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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations.

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Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation

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In my post I noted the bias in his accent comments and also called b t on his statements that Demo Days are great because “the bad companies look good” and that VCs should compete to “pay the highest price & offer the best terms.” Startup Advice' They know how much opportunity we afford them. Thank you, Om.

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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

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They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. The reason for “b&# is that most early stage companies survive on “evangelical sales&# as in when you’re having to educate the customer on something new and different and get them to take a leap of faith. They’re always on time.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. So I promised the guys that I would come and hang out with companies well before their demo days. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. I can’t really change it because we had a super long lease. We’ll see.

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Parthean cares about personal finance so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. Hezarkhani’s early energy brought him to Carnegie Mellon, where he studied electrical and computer engineering, and Google, where he spent time on developer programs and Google for Education.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

TechCrunch

They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day. In exchange for a stake, they could get advice from The Family’s team and network with other people in the community. Over time, The Family diversified its activities with an education business and a digital transformation business.

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B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.