AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

German food tech startup Koralo won the coveted ‘2022 K-Startup Grand Challenge’ as the best foreign startup team at the Demo Day. The final Demo Day in November 2023 will select five promising startups for grand prizes. On the final Demo Day, prizes worth approximately $270,000 will be awarded to the top five startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. ” It’s too early to tell when Airhart will reach product-market fit, but its proposal to “make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store” did sound like a strong audience fit for YC’s Demo Day. hospital systems.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The financial institution recently organized the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ a startup demo day held at the KB Innovation Hub Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul. It created a platform for exchanging ideas on financial consulting, corporate financial management, government-backed business programs, and technology collaboration.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. Similarly, external consultants, such as marketing agencies, can take over major projects like launch strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The startup began as a design consultancy helping companies design circuit boards, but they discovered this way of bringing more automation to the design process and began building the solution they have today, originally for themselves, before making it into a product. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The round, led by Blackbird, also included participation from Shasta Ventures, Icehouse Ventures, Ascential and brand consultant Mark Ritson. Tracksuit , a New Zealand-based brand tracking startup, wants to take on traditional market research players by offering a more affordable, accessible brand insights tool.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Its team comprises of former VCs, program directors, consultants, and startup CXOs. Lim talks more about Meet Ventures, his tips to startups, and more in an interview with AsiaTechDaily.

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2022

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. Prior to WayUp, JJ spent a year as a freelancing backpacker in 16 countries, then joined McKinsey as a consultant in New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. Demo’d to death. Yeah, he was LA, baby! Quality endures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

I avoid Demo Days like the plague and have publicly said so. By the time it’s hit demo day I’m too late. I remember being a strategy consultant where you had to pretend to know everything and be right all the time. I think the VC industry tends to pressure new entrants to feel like strategy consultants did.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022, and was overwhelmed with demo requests,” Luccisano said. By way of background, Socialcam was a mobile photo-sharing app that Autodesk acquired in 2012, while Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform aimed at enterprise tech companies.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have. Hiring consultants in the wrong places.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

During the demo, the vendor will showcase a test script that should include all the possible scenarios you want to see happening. The demo should have enough time to showcase the ease of use of the system. Madelyn Jade is a branding and marketing consultant and has published several papers on these subjects.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

You might say that, as a Fortune 500 executive recently told me (only half-jokingly), that “reorganizations are highly successful, if you’re a management consulting firm.”. And yet, there are a few notable examples of so-called “traditional” organizations successfully returning to their innovative roots.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

If necessary, we stick around in a consulting role. 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Small Business Administration (SBA) and offer free or low-cost consulting, training, and assistance to entrepreneurs. It has a small business loan guarantee program and runs awards that recognize entrepreneurs and ecosystem stakeholders who provide assistance to small business owners. Learn more here.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Wërngël-Bi supported a diverse range of projects, from eco-construction to ecological toilets, with the top three projects qualifying for funding opportunities following a Demo Day where participants showcased their progress.

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 31, 2023

These pages were relatively easy to build out, and once we had them ranking, they were driving product demo and signup leads to our website passively. We guided them through specific paths that led to various desired outcomes, from learning more about our services to scheduling a consultation call. The results were fantastic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He says he loved PowerPoint and before becoming a founder, spent 10 years building presentations, including stints teaching university students how to make engaging ones, and then at his first job at a consultant at BCG. Sydney- and San Francisco-based Chronicle was born as a result.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

Nik Talreja : It’s always best to consult your attorney to ensure you get a full download on your particular situation, so consider the following with a grain of salt. Any manager who is considering raising under 506(c) should consult their legal counsel and / or fund administrator. How large is this risk?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Agarwal then started Polytopal, a “human-centered AI” consulting company that worked with brands like Spotify, Meta and Nestlé to develop various intelligent systems. million in venture capital toward Poly at Y Combinator’s demo day in September. ” Image Credits: Poly.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yet, professional angels are usually willing to take active board seats in a young enterprise and act as cost-free consultants to the CEO-entrepreneur, giving freely of their individual and collective years of experience, often in the same industry as the investment target. Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years.

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500

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Felix Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Back Office, a human-assisted AI platform and bookkeeping service for companies and consultants. In an interview with Nathan Beckord on Foundersuite’s “How I Raised It” podcast he shared how 500 Startups was instrumental in the early growth of BackOffice. Below is an excerpt of his interview.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2012

Sure, they had a demo or a prototype or something, but investors know the product will change. Most entrepreneurs aren't qualified for their jobs--including about 100% of the first timers. Many times, they get backed just because they're smart people working in an interesting area.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The top 3 projects were qualified for funding opportunities after a Demo Day, where they had the chance to showcase the progress made during the programme. Meet the Wërngël-Bi entrepreneurs. Josephine Tine, the co-founder of ART-Pesoung, was one of the participants of the initiative.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I spent a decade consulting for Fortune 500’s with massive customer data sets?—?data Have you ever met a company that actually knows why their customers churn, renew, or grow, and most importantly, how to get ahead of it? I bet the answer is no. None of it works.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

You went to top schools, trained at a prestigious bank/consulting firm/etc, and you’ve succeeded in the corporate world doing some important and impactful stuff. They’re not just grabbing coffee with any random former McKinsey consultant who wants to “get into the startup world”. You’ve got a great resume.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Some fraction of a post-sales/professional services consultant. Scenario Qualified Lead Sales Call Demo Close Funnel Yield. The first row describes the status quo: 15% email to lead conversion, 20% lead to sales call conversion, 50% sales call to demo, and an 80% demo-to-close. Some fraction of a customer success manager.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The program contains events focused on specific topics and concludes with a final demo day with investors. There are multiple phases from September to March, including team forming, workshops, and demo days. Free consulting. It is typically located in Hyderabad but has moved online until further notice. Startup contests.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Abstra is focused on late-/growth-stage tech companies and enterprise IT consulting companies. The young startup got the opportunity to pitch Accenture, a consulting firm that had over $50 billion in revenue in 2021, because Costa had a friend in common with some people who worked there. “I So no-code was hugely beneficial with this.”.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Were outside advisors, contractors or consultants involved? an extreme example, that graphic designer or photographer who was paid as an independent contractor to create an image for the website may have also offered some input on other aspects of the user experience after reviewing a demo or mockup.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Small businesses no longer need to engage in lengthy projects that would have been required using traditional consultant routes. Your team can understand app-based project needs and requirements better than any outside consultant. Why not give them the basic tools and training they need to deploy apps?

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Which channels give the highest conversion rates for meetings/demos – both online and/or in-person? Measure the number of: Demos. Or does your most successful channel for in-person meetings also deliver the highest number of demos or Zoom meetings? Mary Crampton is the owner and principal consultant at Magnify Consulting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

CEO Nahuel Candia got the initial idea for Rebill in 2018 when he was consulting for an insurance company in Argentina. A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YC’s winter 2022 Demo Day. Rebill was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

On any given day I could have been really pressed for time and asked to get straight to the presentation – you can never predict how the meeting will go so you must be prepared to show a deck, do a demo or just have a conversation. This meeting was a 10/10 for me. is important.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Yet, professional angels are usually willing to take active board seats in a young enterprise and act as cost-free consultants to the CEO-entrepreneur, giving freely of their individual and collective years of experience, often in the same industry as the investment target. months from introduction to investment.

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