' Paddy never stopped. But it’s a long way.

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