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. I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure.

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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. Some of those updates: Alchemist has raised another $4 million in funds to invest, backed by NEC, Johnson Controls and Nornickel.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

We believe that growth marketing will become more effective when you also invest time and effort in channels and spaces you can’t necessarily measure. For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Preqin (free demo). Private Equity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Which is why I’m hoping that this is the year that a back channeling social media platform actually takes off. As our own Mary Ann reports, “Arc is building what it describes as ‘a community of premium software companies’ that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend all on a single tech platform.”. The new, new: .

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

A study conducted by Harvard Business School points to three key factors contributing to the growth in independent retail: (1) community, (2) curation, and (3) convening 6. 1) Community: Independent retailers have become staples of their communities by focusing on values that are relevant to local consumers. <20% pre-COVID).

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our team works with local animal services organizations and municipalities to build a custom identification tag program tailored to meet the needs of the community. We’re focused on growing our company and building strategic partnerships that will fuel future growth and investment opportunities. Thank you so much for joining us!

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Peter Bryla , Community Manager, ResumeLab Leverage Customizable SaaS Products Or APIs I think startups with a limited budget don’t need to create their own AI, but instead, try to leverage some SaaS products. Additionally, it might be worth considering using APIs instead of investing in a full-fledged AI model.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms. After publishing the content, we managed to triple our organic traffic quarter-over-quarter and got the first demo call scheduled. Web Stories, as the name suggests, is a feature of Google.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business. It strengthens your business or product launch and gets people to spread awareness about it on social media. Leverage new-age social media strategies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. Answering the Call of Duty .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. Preqin (free demo).

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Register Venture investment is a high-stakes game that demands vision, persistence, and adaptability. One such luminary is Yongmin Kim, whose journey through the ups and downs of the investment industry is nothing short of inspiring. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Oh, and Forethought scored a $9 million Series A investment after it won. Each startup team gets six minutes to pitch and present their demo — and then they’ll answer probing questions from the judges. Not a bad return for a small investment of your time and energy, amirite? Food for thought. You’ll find them here.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

OurCrowd will celebrate passing $2B in investment commitments and its 10th anniversary at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on February 15th in Jerusalem, as reported in Forbes , the Jerusalem Post , the Times of Israel and other media. to develop new sales tool More than 4,400 high-tech jobs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

” New crypto startups forged ahead during Alliance DAO’s demo day on Wednesday amid the FTX implosion. The most recent cohort, known as All9, for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community, presented their ideas on Wednesday during a demo day , exclusively covered by Jacquelyn. Big Tech Inc. Aisha has more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks. It was a roller coaster of a week once again as economic headwinds took a brutal, demoralizing toll, and as chaos reigned at Elon Musk’s Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Community has never felt louder in startupland. Bringing people together over a shared interest is innate to human nature, and coming out of a lonely, draining pandemic, every startup is looking to cultivate community, conversation and camaraderie. Privacy first. It’s more than a polite request.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

I went back across the 21 investments I''ve made both at First Round and at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --a period that dates back to January 28, 2010, when I closed on Backupify. My social media streams actually do more to keep existing connections warm than they do to create new ones.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re excited about the Apple event, and Y Combinator has its demo day. Data dilemma : Instagram was handed “a fat fine” by the European Union after it was determined Meta’s social media platform was not properly handling children’s data, Natasha L writes. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, hey, hey!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Now, that will include menopause, as well — a life stage that will impact nearly half the world’s population at some point, but where opportunities there are few online communities where women can connect and learn. Others, meanwhile, were older and entering menopause, and were in search of community. Image Credits: Peanut.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The podcasting world remains one of the most vibrant formats in media (and I am not just saying that since the Equity crew won a Webby yesterday for our not-that-humble podcast ). This is her first investment with the firm. 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Get your facts straight : That’s what the Indian government is saying to Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies about posting any misinformation. Here is part 1 of our favorites , with the second one coming later on today.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2020

based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. June Motherhood. Website: ladder.io.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

.” Today and tomorrow, we’ll have team coverage of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day , including a selection of staff favorites, so be sure to check the site each afternoon. 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

We know, we know — all of these puns are clucking terrible, but what is a poor pair of newsletter writers to do when they pull our favorite social media site from the stork exchange? Having a community is important, and Reddit perhaps has one of the biggest communities around. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

How good are you at attracting links, how good are you at getting found in Google, how’s your social media setup, how many followers do you have, all that kind of stuff. Well, let me show you a demo of our software. It’s really hard to have that investment and sort of hold off on outbound stuff.

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