StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2025

This tendency is exaggerated when the new offering is disruptive or innovative. Using product or service descriptions with the expectation that a “demo” is going to generate sales is a fool’s errand. Every single company that rushed to demo eventually closed the business. the answer became all too predictable: zero.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Potential to DISRUPT business CISOs are accustomed to constant innovation. Be prepared to tell the CISO how your solution can be deployed alongside existing technologies without causing disruptions. Demo or mock data is better than no data. However, he also coaches them on what to avoid. You can watch the whole episode below: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Before they even launched, Mike and his team started bringing in hundreds of influencers from NYC’s technology ecosystem to their office to give them a private demo. Thank you, John. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. Read on to learn about the simple ways that any business can harness the potential of the metaverse to support employees, connect with customers and drive success. Explore new avenues to connect with customers .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

It’s a little softer than a traditional investment vehicle, given that we don’t know how formal those offers of support are, and the fact that Cloudflare is not providing any funding or making any funding decisions. Demo days will still happen biannually, but startups can choose which demo day they want to be a part of.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity. Secondly, we are already well into planning TechCrunch Disrupt 2021! Thirdly, thank you for all the support. The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making). Hear how Poshmark went from Series A to the public markets with Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

In total, Vise has raised $63 million since launching on the TC Disrupt stage in 2019. You can check out the video of their demo here. Vise brought on Fong to scale up its technical team following its most recent fundraise, a $45 million in Series B led by Sequoia Capital. Meet Vise AI, the startup reimagining portfolio management.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A founder posed me a question earlier this week: Do you have any data/perspective on whether it’s worth keeping the unassisted free trial flow vs. providing only one path which leads to a demo and an assisted free trial? Many more prospects will email customer support, which can be expensive. This is a complex question.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

You are pivoting the direction of the story, you are disrupting the current status quo, and the possibilities are endless. Mainly the demo day deck, the email deck and the meeting deck. Demo Day pitch. They are rather a support and illustration for what the person is saying. What’s going on? What are the flaws?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Canaan’s Maha Ibrahim told me during Disrupt 2020 that it was a time when VCs had to “play the game” and pay up for startups, so long as companies were being “rewarded in the public markets for high growth the way that Snowflake” was at the time. Here are 10 favorites from recent Techstars demo days.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1. ZOKO is helping businesses do sales, marketing, and customer support on WhatsApp. Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 2. Prescribe is a Shopify for hospitals. Zingbus has built a platform for bus travel between Indian cities.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The KSGC team also gives follow-up support to the top startups for them to establish a business in Korea.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re excited about the Apple event, and Y Combinator has its demo day. Manish was behind two of our big stories over the weekend, including crypto exchange Binance announcing it would stop supporting USDC, USDP and TUSD and begin converting the three rival stablecoins into its own stablecoin, BUSD, on September 29. Hey, hey, hey!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Prague-based company represents one of the Battlefield 200 startup exhibitors at TC Disrupt this week, and TechCrunch caught up with the cofounders to get the lowdown on what Talkbase is all about, and the problem that it’s looking to solve. Community meets product. Talkbase: Task management Image Credits: Talkbase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Demoing as part of the Battlefield 200 cohort at TC Disrupt this week, TechCrunch met up with Theneo to find out how they plan to get their slice of the $4.5 billion API management market — a figure that’s predicted to rise to nearly $14 billion within five years.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

D-ID, which actually debuted at TechCrunch Battlefield in 2018 with a very different focus (scrambling facial recognition tech), debuted its new Speaking Portraits product live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. as well as an App Store-dominating app from a relatively unknown brand, would seem to support that assessment.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This Sunday, student hackers will be demoing their creations at the hackNY Student Hackathon DemoFest. Hats off to the teams at Kickstarter, Donorschoose, Meetup, Twitter, GroupMe, etc for building the tools that enable self-organization, democratization, and disruption of the status quo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Founded in Dallas in March this year, Vitag is officially announcing its private beta today at TC Disrupt, where the company was selected as one of TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 startup cohorts. Furthermore, Vitag also supports NFC tags from third-party providers, with an in-app function for users to format the tags to work with Vitag.

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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.” We are devoted to empowering modern families through economic empowerment, inclusivity, and community support.” ” Bonfire. ” Parthean.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

The email is a vibe shift from just a few weeks ago , when hundreds of Y Combinator startups — many of which already raised venture funding — presented themselves to the public on Demo Day. As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend or following me on Twitter or my blog. Obviously, the show must go on.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Last year, clean tech veteran investor Vinod Khosla wrote that we needed breakthroughs supported by a dozen instigators — we could call them the “green dozen.” Carbon removal needs to become the size of the oil and gas industry, a trillion-dollar market. Today it’s about a billion dollars.” ” It’s about people.

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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. Google announced this week that it would stop selling the last incarnation of Glass, Glass Enterprise Edition, on March 15 (but continue to support existing customers until September 15).

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Day one of TechCrunch Disrupt is in the rearview mirror, and what a great day it was! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage locations and times listed in the Disrupt agenda — and in your handy event app. Expo Hall & Demo Booths. Women of Disrupt Breakfast . Disrupt Stage | 10:55 am & 2:40 pm.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Partner with a VC which has a formal program to support individuals who have not yet founded a company, but likely will in the future. Although the role is constantly evolving , VC Entrepreneurs in Residence are usually previously successful entrepreneurs who are building a startup leveraging the VC’s support. Feedback.vc

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