American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

To support this vision, StackOne is building a dynamic AI developer community. Initiatives such as AI Demo Days and open-source contributions are helping foster collaboration among researchers, builders, and infrastructure teams.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

I want to build expertise, community, and leadership around “AI design” (in both using AI for design, and designing for AI). Meet the Designer Helping AI Startups Go from Demo to Daily Use was originally published in SuperWarm on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But now, when I demo the platform, you can see their eyes light up. They realize that Grapevine is the key to unlocking better optimization of knowledge management, enhanced employee engagement, and seamless communication. What’s also exciting is seeing that lightbulb moment when people get it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Community recognition. 5,000USD cash plus your choice of a 60-minute AI audit with Zapier experts or a co‑hosted community meetup. Non-Profit Automator of the Year : Celebrating a change-maker who has amplified impact and community outcomes with smart automation. More perks.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

What Gravity Forms lacks in pre-built templates, it makes up for with a vast library of official , certified , and community add-ons that extend the functionality in countless ways. You can even preview the demos before deciding which one to use.) Plus, there's an AI form builder to help you create forms quickly and easily.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., Improve your real estate business with automation Automate your CRM But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? ​​I

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

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. Closing line: “FitOrbit is an online community for the $2.4 Where you planning to demo?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. They want you to attend demo days. start-ups are overvalued… The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s exhausting.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs. Fewer demos this time. Bootstrapping a community from zero users.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.” These are the crowds, when brought together in a critical mass, push the envelope of awesomeness, creativity, and style, carrying the reputation of the whole community on their shoulders. That’s kind of the point. There are places for that, and this wasn’t it.

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JULY 30, 2012

Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. Drop by AngelList, where startups have been vetted by a community of advisors and other investors.

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MARCH 10, 2011

On to of that, connected communities of entrepreneurs are better at incubating and supporting startups now than ever before. Online communities provide lots of valuable information as well. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

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. I find no better way to get a feeling for local communities than to sit with a group of early-stage entrepreneurs and talking about the local scene.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today is the 28th Demo Day for Alchemist , an accelerator that primarily focuses on enterprise companies — or those that sell to other companies, primarily, rather than directly to consumers. In Canada, for example, it’s working with Innovate Edmonton on an accelerator program focused on community safety.

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MARCH 1, 2010

You know, if I was the kind of guy that pimped out his own firm's newly redesigned website on a weekly community newsletter that goes out to over 1,000 people, I might include a link to the new FirstRound.com. Back to demos. These unique awards are for the Twitter community, by the Twitter community. Tuesday, March 2nd.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Pangia: Empowering Community Management Kemi Levi, Hannah Clark, and Nassir Mohamud introduced Pangia , a comprehensive community management platform designed to foster highly engaged, data-driven communities.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I fully believe that my daughter Mirren’s crayons and Fisher Price keyboard is very quickly going to make way to her using AI assistance to create music and video in collaborative communities, expanding the notion who we define as a “creator”. There are a lot of parallels here to Web 2.0 and the earliest emergence of UGC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. ” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. ” **.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. 4) Student-focused founder communities. Right here. school of engineering).

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Some have become well known in the entrepreneurial community as benchmark operations for others to emulate, including TechStars and Y-Combinator. There are many stories of funding deals made on demo day amid the excitement of seeing new, polished startups with great ideas and the beginnings of an infrastructure.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator , the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies. Alchemist is above all a network and a community, and I’m committed to serving that community.” The accelerator itself, meanwhile, has some news: new leadership.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Diversity of a cohort matters when trying to create a community that will systemically empower women of all backgrounds. The community of women, many of whom plan to return to school, aren’t focused on classic accelerator tropes like Demo Days or first checks simply because of the stage of life they are in. A team photo.

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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. I am proud to say that Alphaa.io

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

These sessions aim to foster a supportive community where female founders can share their experiences, gain mentorship, and connect with investors committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. Following the afternoon Techstars Demo Day is the Female Founders in Innovation Dinner.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. The process we were following was focused on optimizing every aspect of the demo request journey, from acquiring visitors to optimizing the demo page and more. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

He also penned a petition , now signed by over 5,000 tech CEOs and founders, asking congress to step in and support the entrepreneurial community. We’ll know soon how a YC, refocused on early stage, is navigating the tough road ahead: T he storied accelerator is having its biannual Demo Day in just a few short weeks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos.

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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. Instead, startups could apply and join the community of startups backed by The Family. In exchange for a stake, they could get advice from The Family’s team and network with other people in the community.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

If you’re eager to introduce your early-stage startup to the top leaders, investors, experts and policy makers across the mobility tech community, don’t just attend TC Sessions: Mobility — exhibit there. Virtual booth space: Display your pitch deck, host a video display and demo your products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

HOW HAS THIS GLOBAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTED YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY? When I learned there was a community where people who couldn’t help defying the status quo supported one another, I was relieved. Creating communities is what I do; events and engagement of groups, those are my sweet spots. FAST FORWARD 10 YEARS.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

In addition, Choto says the company offers community and development resources that help them upskill and remain competitive in the global marketplace. Once the job is complete, AfriBlocks collect a transaction fee, and the payment is released from escrow.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

I’d rather have a co-founder than do it alone and had a full pipeline with people from my network and other startup communities. Matthew: You gain a whole new network when you meet someone outside of your community. I quit my job and went full force – experimenting with a bunch of ideas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

While Y Combinator isn’t the definitive source on what success in early-stage startups looks like — it quite literally has a post-mortem dinner after Demo Day to celebrate failure — it does serve well in providing an illustrative glance of how entrepreneurs are thinking about certain sectors in a given moment in time.

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