TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Electrical engineers have been designing custom circuit boards on computers for years, but this approach simply moved the paper and pencil method to digital. Jitx , a startup from three Berkeley alumni, recognized that the digital approach to board design hadn’t changed much and they saw an opening. Image Credits: Jitx.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. But it seemed to work.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. In addition to high-level conferences, where else can you meet CEOs? Look for CEO roundtables and forums. None in your area? Consider starting one. Fellow alumni may be running their own businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. Arcade , a startup launched by two former Atlassian employees, decided to attack this problem with a simple Chrome extension to build demos quickly that product people can make use of in various settings. million in total seed investment.

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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.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. The best thing they can do is get on board early in the right way. There are a lot of parallels here to Web 2.0 and the earliest emergence of UGC.

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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". An experienced entrepreneur who has raised money multiple times can be a great board member as well. Of course, you don't always need that experience from a VC.

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Dream It

JANUARY 8, 2020

You can do so by providing a demo you did for a customer or a patent. Ron advises not to stray away from the core message by including items such as a list of advisers and board members, biographies of the founders, or competition slides. Ron advises to be direct, own your solution, what data it works on, and how it is deployed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. One is reminded of the famous quote often attributed Mark Twain. ” **.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day. But TechCrunch reporters spend a lot of time talking with startups, hearing pitches and telling their stories; if you’re curious about which companies stood out from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day, read on. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 31, 2013

You''ve been to demo days and pitch meetups and read Techcrunch and Mashable about product launches. If we raise, the head of marketing from the Ab Rollee has agreed to come on board.". The average partner at a VC firm probably meets with at least two or three companies a day. That''s like 40-60 companies a month. Come, on, seriously.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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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. They set up “ tickler &# lists to remind them of calls and they always make the calls they say they are going to make. They’re always on time. They’re unmanageable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2023

Now, just a few months later, OpenAI has upgraded from GPT-3 to GPT-4, a far more powerful AI model ( see demo ). Contributed by Robert Glazer , a former EO Boston member who is the founder and chairman of the board of Acceleration Partners , a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Moreover, because of his investor relationships, YC has immense momentum around Demo Day. Paul has been able to create (and transfer to the companies in YC) a valuable, and unmatched brand. Unfortunately, that’s really not the case for most startups.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas. So we’ve also eliminated these high-end production demo days, the big events. James Burnes: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Schedule and host livestream product demos, tutorials or Q&A sessions. Exposure, practice and invaluable feedback from the pitch-savvy TC crew — jump on board that opportunity. Every exhibiting startup gets a virtual booth where you can post a company video and links to your website and social media accounts. But don’t stop there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. “Christine had been on our technical board of advisors for quite some time,” he said. “Both of our teams really meshed well together. .”

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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. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.&#.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

Start with a hard sell to get others on board. To accomplish this, consider creating a recurring demo-day specifically for sharing surprising user insights rather than merely celebrating the launch of new, but perhaps unvalidated, products and features. To succeed in a reorganization, companies should consider these key steps: 1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

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. Here is also a good place for a rollout timeline with key milestones. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Executive team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

We’re thrilled to have her on board. Each startup team gets six minutes to pitch and present their demo — and then they’ll answer probing questions from the judges. Teams that move on to the final round do it all over again in front of a new panel of experts… one last major push — pitch, demo, Q&A.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines “traditional compute IP” from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect, To lay the groundwork for future growth, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

According to Clayton Bryan, partner and head of 500 Global’s accelerator fund, demo days are still key for founders and investors, even if they’re now held virtually. 3 guiding FinOps principles that will help you explain cloud costs to the board. . 3 guiding FinOps principles that will help you explain cloud costs to the board.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Time to get on board: It costs less than $100 to attend TechCrunch Disrupt until this Monday. All Startup Alley exhibitors have their own virtual booth where you can check out their pitch deck, strike up a conversation, schedule a product demo or connect with them via CrunchMatch to set up 1:1 video meetings.

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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr saw a limited demo and said he “could see where it will be of value in the area of world creation at modest budgets. With their advisory board, it would be hard to make a mistake without someone calling them on it. Wonder Dynamics is very secretive about what exactly its tools do.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

In many cases, that initial contact happens through an online form—whether it's a "Get Help" form, a "Request a Demo" form, or something similar. If you're working in a fast-paced environment, keeping on top of your project management board or to-do list can sometimes feel like the most challenging part of your job.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2024

to get their desired solution in house IF the vendor can demo a use case that actually works. Some companies are closing deals in <90 days with no demo…there is some impressive selling going on. Most customers will waive or streamline security review, procurement processes, etc.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

You’ll find dozens of articles on keeping your deck to 10 slides or how you must have a board of advisers slide, but we base our thesis on some more tangible examples. Mainly the demo day deck, the email deck and the meeting deck. Demo Day pitch. Using a demo-day (non-self-explanatory) deck to send via email.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 27, 2022

OurCrowd First Israeli Company to Partner With the Singapore Economic Development Board in the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Programme. This collaboration includes a series of in-person meeetings and virtual programmes including curated networking sessions and bespoke demo days. June 27, 2022 09:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

What’s more, you can easily share this collaborative board with your colleagues through a link. If you don’t want anyone to change the board, you can also share a read-only link. Demo of the Perfect Freehand project. To use all these features, you don’t need any account or login. Image Credits: TLDraw.

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