Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

Dreamforce is the conference for sales and marketing professionals. 131% of team’s goal for demos – proving that booth traffic wasn’t comprised solely of swag bandits. 50% increase in web traffic which generated twice as many qualified leads to the vs. the average month in 2014. $1M Sexy Slogan + Interactive Demo.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

They can tell you the square foot costs of their property, they can tell you how much they spend on Amazon Web Services every month, they can tell you the 12 features that you’re working on for your next release. One of the large parts of the burn was PR, Marketing and attending conferences.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

Highlighted Panels (for full list, go to the conference agenda ) : The Future of Smart Footwear to discuss connected shoes and the use in sports. Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables used by a trained wolf. Keep up with Wearable Tech LA on the web , or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

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Entertainment Hollywood Pasadena Conference 88

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2010

Each cloud computer has an expandable hard disk, a rich suite of web applications, and acts as a web server publishing content. People can be invited to join a Group Cloud Computer to share files, coordinate schedules, collaborate on documents, participate in online discussions and conference real-time via Skype.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The web is so powerful today, that Croquet allows them to now create truly collaborative applications that could not be done before. I should mention, we were going to Mobile World Congress with Ericcson to demonstrate this on 5G until the conference was canceled, and we're running on an AR device with a partner of ours.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Web Summit. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets. Fortune Brainstorm.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Network Now, Accelerating Conference Networking. A way for conference attendees to find and connect with each other. Anyway, then came the REAL demo pitches and after the final one, judges were off to deliberate.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

They demoed Iconify in June at the Front-End Design Conference in St. It provides a web and mobile solution that is easy to use, uncluttered, and translates to all devices. They kicked around the idea of Iconify until pulling the trigger in early April to set the company in motion. Petersberg, Fl.

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Template Product Design Conference 63

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. If you get a chance to see their demo, take it. Currently, Coincident.TV right now and it will rock your world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0 Folksonomy.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every conference is different. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. A few quick tips on conference communication (that apply to all communication, not just press): 1. Gyft’s team sent a very brief email asking politely to set up a time to demo their product.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I needed to have a plan to be efficient with my time during the 3 day conference. 6 Always do a demo. However,do effortlessly segway into a demo as soon as authentically possible because the most effective communication is visual. 1 Pre Planning. My goal was to fit in at least 40 one on one interviews with hungry start ups.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. Jeremy demos various new programs and websites and shows all kinds of tips and tricks, DIY and other cool stuff. After Tech News, we run Jeremy’s Desktop.

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Social Media Media Blogging Tips 220

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We spoke to Daryl about the firm, the founders, and their use of Amazon Web Services as its back end. We ran into an interesting case at the big Rails conference in Vegas, in fact. When you sign, you sign with your ouse, and it's intuitive, and you have a choice of using a web cam to take a photo of yourself at the same time.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. There is nothing that will focus the mind more than not wanting to be on stage with a demo that bombs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Other signs of engagement are: they ask you to meet with portfolio companies (they want feedback on your product and you), they ask you to meet a colleague, they set up a call to go through a product demo / financial walk-through, they ask to speak with customers, etc. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through.

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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 we would like to thank our global sponsors: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Ven Corps, Twilio, Vertical Response, oDesk, Elance and OpenTok.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

I was also on a few panels and speaking engagements at small conferences and events, just to get our name out there. The first couple of weeks, we were almost like a startup--getting things set up, infrastructure, email, and also doing lots of networking to get back in touch with the guys I've worked with in Southern California.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Alex Quilici. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. Americans watch 5.3 We read less than an hour / day.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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