Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Right here. 1) Your school. school of engineering).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Through the Gable portal, employees can search for and book a spot at a locally available workspace in 26 different countries and employers can manage payments. The portal doesn’t just show which nearby workspaces in a company’s budget have available slots — it also indicates if colleagues are booked in to work there, too.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Your product must: Have key security solutions or applications used by the firm Have APIs that can be used to integrate with homegrown tools Support industry standards that are applicable to your product category. Demo or mock data is better than no data. Additionally, make sure your product meets essential requirements.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Hashable is saving very important information for its users and creating a multipurpose address book of the people its users interact with. Thank you, John. Part 1/3 of Interview: The Beginnings of Mike’s Entrepreneurial Journey [ Minutes: start – 13 ].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Schedule and host livestream product demos, tutorials or Q&A sessions. Read more about the business development support you’ll receive as part of Startup Alley+. Exhibiting in Startup Alley is one big boatload of opportunity and time’s running out to book passage. But don’t stop there.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

There are many good books on this subject, and you owe it to yourself to read at least one of them before you begin talking to angels. With #1 – #3 under your belt, you should start preparing the components you will use to support your pitch to outside investors. Your goal in all this is to try to find a lead investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

” Similarly, she suggested that demo day remains an “open question,” as an extended period of investor meetings seems to be driving more fundraising for the startups. Hiitide (Chicago) — A marketplace that turns books into virtual book clubs and courses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

million seed round before Demo Day. Our target is to go for IPO by 2024 and achieve one billion services booked, and this requires a lot of network effects, infrastructure and technology,” the CEO said. “We Then for the suppliers, it increases their sales and reaches more customers without necessarily spending on marketing.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In Singapore, a global expansion base, Kim organized a Demo Day event for the companies in his portfolio looking to expand internationally. Investment Philosophy Enlight Ventures, under the stewardship of Kim, is known for its comprehensive support for startups. Kim finds solace in reading specialized books to expand his knowledge.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

She also explains the importance of her family, her new book, the Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network, and her advice to entrepreneurs both young and old. They are always supportive. Utilizing support. Mikaila has been smart about utilizing the support available to her in her business journey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

CEO and co-founder Alex Wang credits their success since founding, which includes raising over $277 million and achieving break-even status in terms of revenue, to early support from investors including Accel’s Dan Levine.

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 31, 2023

This innovative approach to ghostwriting involves our writers conducting in-depth interviews with clients, fully capturing their unique voice and vision for their books. Additionally, it has distinguished us in the book writing and publishing industry, bolstering our brand reputation.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The answer to the original question, therefore, is that an entrepreneur should use Gust as a set of powerful tools to organize, support and smooth the fundraising process, rather than expecting it to be a magic bullet. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1. ZOKO is helping businesses do sales, marketing, and customer support on WhatsApp. Users can book appointments, chat with the doctor, pay and refer friends on WhatsApp. Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 2.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

tells TechCrunch that the capital, which brings PolyAI’s total raised to $70 million and values the company at nearly $300 million post-money, will be put toward supporting the company’s go-to-market efforts as PolyAI ramps up customer acquisition. CEO Nikola Mrkši? PolyAI’s founders — Mrkši?,

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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. Using CRM integrations , you can sync these leads, qualify, and send them over to your sales team to book meetings.‍ Sell online event exhibitor booths.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prominent investors include a slew of a16z partners such as Marc Andreessen, Andrew Chen and Chris Dixon, as well as entrepreneur Ev Williams, icon Paris Hilton and support from investors Ryan Hoover and Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst. Book your pass ASAP! She’s already landed checks from the who’s who in tech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

million in venture capital toward Poly at Y Combinator’s demo day in September. Copyright Office recently ended copyright protection for a comic book created with generative AI after initially granting it, saying that only works created by humans are entitled to protection. ” Image Credits: Poly.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). WCD (Women Corporate DIrectors) is “the world’s largest membership organization and community of women corporate board directors”, supporting its members in “connecting with peers and advancing visionary corporate governance”. Private Equity. Venture Capital. Pratt’s Guide .

