Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

.” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I have thought a lot about anonymity over the years and actually have enjoyed debating the topic with those passionate about anonymity’s benefits because of course that’s how I learn.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 17, 2015

Want to learn more about the future of augmented and virtual reality? There will be a demo showcasing the hottest augmented/virtual reality companies all over LA. Demo Company: . VR Playhouse is an independent creative studio and production company specializing in VR native experiences. VR Playhouse.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors.

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Tech.Co

JULY 10, 2017

Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. 7:30 pm Demo. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist’s Tues July 25.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Company co-founder Jonathan Zweig has already had one hit as a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur. The company already has offices in London and in cities across the U.S.,

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel. ” Demo Day.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. Su said that shifting to a fully online program was a bit of a shock to the program, which was about one month in when COVID-19’s impact worsened stateside. Yellow investment SketchAR.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. They all want you to come meet companies. They want you to attend demo days. It’s exhausting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. Having a good sales methodology can help you ensure your company runs more disciplined campaigns and focuses scarce resources on your best opportunities. But how would I use it?”.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2019

For today's video interview, we talked with Scott Alderton , of Stubbs, Alderton, and Markiles LLP, about the firm's startup incubator, the Preccelerator. The program recently had a "Demo Day" for some of the recent companies in the incubator. Stubbs Alderton is a longtime supporter and sponsor of socaltech!).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. First, if it’s an early stage company, I don’t need to see a powerpoint deck.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

TechZulu and Schmoozd have joined forces to bring you Startup Demo during Social Media Week. We are selecting 10 startups to demo during the event and the lucky chosen get to do so completely free! What: A Startup Demo event. If you have a startup you would like to showcase at Startup Demo please apply here. Price: FREE.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

As obvious as it seems I assure you that many projects I’m involved with don’t sit down and have hard enough conversations about the need to hit time-based deadlines – so dates slip. There is nothing that will focus the mind more than not wanting to be on stage with a demo that bombs. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Some readers have commented that in today’s world you shouldn’t even need a PowerPoint presentation – in this era you should always just demo your product. I also recently wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. I recommend it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. 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. Have a look at the companies below. with the clips.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. You left the meeting dreaming about money and finally having resources to do all of the things you wanted to do.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Some of the highlights from this week from socalTECH's video section , where we're currently featuring community videos from and about local startups:  Perfect Market's Gangnam Style Halloween. All about startup Chewse, one of the Los Angeles startups to join the Fall 2012 class of 500Startups, and its group food ordering service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. 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. Big difference.].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

I expect that you have a story about how insurance saved you lots of money in your past. Business package policies are inexpensive and comprehensive tools that should be contracted by all companies with any assets to measure and protect. My story about an event that changed business insurance. Sorry about that.)

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

There is a transition in every company from a “seat of the pants&# kind of entrepreneurial company to a “process driven&# mechanized one. Frankly, I’m much more of the former kind of guy and I tire of the routine process & politics required to succeed in a big company. This seldom works. Ditto the CFO.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters. million and take five years, Sekeroglu said.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2010

For those who may not know of DEMO , it is a jammed packed twice a year 2 day conference filled with 6 minute on stage pitches, a demo pit, networking events, and not to mention one of the longest running emerging tech conferences. They are gearing up for DEMO Fall 2010 which is happening Sept. 13-15 in Silicon Valley.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

There’s nothing inherently social about VR. It’s a group experience the company envisions as something similar to Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Before co-founding the company, President Nathan Burba served as the director of Project Holodeck, a USC project aimed at creating a full-body 360-degree VR experience. Shadow in real time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

Why You Need to Be Sure You’re Not the Sucker ” I talked about how VCs (or other investors) get deals sent to them and how to interpret a referral. I wrote here about the importance of proprietary dealflow . I wrote here about why I avoid party rounds. I avoid Demo Days like the plague and have publicly said so.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. Yet they turned-out each and every week of our six-week programs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

StatMuse , one of the companies to emerge out of the Disney Accelerator in Burbank last fall, said this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Techstars, The Walt Disney Company, Allen & Co., Greycroft Partners, Promus Ventures, Haas Portman, Deep Fork Capital, and Bee Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I was the judge.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Whatever your choice, workers today (especially in the tech industry) will do just about anything to be more productive. A detailed piece in Fast Company outlines how extreme sports (professional surfing, steep incline skiing, skydiving etc.) After playing in this world for an hour, I called Job and learned more about his company.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

MuckerLab is one of a number of accelerators who have managed to scoop up venture funding for its companies, with such portfolio companies Surf Air, Retention Science, Wallaby, Chromatik, and others. We just had the demo day for our third batch of companies. How are things going over there at MuckerLab?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

There are a few reasons why rct studio, which is keeping mum about the meaning of its deliberately lower-cased name for later revelation, is going for the computer-generated world. At the center of the project is the company’s proprietary engine, Morpheus. The company has a few imminent tasks before achieving its Westworld dream.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). I don’t. Co-founder discontent.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

There is a lot to say about retaining control. My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It’s an expansion of video efforts that the company began last year with the launch of a new app for AppleTV and Amazon Fire. In early 2017, the company debuted its streaming FabFitFunTV , which includes shows focused on health and fitness, cooking, dating & relationships, and do it yourself projects. 24 to Oct. 24 to Oct.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. If they did they would be in constant violation because VCs often see 3-4+ companies in every market that they operation. Demo could go here].

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Given the company is calling this a lifestyle store, the focus will likely be on showing how Lime’s scooters and bikes can become part of people’s lives and enhance their happiness, rather than on maximizing rental volume. There will be demos, tutorials, and presentations on how to be safe.”

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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