Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Given how much opportunity is out there, 2-3 good ones a year is doable.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Elsewhere on Demo Day, Lydia.ai The moonshots. walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos. Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As the captain of your ship, you’ll navigate a vast sea of opportunities. CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. In the high-stakes adventure of entrepreneurship, the search for your ideal clients and employees can become a thrilling quest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

These days, when you have an opportunity to sell an investor on your idea, it will likely be via a video call, not over a croissant or a shawarma. Says Gershfeld, “since we’re not getting the same in-person meeting opportunities, this is how founders can hook investors’ attention.”. The pandemic put a stop to that, however.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

If you're a beginner learning the ropes or a veteran B2C marketer making the shift, trying to work with anything other than a purpose-built B2B email marketing strategy is a recipe for disaster. 6 key strategies for designing a B2B email campaign You get it: B2C or generalized email strategies are a no-go for your B2B campaign.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

’s strategy and missteps. 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. We started by talking about this person’s background.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And, because Disrupt is highly interactive, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to engage, ask questions and receive answers. Admit one: Buy your TC Disrupt 2021 pass — for less than $100 — and go find or create the opportunities that can help you move your business forward. Head to the agenda and plan your strategy.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. They invest in the fund, evaluate each Y Combinator batch, perform due diligence, and help us gain access to hard-to-access opportunities. Our strategy is to get into the top companies extremely early, when prices are lower.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

AI presents a tremendous economic opportunity for New Jersey, poised to create good-paying jobs, catalyze new discoveries, grow our start-up community, and foster long-term economic growth, said Governor Murphy. Winners will also receive mentorship and advisory support from the Administrators network of subject matter experts.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, entrepreneurs often make costly, avoidable errors in their funding strategies. Entrepreneurs can optimize their fundraising strategy by learning to avoid cash management pitfalls and how investors evaluate startups. Keys to a winning fundraising strategy. Put strategies in place to create a FOMO effect among investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Participants will receive mentorship and guidance from experienced professionals and will have the opportunity to participate in the Singapore FinTech Festival. The XRPL Accelerator program is the first of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and will launch in August 2023, concluding with a Demo Day event in November 2023.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

From this post, deep tech startups can formulate their marketing hiring strategy and attract and cultivate top talent to drive their go-to-market plan. 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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Early KKR executive Donald Herdrich is said to have bought an Apple IIe in 1980 for his children, got a demo of VisiCalc at the electronics store, and that turned into a decisive advantage for KKR going forward. Can costs be reduced, customer support improved, NPS increased, new, previously unprofitable sales opportunities be unlocked?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This annual gathering brings together a dynamic mix of entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists from the surrounding states, creating a fertile ground for innovation, networking, and investment opportunities. Following the afternoon Techstars Demo Day is the Female Founders in Innovation Dinner.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Opportunity sizing. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation.

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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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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Data Engineer : YC Continuity is hiring our first Data Engineer to help us identify promising investment opportunities using data. Research Associate : YC Continuity is seeking a Research Associate to evaluate investment opportunities, lead market research, and help our portfolio companies grow. Learn more. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Chasen says that most beta customers say online learning will be part of their instructional strategy going forward.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone. ” Similarly, Ahmad said that for restaurants, paying substantial third-party ordering fees on all of their orders is “not a sustainable long-term strategy.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. However, most of them tend to go alone and are stuck with cutting checks in their local markets, which limits opportunities. It was there he met more founders like him who were angel investors with impressive portfolios. The interesting bit?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. So definitely a fantastic addition in terms of tech strategy.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

After 15 years of bootstrapping, the energy renovation company is at a crossroads and just closed a $22 million funding round from Felix Capital to make the most of the opportunities in the energy renovation space. Let me insure you : Anna talks to six VCs who explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). The Institute for Corporate Directors in Canada helps its members “ perform their director role effectively and make an appropriate contribution in the boardroom (…) [by offering] professional development programs that provide value-added director education and learning opportunities.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“It’s so easy to throw together a vertical AI demo,” Winfield told TechCrunch. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. “You see a lot of folks who would have been decent SaaS founders, trying to be decent AI founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

During the program, industry “experts” and past founders in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) space will provide participants with “strategic guidance” on product and go-to-market strategy, “while preparing the company for success and future financing from top-tier venture capital firms,” say the organizers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Both believe that while investors have thrown money at virtual events and edtech companies, there is an even bigger opportunity in developing a kind of multiplayer browsing experience that enables people to do much more together online. You can check out a demo of Giggl’s current service below.).

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

These tips range from defining the competitive space to defining and executing the right sales strategy and will help you decide the key actions to take, regardless of your product. Tip #2: The initial sales strategy is essential. But first, some basics. What are early markets? Yet today, we can’t imagine our lives without them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

There are a lot of customer service startups in the market today, and a number of them are seeing huge boosts in their business, and even some consolidation as others snap up tech to make sure they have their own customer service strategies going in the right direction. ” Brown believes that this is the other opportunity to seize.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Next week is Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, in which startups present to the public for the first time after spending three months going through the accelerator. It’s different than demo days prior because it’s smaller. Demo days definitely amplify a brand, but not the one you’d think.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Mobility mavens, June 9 will be here before you know it, and that means it’s time to get your strategy ducks in a row for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. You’ll cover more ground and discover more opportunities with your whole team at your side. Schedule virtual product demos, pitch investors or recruit new talent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

What opportunity have you discovered in the market? Mainly the demo day deck, the email deck and the meeting deck. Demo Day pitch. The conditions for a demo day pitch are pretty peculiar: You have the founder presenting, so the slides don’t need to be self-explanatory. Problem/business opportunity.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Before you begin your video marketing campaign, it’s important to set up a strategy that lays out your ultimate goal and clarifies how you plan on achieving it. A few examples of possible video effects would include music in the background to add some mood, superimposed text or images, voiceovers, and product demos. Add effects.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Because it takes “about 15 touches for a prospect to want to see a demo,” Tong authored a TC+ guide for CEOs who need guidance around hiring and incentivizing SDR teams. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. Breaking Into the Healthcare Monolith: Strategies for working with Payors and Providers with InterSystems. In this session we will discuss the pain points of getting into healthcare, as well as strategies to open doors to these organizations for pilots and sustainable revenue. Investor Reception.

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