Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 9, 2025

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

I treated the product demo as a live slide. I also incorporated a live demo section to enable investors to see the tool in action. The sequence moved from visual immersion to product function, then finally to performance metrics. That order carried more weight than traditional pitch sequencing. This made it tangible and less abstract.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. So we’ve also eliminated these high-end production demo days, the big events. When we see great talent coming through in great companies, we’re not waiting for a demo day to showcase that.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

It’s worth putting lots of effort into developing a compelling pitch and marketing material such as videos, beta versions, product demos, or whatever is needed to demonstrate the quality of the product. How you deliver the message is as important as the product or service.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Winners from the initial competitive event will continue developing their prototypes towards a Minimum Viable Product and present their solutions at a demo day event. After the demo day event, winners will continue working with the Administrator on pilot testing or commercialization of the AI-based software solution.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

Initiatives such as AI Demo Days and open-source contributions are helping foster collaboration among researchers, builders, and infrastructure teams. The company is actively investing in research and development to enhance its proprietary large language model (LLM) and deepen the capabilities of its platform.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

When someone submits a demo request through a HubSpot form, a Zap checks lead details in Google Sheets, notifies the team in Slack, and assigns the lead to a rep based on rules like company size and region. They needed a smarter, more scalable way to keep up—so they turned to Zapier and AI to make it happen.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

They typically highlight key features, benefits, or use cases, often with a quick demo or close-up visuals. In-product demo : Quick cuts through the user interface (UI) show exactly how the feature works, helping users visualize themselves using it. The goal is clarity: show the product, show the value, and make it easy to say yes.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

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. I’m always up to chat with fellow entrepreneurs, designers, or anyone interested in AI UX! This was very insightful. It’s been a pleasure.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. Im happy to share that Ive started working (part-time) with Orange Collective. The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But now, when I demo the platform, you can see their eyes light up. What’s also exciting is seeing that lightbulb moment when people get it. At first, explaining a platform like Grapevine was challenging because people were used to managing with separate tools.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2025

Using product or service descriptions with the expectation that a “demo” is going to generate sales is a fool’s errand. During our research, we identified more than 50 companies where the founders proudly declared they have done “more than one hundred demos.” Every single company that rushed to demo eventually closed the business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Other effective CTAs for a sales-focused folder might include inviting recipients to connect on social media for updates, offering a limited-time discount on your products or services, or encouraging them to scan a QR code to access exclusive sales materials or product demos. Make CTAs stand out with a contrasting color or larger font size.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Surfer SEO AI-Driven Content Optimization Best For: Ranking higher on Google and improving content performance Surfer SEO combines AI with data analytics to help small businesses write content to achieve top-ranking pages.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And we got to a point that our AI agent demo completely opened our eyes as to what was possible. To demo Regal, or learn more about their product, head to their website. Then, about a year and a half ago, everything changed. We started focusing on creating an omni-agent system, one where both AI and humans could operate seamlessly.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Additionally, most CRMs offer free trials or demos. Always clarify the total cost of ownership and whether a free trial or demo is available to assess value before committing. Read user reviews and test free trials. Find actual users who use the software. Consider your growth plans.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

That's why, in addition to my own research, I've relied heavily on the expertise of seasoned VoIP users, product demos, industry professionals, and reputable third-party reviews to paint a complete picture.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

Commercial Roadmap | 2025 – 2027 Mid-2025 – Ionisil demo line (1,000 t/yr) online Locks in joint-venture talks with North-American battery-cell makers. In addition, its use in technical ceramics from 5G base-stations to hypersonic components opens lucrative defense adjacencies.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

How to apply Record a short video (2 min max) or write a concise case study that shows the workflows and solutions that you’ve built with Zapier, including: The problem you tackled The Zap/AI workflow you built (screens or demo encouraged) The outcome—numbers, time saved, revenue generated, or customer love Fill out the application form (one workflow (..)

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

To find the best platforms, I dove deep into product demos, meticulously reviewed user feedback on trusted sites, and analyzed how each system grappled with common AP headaches. One size definitely does not fit all in this world.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

In many cases, that initial contact happens through an online form—whether it's a "Get Help" form, a "Request a Demo" form, or something similar. " There's a lot of pressure to act on hot leads, whether they're asking for a demo, a revised contract, or something else.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Whenever possible, make things visual with shared mockups, wireframes , or demos. What are we working on next? What's changed (if anything)? Are there any roadblocks or decisions that need to be made?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Pretty quickly, it generated a demo website using my uploaded blog that allowed me to click between the four different themes. Instead of diving into code and wrestling with JavaScript, I screenshotted my current blog and showed it to an AI. “Reformat this to resemble The Wall Street Journal,” I said. Then The Economist.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

You can even preview the demos before deciding which one to use.) Only Quill Forms and SureForms offer a free demo, so I'd recommend first trying the free version of each plugin to get a feel for what it has to offer. Plus, there's an AI form builder to help you create forms quickly and easily.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Transcribe and translate audio files Whether you're making product demos for your customers or videos for an online course, you'll also want to target international customers. Fortunately, you can use ChatGPT's translation capabilities to convert audio files into text, then into a different language of your choice.

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500

MAY 21, 2019

Its been one week since the Misk 500 Batch 1 Demo Day and we’re still smiling. The post Misk 500 MENA Accelerator Celebrates First Demo Day appeared first on 500 Startups. The energy in the room in Riyadh, on May 13th, was palpable. The 19 companies were on FIRE and rose to the occasion to give the best versions of their pitches.

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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

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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At Today’s Demo Day showcases the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s largest and most global cohort to date, underscoring our mission to advance a more equitable investment landscape worldwide.”’

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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Gust

JULY 25, 2023

Most, but not all, will offer networking opportunities (with the exception of programs that focus heavily on one-on-one mentorship) and most, but not all, will offer some form of funding opportunities, either through direct investment or by leveraging their network of investors for targeted introductions or a demo day-style event.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I'd recommend searching for "[your mic] best techniques" and watching a demo video or two to understand the best way to approach the mic. In most cases, you don't want to speak directly into the mic, but just past it or at an angle.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

Anna Dev tools plus generative AI Y Combinator Demo Days are a strong indicator of the trends investors might be interested in — and that’s one of the main reasons why TechCrunch always watches them pretty closely. In its Winter 2023 batch , three areas stood out, the accelerator said: “ open source , dev tools and AI.”

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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