TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

All you need is a killer pitch, an MVP, nerves of steel and the drive and determination to take on all comers to claim the coveted Disrupt Cup. If you fit the description, apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Oh, and let’s not forget the bragging rights associated with winning the Disrupt Cup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! At Disrupt , you’ll rub virtual elbows with the thousands of startup founders, investors and innovators building cutting-edge products and companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One of the best parts of TechCrunch Disrupt is the Startup Battlefield competition, and one of the most important pieces of the Startup Battlefield is our lineup of expert judges — they’re the ones the founders are trying to impress. And then, of course, they choose the winner who gets to take home $100k and the Disrupt Cup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

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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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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. The alphaa.io

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

This event draws an incredible mix of Silicon Valley’s startup community, including over 40 VC firms so far — a who’s who of founders, investors, tech makers and movers and shakers. A quick reminder that if you have an early-stage startup, it’s not too late to buy a Summer Party demo table. Ticket price: $75.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

You’ve seen the company’s dog-like robot Spot in countless demos and on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. You can catch all of the sessions and join the robotics community online for speed networking, chats and one-on-one meetings. Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics. Simply register here for free.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

For other examples, you could also look at what HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah does with community-led growth. In my sales demo, I talk about the narrative before going into the demo. You can give examples showing how this is working, and tie your startup to them. The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I am super passionate about bringing disruptive technologies into real world use cases for mass adoption, especially when it involves empowering communities. Twitter: @VRYNT_ LinkedIn: [link] Medium: [link] Discord: [link] YouTube: [link] Check out our demos from your desktop browser to have some fun and let your imagination run wild!:

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Ammo is based in Perth and an active member of Western Australia’s startup community, where it is “very highly regarded,” in the words of the survey respondent who recommended it to TechCrunch. Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day. Cam Sinclair. Image Credits: Aline Kuba (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re excited about the Apple event, and Y Combinator has its demo day. warned its community of disruptions while the district manages an ongoing ransomware attack , Carly reports. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, hey, hey!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Often times that looks like good news, like when small scrappy startups get starter capital to take on the public giant, or well-capitalized late-stage giant, or that moment when you realize healthcare’s disruption is just at its infancy. Demo days definitely amplify a brand, but not the one you’d think. Must we explain more?

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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. In case you have been hiding under a rock and haven’t heard, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to San Francisco October 18–20! Can’t we all just get along?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The tech community is creating more and more of these change agents everyday. This Sunday, student hackers will be demoing their creations at the hackNY Student Hackathon DemoFest. They have the capability to move markets and build new companies based on positive principals.

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Gust

JUNE 4, 2014

For example, the most recent investment I’ve led, Social Bicycles, I saw when they demoed at NY Tech Meetup last summer. Demo Days from the NYC-based accelerators. University-affiliated demo events from NYU, Columbia, Pace and others. Major industry conferences like Business Insider’s Startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.” “Bonfire is empowering creators to turn audiences into communities through easy-to-use tools and a no-code platform powered by their social tokens and NFTs. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2023

Further down the line, mark your calendar for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , which will take place in San Francisco on September 19– 21. Over at Found , meanwhile, Amanda and Darrell spoke with Teddy Solomon, the co-founder of Fizz, a social media app aimed at college students focusing on building community on campus.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Disrupt Stage Agenda. Acing Venture.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

At Versatile VC , our new VC fund, we’re creating an online community just for founders who are in transition, Founders’ Next Move. Many generalist online communities also have verticals focused on entrepreneurship, e.g., LunchClub or Meetup. Notation Moonlight is a community of tech leaders who are considering building a company.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Well, let me show you a demo of our software. We were a content machine, and I still think of HubSpot as a little bit of, like, it’s code, there’s software, there’s content, all that content out there, and there’s a community around it. There’s big a been disruption in the content creation industry.

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