TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

They’ll have plenty of insight and advice to share, including the challenges that startup founders will face as they break into the transportation arena. Taking your team also makes you a highly efficient networking unit. Schedule virtual product demos, pitch investors or recruit new talent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

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. The Family was originally founded in 2012 with three co-founders — Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar and Nicolas Colin.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the last six months alone, we’ve rewritten our entire Demo Day experience (to connect founders with potential investors), re-created the batch experience with both in-house tools and 3rd party integrations, and written software to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and so much more.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. From 2016 to 2022 In its inception year itself, KSGC received an overwhelming response.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2023

Exhibitor booths are multipurpose in Hopin: our customers use them for engaging attendees through live demos, watching videos, reading posters, generating leads, and more. Sell special networking opportunities. Free download: How to Deliver 6-Figure Value to Virtual Event Sponsors ‍ 3. Sell online event exhibitor booths.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

There is so much great advice out there these days for anyone who is about to start their own startup, but there are three things I tell people. Use your network, ask for feedback and advice, and make sure that you invest in getting the right people onboard, especially in the early days. Thank you so much for joining us!

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge , a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why “ women-owned startups are a better bet ”. Note that none of the lawyers quoted or I are rendering legal advice in this article, and you should not rely on our counsel herein for your own decisions. I am not a lawyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. Startup Advice' inside insight into VC decision-making. Congratulations, Jordan.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

The program supports startups financially and gives them multiple opportunities to network with top tech companies, VCs, mentors, etc. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. One of them is access to mentors and great networking. Besides the 3.5-month

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

Just take how most people approach networking events and talks. One event organizer had even asked me if I wanted to give my talk before the company demos, enabling me to duck out before the crowds could rush me. They spend more time networking with other VCs than helping entrepreneurs they haven't even funded yet. Take pitches?

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She has been a thought-leader in tech for the past 8 years, her newsletter has 25k subscribers, she was named one of Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 , and she has spoken at numerous panels including at TechCrunch Disrupt, L’Attitude, NFT NYC, and a16z’s Google’s demo day at LA Tech Week 2023. Personal Instagram: [link] Alphaa.io

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

Think of outreach like networking: You’re introducing yourself to people who either are in your target audience or are speaking to your target audience. After publishing the content, we managed to triple our organic traffic quarter-over-quarter and got the first demo call scheduled. This approach turns your website into a magnet.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. 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. So we went for it.

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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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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

July 13th online: Labs/02 Startup Demo Day. The company has integrated a disease management feature into its platform that can track key fungal diseases on over 320 crop and fungal disease combinations, and offers advice on when to spray. Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved. Learn More.

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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. Some paths to win consulting work: Join the major expert networks (e.g.,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. With players like Zynga and Playdom earning nine-fugure millions of dollars it’s clear that there is big money in monetizing social networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. And I accept that anonymity is inevitable on the Internet.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

In the last six months alone, we’ve rewritten our entire Demo Day experience (to connect founders with potential investors), re-created the batch experience with both in-house tools and 3rd party integrations, and written software to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and so much more.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you want to see how this works come check out our Nov 10th event in LA and you can see TextPlus demo their iOS5 integration and how they think about the importance of working hand-in-hand with Twitter for their free text messaging apps. Object Communications. Consider some simple examples.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 8, 2021

Work on everything from our Demo Day experience, internal financial systems and tools to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and more. Product Engineer – Y Combinator : Join a small-but-mighty software team that builds the OS that runs all of YC.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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.

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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? What: The foundational corporate formation, governance, equity issuance and intellectual property assignment documents.

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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. Adrian’s Network. LeadHERShip Network. Smart Hustle Nation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

While she is opening up a $5 million allocation to accredited investors outside her network, she said from a portfolio construction standpoint: she’s not necessarily looking for “diamonds in the rough” or a specific diversity quota. “I Amazing advice for anyone who is a student or just … new. Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital raised $2.1

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. A live demo of the product is essential. You may have to give up to 100 presentations – so condense your message. Prove what the pain point is and how your product can solve it.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Snippets of advice, tactics, and tools I used to raise an oversubscribed round during an economic downturn Image: Author I’m writing this blog post on the heels of closing our oversubscribed round during what’s been described as the worst time in history to raise capital. Let’s start with the tools we used at Supademo: Canva and Journey.io

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For instance, block off time to send off email sequences, post on socials, reach out to your network on LinkedIn, etc. An interactive demo helps you do just that. Next, use your calendar to time block specific tactics you’ll deploy throughout the day. This way, you don’t get surprised by GPT5 launching on the same day.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. Adora Cheung [38:24] – Having a strong peer network is so important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. You can say something like, “I was thinking that you might cover a story like, ‘why today’s mobile ad networks don’t benefit most application companies’ and then work me into that story line.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, social networks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves? Tags: Start-up Advice. This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2021

“Most of the startups I give advice to about how to raise venture capital shouldn’t be raising venture capital,” an investor recently told me. The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence. Found, a new podcast joining the TechCrunch network, has officially launched! Image Credits: Nigel Sussman.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks. At Early Stage, experts will share advice on protecting intellectual property, structuring cap tables, developing target customer personas and more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

For over a decade, Biggar says, he has been an active participant in Bookface, recently helping multiple companies with financial and relationship advice on co-founder break-ups. That meant he was being removed not just from Bookface, says Biggar, but he is no longer invited to Demo Day or allowed on YC Slack.

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