Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Just jump into the demo after intros.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, Its a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Thursday, July 14, 2011 -- Spotlight: LA Tech.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Tags: gogrok online collaboration demo demofall skype voip screen sharing.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2012

The event will include a reception with refreshments, game demonstrations by the student developers, a job fair, and a Big Screen Game Fest with the XBox 360 and a Wii (so far). Put on your game face and come to cheer your favorite school, watch demos and play games. There will be no speeches, just games. There will be prizes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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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

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. On a phone call it’s too easy to be distracted and thumb through paperwork, stare out the window or glance at your computer screen. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

If you have content, APPLY to screen your < 10 min video made in the past year. Email mfgorman@gmail.com if you’d like to demo your gadget, hardware, accessories, etc. Plus New Features added this year: Digital Content Fest: Watch digital content by YouTubers and indie content creators. Register for a 5-6?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. If you’d like to present, APPLY HERE. Diamond Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

I had the chance to demo the phone for a week after this event in order to give an accurate review and I’ll say that it’s a nice, sturdy piece of hardware in your hand and in your pocket. They picked us up in style with a stretch limo. And then they spoiled us with two private cabanas. But how does it perform?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

There is a whole industry being spawned in the Internet video world and especially in the integration of devices (second screen TVs) and the TV experience. This has proved far more effective than small crappy banners at the bottom of each screen.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 18, 2014

Using a similar look as Guilty Gear, where beautiful 2D hand-drawn animations fill the screen. Before I get into the demo, I have a confession to make – I never played a Monster Hunter game before. No hiccups or other graphical issues occurred playing through the demo. Capcom | Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

.” For startups entering program they receive investment capital, access to coworking space at Disney’s creative campus and mentor support and guidance from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities, and have a Demo Day at the campus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal screening. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Most firms have “associates” and “partners” and some have an additional role called a “principal.” ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. Industry reviews.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2013

There were a couple of games to demo, but the most sought out demo was the horror game, “ Dreadhalls “ Watching people jump or even scream from playing the game shows what the Oculus Rift was capable of. IndieCade wasn’t all about the consoles and TV screens.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

This tool is suitable for organizations that want to capture high-quality leads from among their website visitors — be it for capturing consulting inquiries, demo requests, or webinar signups. Lead Capture Tool – Leadformly.

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Tool Startup Help Template 81

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2010

A yellow dot with a wide mouth moves across a black screen, weaving through a colored maze of ghosts while chomping even smaller white dots. Finally, we saw live-demos of fun fighting games like Mortal Kombat, fumbled around Fable III, and flew jetpacks in Halo Reach. Now, forget the joystick.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. The demo is the ceremonial end to the structured part of it, but our focus is really on building a really great business. Forget the second screen, play and interact with video content today.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you. If they’re not at a minimum you’ve shown that you’re thinking of them and you’ve stayed on their radar screen. They get positive product reviews on TechCrunch, GigaOm or Paidcontent.org. They make progress.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

All of the LA Hacks sponsors were displayed around the outer ring of the stadium and the students were greeted by a large glowing LA Hacks logo on the big screens. The demos were high energy and exciting, as several hundred students flooded the floor visiting over 200 submitted projects, which were set up in rows.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Bluefin Labs gave an impressive demo of social TV analytics with real-time ad optimization and social media lift. Other companies that demoed at the conference included SocialShows by NoBox , and iBubblr — a new startup whose originality is suspect. Bluefin links TV shows to ads at scale with social, essentially.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This allows publishers to easily create missions and activities to get people involved more directly than just reading stuff on a screen. Checkout the Photo Scavenger Hunt as a demo of the product. According to Joshua Schachter on his blog , Human.io He says, “Human.io

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Mobile Writing Activity Screening 68

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

The game demo was simple and sweet. The demo level had plenty of secret pipes and entrances for gamers to explore and more hidden items to search throughout the levels. The demo only allowed us to play a mode called “Turf Wars”. The demo started me off on top of a fighter jet fighting off “angels”. Platinum Games Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2010

Each game I played (or watched) seemed to require a lot of fine-tuning via a slider on the 3DS's top screen. It really felt like Mario was jumping out of the screen and back down onto a Koopa. Every tech demo and game that had 3D characters in the gameplay was horrible for me. Therein lies the problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 17, 2014

A twirling display of large 4K Samsung screens, towering over people and letting them forget whatever else surrounding them. Talking and getting some thorough demos about the washer and dryer and the dishwasher has certainly changed my view on what Samsung was doing. It was crowded. E verywhere. one employee implied.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. It’s a toast to those who build and innovate. Diamond Sponsor.

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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. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. The first meeting is usually with 1–2 people within the VC firm. You might start with a partner in the meeting or it might be a principal or associate. It’s hard but not that hard to get a first meeting for talented teams who hustle.

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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. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. Where you planning to demo? Far more expedient.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 31, 2013

At Google I/O a couple years back, showed a demo of Google Glass by watching a French woman holding her baby and recording that moment. As you can see my screen lights up and you can see the Glass unit on. Drew Baumann: It was simple really. But after a while I finally got used to the glasses.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

Think a google maps digital overlay over a police helicopter chase video, with all visible street names and numbers on the screen. The awards and competition ceremony was light-hearted and fun as expert panel: Bruce Sterling, Will Wright, Vernor Vinge, and Jaron Lanier commented on each demo presentation American Idol style.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. It’s a toast to those who build and innovate. View Larger Map.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. Acquiring a competitor with complimentary assets whom we long wanted to beat. That must have been a proud moment in the Betaworks offices.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Groups rehearsed in every way possible, making sure their presentation covered the Problem, the Solution, How it makes Money along with showing off a killer demo. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

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