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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

You can sit in a pitch meeting with an investor demoing your product, and hypothesize as to whether or not there will be a market or even a business model for something, or you can role reverse and "Show them the money".

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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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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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

He mixes strategy, research, and hands-on design to make AI feel intuitive, useful, and above all, trustworthy. 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. It’s been a pleasure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. And believe me they were vocal about it.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

It can be a good strategy to bring just the CEO because 1-on-1 rapport is easier to build but if you have equally strong co-founders bring them. Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. Can’t you just demo & talk? Demo could go here]. Competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. It had a strategy-setting CEO, a limelight-seeking President and a COO who ran the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Demos – One of the things that most people are bad at and that are hard to standardize is the demo. I have written about how to do a demo before (even though this was in the context of a VC pitch much of it applies). A good demo tells a story. 80% of demos I see are features, functions & benefits.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Standing out is key, and demos are among the most powerful tools in a sales team’s arsenal. A survey by Matrix Partners general partner David Skok found that demo close rates range between 20% and 50% for most business-to-business SaaS companies, higher than the typical close rate range in the software industry ( about 26% to 30%).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

We’ll discuss general pitching strategies and talk about what he’s looking for at the moment before we take questions from the audience, so please click here to set a reminder so you can join the conversation. Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2022 Demo Day, part 1. On Tuesday, April 5 at 2:30 p.m.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. Through many meetings discussing strategy, approach, recruiting, financing, etc. But it seemed to work. I spent one hour with them. And finally it comes down to the good old instinct test.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. Hedge funds, other public investors, corporates, etc. Price matters.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

This post will explore how you can leverage video content in the context of email strategies and take your email marketing campaign to the next level. More so, you can create a follow-up email featuring a demo video that shows how to use the product. Why is video email marketing so effective? Newsletter videos.

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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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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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. Pictured, top of page: Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson talking with guests at Pear’s demo day, last week in Menlo Park, Calif. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Understand Personality Types – One of the benefits of working for a big company (Accenture) was that we had lots of speakers come in and train us in topics like leadership, creativity, presentations, strategy, etc. A perfect meeting gets through the deck quickly, demos a product and still has tons of time for discussion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Day one of Y Combinator’s Demo Day confab for the Winter 2022 batch is over. Social platforms need a music strategy. It could use a social strategy, yeah? We shook up our coverage this year, divvying things up by sector and geography. Our goal was to avoid a huge list, the sort that we compiled in years past.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join. Seriously, think about the differences as you create marketing plans that will help you get in front of the right audience.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

The way I choose conferences and events, and my strategy once I''m there, is based more around who I''m going to back two years from now than it is who is raising now. So if you don''t see me at a pitch event or a demo day, it''s probably because I''m meeting up with someone from the future. But does the data play that out?

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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. Participants in the program engaged in weekly workshops and coaching calls, refining their revenue models, competitive strategies, and customer acquisition.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

After the panel stay for demos by cocktail experts and chefs, tastings by local producers, and cameos by some of the city's cult food vendors. Our high profile speakers come from the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Tell them about what you’re up to in your business, show them your product or prototype, tell them your strategy, talk about the deals you’re working on and seek feedback. In the latter case, every time I saw them they had moved the ball forward and evolved their strategy. Update them on your fund raising progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. I acknowledge that some investors have as their strategy to make lots of small bets. It’s the exception rather than the rule.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Friction in Sales : The traditional sales process involved cold calls and lengthy demos, which were less appealing to modern customers who valued a frictionless experience. Our vision emphasizes that while vertical SaaS can quickly attract a few customers, horizontal SaaS is a long-term strategy.

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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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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. Our strategy is to get into the top companies extremely early, when prices are lower. Im happy to share that Ive started working (part-time) with Orange Collective. higher valuation cap.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Here are some strategies to help you decide on how to pick the right vendor who would fulfil your business needs. The strategies are outlined in order of how a typical ERP selection system should proceed. During the demo, the vendor will showcase a test script that should include all the possible scenarios you want to see happening.

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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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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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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2023

The focus of the 12-week accelerator program is to equip the companies with the necessary skills and knowledge to take their businesses to the next level, providing best practices in pitching, financial modelling, business strategy, and product development. The program will culminate in a demo day with investors from all over the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you want to see how this works come check out our Nov 10th event in LA and you can see TextPlus demo their iOS5 integration and how they think about the importance of working hand-in-hand with Twitter for their free text messaging apps. Object Communications.

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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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