Customer Demo Email Screening 
Tech.Co
AUGUST 16, 2017
Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. Here are some of our top recommendations to get you started: Email Finder Tool – Voila Norbert. Customer Outreach Solution – Mailshake. What’s more?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!”
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2016
Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 8, 2009
Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. If a VC “ghosts you” (i.e.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Most VCs I know these days answer emails on vacation.
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