American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

With a rigorous selection process, only the most promising tech-enabled companies get the chance to pitch. Three pitching events happen on the first day of the Conference: Seed Stage, Early Stage, and Growth Stage companies. The Seed Stage Pitch competition winner will be awarded a $500,000 investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Participation came from returning investors Elevation Capital and several prominent angel investors like Ola founder Ankit Bhai; Disney Streaming SVP of product; Ashwini Asokan, the founder of Mad Street Dap; and Pushkar Mukewar, founder Drip Capital. Murf’s founders. billion by 2028, growing at a 14.6%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Papercup’s existing angel investors include William Tunstall-Pedoe, the founder of Evi Technologies — the company acquired by Amazon to create Alexa — and Zoubin Ghahramani, former chief scientist and VP of AI at Uber and now part of the Google Brain leadership team.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Why startups fail, and how to fix it As founder of six startups, advisor to founders, and a startup strategist at IMD ( #1 ranked business school ), Boris Manhart has seen many mistakes being made and have made many himself. A lack of leadership ?—?Set Set clear, achievable goals together with the team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

We get a teensy bit excited whenever Y Combinator does a set of demo days. More stories of up, up, and away: Speaking of mono-racked fantasy horses, women’s leadership network Chief saddled up and rode its unicorn status into its continued future of developing women in leadership in the course of its $100 million Series B round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The dinner was a coming out party for Orbillion Bio , a new startup pitching today in Y Combinator’s latest demo day, that’s looking to take lab-grown meats from the supermarket to high-end, bespoke butcher shops. Orbillion Bio co-founders Gabriel Levesque-Tremblay, CTO; Patricia Bubner, CEO; and Samet Yildirim, COO.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Requires Columbia affiliation. Notley Ventures.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

That’s why product demo webinars are so effective at maximizing conversion rates. A live presenter especially helps when building trust with your audience and getting them to buy. — Simon Grabowski , founder and CEO of ClickMeeting. Is your marketing pitch confusing? You’re forgetting emotions. It takes a lot of tries.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Hopefully, it’s a helpful guide to founders and operators looking to launch soon. Once you’ve reached out, pitch them on why they should support your launch! An interactive demo helps you do just that. Launching on Product Hunt is an exhilarating ride that I’d recommend to any startup founder or builder.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. I went in to get tokens and he got beaned by the effing first pitch while I was away. As you know, Justin’s is 8-15 year-old girls and he built his music & persona around this demo.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Requires Columbia affiliation. The J.M.K. “The

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. When you pitched me I really did love you. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

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. She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 4, 2015

When asked these questions during a fundraising pitch, one CEO responded with the number of demos per account executive per day to attain next month’s bookings, impressively conveying his command of his business. What is the ratio of the sales pipeline to bookings? What should it be?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. After demo day, we got a call from a European gym equipment manufacturer. (An If the founder has other bids, maybe there’s a minor bidding war. But not for me. The game begins.

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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. After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. Marc’s Lore: Startup Schemes, Utopian Dreams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. CEO & Co-founder, Slingshot Aerospace as they discuss what lies on the other side of this economic turbulence and the role the government can play as a non-equity investor supporting development of critical technologies in the national interest. Women of Disrupt Breakfast . Receptions | 8:30 am .

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