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. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Dreamit works with top healthcare, cybersecurity, and urban technology startups, providing access to extensive customer, industry, and investor networks during its 14-week program. This pandemic is accelerating a trend in more and more startups utilizing remote workforces and closing sales with virtual demos,” states Barsh. “As

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JUNE 16, 2014

It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. Fear not, founders. The first thing I did was trace my sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. What stage?

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JUNE 26, 2012

Just take how most people approach networking events and talks. One event organizer had even asked me if I wanted to give my talk before the company demos, enabling me to duck out before the crowds could rush me. They spend more time networking with other VCs than helping entrepreneurs they haven't even funded yet. Take pitches?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Co-founder discontent. And there’s conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. Just ask Rob Bailey.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

It’s Demo Day time! Today marks the 30th Demo Day for Alchemist , the enterprise-focused accelerator that helped grow companies like LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Computing and Privacera early on. As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Along with demo space, a $725 Early-Stage Startup Demo Package includes: Four event passes to help your team maximize time and opportunities. Networking done right with our AI-powered CrunchMatch platform. You might just find the co-founder or engineer who can help you put the proverbial pedal to the metal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Considering how many calls investors take on a daily basis, “this new pitching model presents a new problem for founders,” says Flint Capital partner Andrew Gershfeld, whose firm reviews approximately “1,500 online pitches per year.”. 5 things first-time founders must remember when working with VCs. Start here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. With players like Zynga and Playdom earning nine-fugure millions of dollars it’s clear that there is big money in monetizing social networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. DoubleClick and Amazon and is led by co-founders Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. Ask yourself: “Who in my network has the capability to create a successful company?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Three days packed with possibilities, and early-stage founders can wring every ounce of opportunity out of them with an Early-Stage Startup Demo Package. We expect more than 2,000 enthusiastic attendees, where they’ll find 50+ innovative early-stage mobility startups showcasing their tech with hands-on demos. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 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. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. And the energy in the room reflects that of Pear’s founders, Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, who year after year project the cheery demeanor of people eager to win you over. Pear lets the founders choose the check size.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. What brought you to YC’s Co-Founder Matching Platform?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

With Y Combinator Demo Day kicking off tomorrow morning, startups in the current batch are hurrying to make a little news before they show off their recent growth to investors. TechCrunch spoke with Noah Elion , one of Chums’ founders, about the round. Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1.

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MARCH 10, 2011

More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. Plus, there are a ton of in person networking and educational events related to startups that are free or relatively inexpensive. Don't want to learn code?

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes when you’re in the zone as a founder, a case of the twisties can utterly derail progress. 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.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

OmniPACS - Francisco Parin, President & CEO RSVP: [link] Thursday, January 14th 6:00PM: Hackers & Founders NYC Meetup #8 + Demos This month, we'll be hosting a special format of "lightning demos" at Dogpatch Labs in Union Square before usual beer and burgers.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. With a $50,000 convertible note and personalized founder mentorship, Bridge2 lays the foundation for entrepreneurs to thrive in a competitive landscape. The other side of it is experiential.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Contributed to EO by Steve Ferman, an EO New Jersey member, serial entrepreneur, and founder of 4 Pillar Coach. And, because I talked a lot about fishing — I try to live by this core value: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 5, 2023

The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. Looking at this powerful network, we see people from all different backgrounds – each with a unique journey to entrepreneurship. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory , a companion to the YC Startup Directory.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

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. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. The Family was originally founded in 2012 with three co-founders — Alice Zagury, Oussama Ammar and Nicolas Colin.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Do you think when the founder of Spanx wants to raise money for her next consumer product, investors are going to ask her for a PDF? You''ve been to demo days and pitch meetups and read Techcrunch and Mashable about product launches. This is also where the networking and warm intro thing comes into play. He proved resourceful.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. RSVP: [link] 12PM Networked News Gatherers: Defining the Social Media Editor Role, hosted by Time Inc. Fewer demos this time. with Liza Mosquito de Guia, Founder & Chief Storyteller, food. So which is it? On 2/2/10 we discuss 2/2/20.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. “Men are never going to build this for us, so we have to build it for ourselves,” she says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. Here are all of the open source related companies presenting at Demo Day in the Winter 2022 cohort. Tuva Health. Founded: 2021.

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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. and Asia. .

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

The program offers all YC founders resources to help them achieve the best possible outcomes when raising capital: year-round workshops, detailed fundraising guides & templates, and 1:1 support. This is a great role for somebody who loves helping startups, is eager to talk with YC founders (our customers!), Learn more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s your chance to meet, mingle and network with mobility’s movers, shakers, shippers and unicorn makers under one roof at the spacious San Mateo County Event Center. You’ll find demos spanning the range of mobility tech, including the latest in scooters, e-bikes, EVs and autonomous vehicles. Who’s at the top of your must-meet list?

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MAY 25, 2011

bre.ad , a new startup launching whose founder has perfected the art of the conference pitch. We're going to be demoing all afternoon in this location. I've been thinking about bread for the last couple of days. No, not bread. I was sitting at lunch at Techcrunch Disrupt in the middle of a bunch of people. hopefully you can come by.".

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