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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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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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Other effective CTAs for a sales-focused folder might include inviting recipients to connect on social media for updates, offering a limited-time discount on your products or services, or encouraging them to scan a QR code to access exclusive sales materials or product demos. Make CTAs stand out with a contrasting color or larger font size.

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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

MAY 21, 2025

Pictory AI Video Creation from Text Best For: Creating promotional videos, explainers, and social media clips Video marketing continues to dominate in 2025, and Pictory makes it incredibly easy for small businesses to turn text into professional-looking video content.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

The best way to translate all those different data streams coming at you from Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and the intern's experimental TikTok strategy into something that resembles coherent business information is with CRM technology. Additionally, most CRMs offer free trials or demos. Consider your growth plans.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

The platform also requires requesting a demo for detailed pricing information, suggesting a more enterprise-focused approach. The platform’s enterprise features need sales engagement for custom setup, which may delay implementation for larger organizations compared to Campaign Monitor’s more streamlined onboarding.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

energy independence aligned with Washington policies to make domestic battery material production a centerpiece of its industrial strategy which has included more than $6 billion in grants and tax incentives since 2022. The funding is a catalyst for U.S. Aligning with U.S.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

7 proactive strategies to minimize scope creep Use automation to curb scope creep What is scope creep? Whenever possible, make things visual with shared mockups, wireframes , or demos. Table of contents: What is scope creep? Why scope creep haunts project managers What causes scope creep? What are we working on next?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., Related reading: How to craft a winning CRM strategy The best lead management software and tools Beyond the sales pipeline: Using a CRM for customer success This article was originally published in April 2024.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. One strategy I often employ. Where you planning to demo? Have somebody else drive the demo.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2013

Paul''s point is all about being upfront and honest, which is ironic, because Demo Days seem to be one giant dog and pony show where the flashiest, biggest talking companies seem to get the most attention. Hunter Walk''s post on demo days really does a good job of summarizing how I feel about this: ".I’m

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Whether it's an exec announcing a new strategy or a colleague sharing a project update, video is a more personal way to do it—you just have to know how to record a video on your device. I'd recommend searching for "[your mic] best techniques" and watching a demo video or two to understand the best way to approach the mic.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These include shared demo days, affording these startups an invaluable platform to exhibit their projects to a broader audience. It commences with the development of their minimum viable product, followed by a structured scaling strategy and tailored introductions to suitable partners, all under the careful tutelage of Brinc.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

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. The first cohort will begin in June 2023 in New York, with a hybrid approach combining virtual and in-person components, including a Demo Day event in early November.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Our role, then, is threefold: We come up with strategies that we carry out by experimenting with several proven marketing tactics based on our extensive in-house knowledge and experience. I feel this “belief system” is truly essential to any growth marketing strategy. 5 companies doing growth marketing right.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. And for more than a decade, few faucets have been watched more closely than Y Combinator.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos. Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt will discuss how the pandemic changed their investment strategies, the hottest sectors within the mobility industry, the rise of SPACs as a financial instrument and where they plan to put their capital in 2021 and beyond.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Following the afternoon Techstars Demo Day is the Female Founders in Innovation Dinner. These sessions cover topics from market trends and investment strategies to leadership and innovation. On October 9 th the Women in Capital Breakfast will be held that brings togetherfemale investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I imagine this is how every founder fats on the eve of demo day. The benefits of such a strategy were many. Third, the strategy instilled anxiety within the competition. It's the day you reveal to the world the sumtotal of your team's efforts for weeks or months. Launch day requires collaboration across teams.

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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 20, 2021

FOMO isn’t a strategy, it’s a tactic. Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity. . “Who do I think is going to be an investment with such velocity that getting in early is going to be more than worth it as they grow.”. I think this is the best framing I’ve seen about how to drum up excitement for a startup as a founder.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

While each startup has its own unique strategy and product, the founders behind them all need to answer the same question: Can they make digital learning a preferred mode of pedagogy and comprehension — and not merely a backup — after the pandemic is over ? InSpace has a different monetization strategy than other startups.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the last six months alone, we’ve rewritten our entire Demo Day experience (to connect founders with potential investors), re-created the batch experience with both in-house tools and 3rd party integrations, and written software to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and so much more.

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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. Facebook buys Kustomer for $1B to expand into customer service tools.

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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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