Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

With a rigorous selection process, only the most promising tech-enabled companies get the chance to pitch. The intimate setting of breakfasts and dinners at the event allows for meaningful interactions, enabling investors to gain deep insights into the startups they are considering for investment.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. datacy: Founded by CEO Paroma Indilo and Kaleb Wilson, Datacy is a marketplace focused on enabling ethical and legal data exchange.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Friction in Sales : The traditional sales process involved cold calls and lengthy demos, which were less appealing to modern customers who valued a frictionless experience. We tried to compete, investing a million dollars in enabling self-serve products and revamping our GTM playbook. But it wasn’t enough.

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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. Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 5, 2023

The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. We’re also enabling any YC company to opt into having their YC application video , written application answers , and Demo Day video public on the YC Startup Directory. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory , a companion to the YC Startup Directory.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Indian SaaS community has seen a flurry of innovation and success. These firms are diverse in terms of the clients they serve and the problems they solve, but several garnered global attention during the pandemic by enabling flexibility for newly remote workers. The rise of Indian SaaS unicorns. India’s path to leadership.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 28, 2020

At our 31st Demo Day, 198 companies presented virtually over two days. Post-COVID world, including online communities and creators, edtech, remote tools, and delivery solutions for retail and restaurants. Serving businesses, including fintech, business management software, tech-enabled services, marketing, and marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based Now armed with $3.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The investment comes from Wells Fargo and Mastercard and a group of the nation’s largest real estate owners, including The Blackstone Group, AvalonBay Communities, Douglas Elliman, Equity Residential, GID-Windsor Communities, LENx, The Moinian Group, Morgan Properties, Starwood Capital Group and Related.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. On the other side of the marketplace, Faire enables brands to find new customers, manage their existing customer base, and reduce their risk of non-payment.

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 31, 2023

Here’s how it works: There are micro-streamers (Twitch streamers with CCV ±35) who have small but highly engaged communities. Campaigns are now being scaled with new streamers while continuing to support the community of streamers and the viewers that were attracted before. Matt Janaway , CEO, Marketing Labs

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group office hours, individual office hours, demo day prep, and more. Visiting Group Partners. Divya Bhat.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company, with bases in both Denver and New York, is developing software to aid with daily productivity; for example, a scheduling tool that sits on top of existing company calendars like Outlook and GCal and a peer-to-peer community for EAs to share knowledge. Cabinet was founded by CEO Julia Leibowitz and CTO Evan Kesten in 2018.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models. These activities centered around facilitating a connection between people and communities whose paths don’t usually cross. We organized a number of events.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

AM: We went to a builders community we’d built the year before, and to [Stanford’s] engineering school [where I teach], and to the CS department at a number of universities and said, ‘Hey, if you’re interested in being a future founder, and you’re a great builder, then we are interested in talking to you.’

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media enables them to refine their model, explains Rachel Tipograph, founder of social commerce software company MikMak. It enables companies to use social media platforms for a direct, fast product sale, blurring the lines between newsfeed and shopping cart. Clicking on them can drive traffic through to a retail site.

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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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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Notley is a catalyst for social innovation unlocking opportunities with today’s impact organizations and changing communities.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

that enable safe reopening. Demo Day for both batches remained completely virtual of course, but it was remarkably successful as more than 3,000 investors attended and YC companies raised record amounts of seed funding. In February, Lucira Health (W15), a company focused on the. Their COVID-19 test kit has received OTC authorization.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. What it says it does: Moni describes itself as a community bank for Africa. It provides financing to these agents using community and trust-based systems, claiming to do so in five minutes. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

. “Scale vs. Customization” — Beachhead go-to-market slide. “The Wilco Effect” — Product benefits slide. “Product Experience” — Product screenshot (and demo, possibly?). Go-to-market slide. Traction slide — Redacted: Monthly active users (graph of users over time).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. Instead, think about building a community (or joining an awesome existing one ).

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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. Can’t we all just get along? TC’s Christine Hall covered its recent $5 million raise here. And in case you missed it, last week, I wrote about a similar company called Landa.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2013

In addition, I benefitted enormously from the huge free library of free components called gems that enable in-line editing, easy access to databases, etc, built by the community. The developer community has persistently and rapidly iterated existing tools and built new tools.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. The problem they were solving was not one I had experienced, and the product demo didn’t work very well at the time. Drew Houston was born in Acton, and met his co-founder Arash Ferdowsi at MIT.

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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. A creative way to charge more for a ticket is to enable certain ticket holders the ability to meet a celebrity in the networking area in Hopin.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They offer intuitive tools that enable users without extensive programming knowledge to build web applications, including mobile apps. Opportunities for Feedback Mobile apps enable small businesses to keep in touch with the feelings and opinions of users by offering opportunities to share critical feedback.

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Reforge

MAY 30, 2023

When we interviewed our community to get the story behind this trend, one thing became clear; members get more value from Reforge when they consume it as a team. Request a Demo Introducing our New Pricing and Packaging Today, we are introducing a superior pricing structure for teams. You might ask “why?”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Zendesk vs. Zoho Desk at a glance Both Zendesk and Zoho Desk offer valuable customer service tool features like ticketing, a knowledge base , a community forum, live chat, automations, macros (pre-saved actions), collaboration features, cross-platform support, and reporting options.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular. From the initial questions, the network moved to testing and piloting with local Impact Hubs. Here’s a sneak peak on their work: .

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group office hours, individual office hours, demo day prep, and more. At Rickshaw, she built a profitable business with a small, scrappy team before being acquired by Doordash, where she was a Director of Product.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

David Begazo , Owner, PRismatic SEO Generate Top-of-Funnel Traffic with Articles For a startup client who just entered its niche, our priority is to gain brand awareness and secure the first demo and sign-up. After publishing the content, we managed to triple our organic traffic quarter-over-quarter and got the first demo call scheduled.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Notley is a catalyst for social innovation unlocking opportunities with today’s impact organizations and changing communities.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 16, 2020

To keep the community safe , we’re hosting YC W20 Demo Day online. While the Demo Day website is only accessible to investors, you can see a list of the companies that are presenting on-the-record here. Today, we’re excited to introduce you to YC’s 30th batch. – Consumer, including parenting tools.

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