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The firm’s end-to-end services including program structuring, startup sourcing, startup interviews and selection, mentor recruitment, organising masterclasses, business matching, coaching, day-to-day operations, startup fundraising support, and organising demo days. Sustainability is definitely an area to look at.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Founder and CEO Sebastian Spiegler, an early (former) SwiftKey employee with a PhD in machine learning and natural language processing, walked TechCrunch through a demo of the current prototype. Voice search will also be supported. “Keyword search is fundamentally broken,” argues Spiegler.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

For those that don’t know, the title of this post is a play on the book Barbarians at the Gate , by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, which chronicles the battle to buy RJR Nabisco in 1988.) Can costs be reduced, customer support improved, NPS increased, new, previously unprofitable sales opportunities be unlocked?

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

To do this, independent retailers will need tools to support their growth in a world that has moved online. The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. Independent retailers are further buoyed by the fact that consumers increasingly want to support their local businesses whenever possible.

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Dream It

JUNE 2, 2021

Think critically about how your deck flows, whether or not your story holds together, and what core components must be consistent to support the story your deck is telling. Drip in traction to demonstrate credibility So you start telling your story and you go through your slides like the “chapters” of a book. It’s time for your demo.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Buyers pay companies a lot of money to solve their business problems, and expect those companies to make it easy to use their products through value-added services and support. minimize integrations and setup needed for customers to try the product Marketing ?—?create That’s why Customer Success is so critical.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

YC Demo Day(s) happened this past week , and fellow fintech reporter and Equity Podcast co-host Natasha Mascarenhas brilliantly led editorial coverage of the event. It’s determining scores as part of a partnership with ESG Book and will use a traffic-light system, with assets labeled as green, amber or red based on their overall ESG rating.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In many cases, based on our interactions with thousands of founders in the Draftbit Community , success seems to come down to how well they enlist the support of those first mobile app users. Lots of great mobile apps thrive and take off, and lots of great mobile apps never get off the ground. Put down the build tools! your final product.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

She’s also an inventor with 120 patents and the author of the bestselling book Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! Tv shopping : This is when you’re on the air live with a host and you can demo your products for customers. She even wrote a book about it because so many people were asking her this question.

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OnStartups

MARCH 21, 2016

In Robert Cialdini’s book Influence , he recounts an eternally relevant A/B test from the retail world staged in 1975. There’s evidence to support this from the famous red/green A/B test carried out by Performable, which showed a 21% higher CTR on the red button which contrasted with the otherwise green page. Request a demo (6%).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution.

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Continuations

JULY 27, 2020

One obvious example would be customer support. I am not suggesting that anyone should send out GPT-3 produced answers without checking them first, but the number of customer support requests that someone might be able to handle using GPT-3 could go up tremendously. A customer writes in and someone needs to write an answer.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. 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.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

47:40 – What’s a must read book and why? I don’t know where, but in another interview, and you said you don’t really want to scale customer support, because it’s unsustainable. We were one of the few companies after YC who did not raise a lot of money on demo day. We were struggling to make money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Sure, it’s demo day week over at Y Combinator , but that doesn’t mean we have to only discuss the smallest and youngest startups out there. The company sits in an interesting market segment (remote employee support) and most recently raised $300 million against a valuation of more than $3 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the vertiport demo, Volocopter also displayed its branded VoloIQ digital platform, which the startup says supports everything from booking to managing flight operations, and will help support the scaling up of AAM in cities around the world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

That’s because customers get support along the way, including help developing a test plan, writing and maintaining tests, investigating failures, and reporting bugs. Perl was previously the head of technology at home service booking platform Dispatch and the CTO of pharmacy supply chain firm Zipdrug.

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