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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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

We just had the demo day for our third batch of companies. It''s not a three month program, demo day, and folks move out or move on. We take companies all through the year, and have a demo day once a year with the companies who are ready for demo day, where they present, while other might not.

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Southern California Incubator Startup Ideas 187

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. Jason let them run over their time slot by a long time – the demo was worth seeing and he obviously knew this. As I’m sure Pip.io

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

OVP said it passed due to concerns over commoditization, and after losing NIM's demo phone. Tags: networksinmotion networks motion merger acquisition venture capital. The lesson: "In this business, as in life - timing is everything." READ MORE>>.

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Networking Orange County Redpoint Mission Ventures 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Several large acquisitions have included Oculus being acquired by Facebook for $2B, Maker Studios acquisition by Disney for more than $500M, and more. Email mfgorman@gmail.com if you’d like to demo your gadget, hardware, accessories, etc. If you want a booth, email wonji@nearwoo.com, including a fun activity for the public.

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. If I don’t commit to millions of dollars of acquisitions I will … die? Get yourself in a big demo day competition. So I thought I would. I’ll tell you what is says.

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Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

The coolest part about these products was that most of the were live working demos. Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3.

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Santa Monica PHP Startup JavaScript 90

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs. Measuring customer acquisition is clearly not enough because not all customers stick around. lowering $1.50

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. Everyone is learning from each other and the corporate partners are looking for acquisition, talent, [and more].” Summit Mount Everest from your couch in VR here. Taylor said.

Startup 70

Startup Web Development Design Education 70

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Congrats guys and happy to say we knew you when ( Spotlight: LA Tech Demo Company ) and taking part in the first ever and some of the most EPIC TechZulu #TechCrawl’s.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Get A Demo Table). Now all we need is YOU to: Join us! Suggest a speaker!

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. Jack Bicer: Our next big goal is we''re looking for some funding to, to get our customer acquisition into high gear. What''s next for your startup?

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Symantec Startup Commerce Software 214

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. . · Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. I think the model works well,” said McCann.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We were doing a demo last week, and the quote was�does this really do what you say it does? From this point forward, we'll be scaling on the customer acquisition side. We were surprised, because you would think that would be a given with software, but they had looked at a lot of solutions that didn't do what they said.

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Doc Software Review Help Startup 100

Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Many have exited via successful acquisitions, while others have IPO’ed with the same impressive result. Over the past decade, startups that have been part of the Startup of the Year programs have made new partnerships, grown into household names, and collectively raised billions of dollars in funding.

Startup 70

Startup Competition Google Capital 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. Demo Days will take place in February 2013 in Mountain View, San Francisco, and NYC. 33 companies are in this batch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Get A Demo Table). Now all we need is YOU to: Join us! Partner with us!

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

We only started in February, and we didn''t start coding until March, but even then, after seeing the demo of what we built, our investors were able to see what a great product and market opportunity this was. The other piece, is user acquisition. That made fundraising much easier. It''s the same here in the job space.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

As you know, that company grew through lots of acquisitions, so they had a lot of technology debt. We were features at Running USA in February, and did our soft launch demo, and there has been some real excitement about that. The biggest dislocation, was Active going private, and becoming a really messy conglomerate.

Software 100

Software Activity Startup San Diego 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. What: Spotlight Series Event.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. What: Spotlight Series Event.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

In terms of sectors, it's going to be Internet, Consumer Internet, Software-as-a-Service--though in that area, not enterprise as a Salesforce, but along the lines of business productivity tools and customer acquisition--and also digital media. We would like to syndicate all of our deals, if possible, although we're willing to go it alone.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs. What: Spotlight Series Event.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. Amid criticism, Uber’s CEO fights back: ‘On bad days, I look at our revenue graph’ channels. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Chance was recently featured on Fox News for comments on Facebook’s high profile acquisition of wearable VR company, Oculus, for an impressive $2B – and what that meant for early adopters who initially helped the company get off the ground by funding through Kickstarter.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

These are 5-minute presentations on any topic related to RightScale and range from new technology demos to HR news and of course satire, making the entire audience howl. My favorite is the afternoon where we have a couple of customer or partner presentations followed by almost 20 lightning talks given by employees. from the Wharton School.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. There are so many activities and events that have sprouted this year to support the thriving tech scene in Southern California.

Startup 100

Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. After rejecting the offer, Mike had a team of his best people waiting to ‘kill’ him for turning down an acquisition that would have changed their lives forever financially. Lesson Learned From Rejecting Acquisition Offers. How Hashable Got Buzz.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

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. So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc., during your meeting.

Startup 360

Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360