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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” Yet to be a truly effective accelerator, the work must continue the momentum beyond Demo Day.

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To Sell Anything You Need to Know What Makes You Unique

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The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers. You want to be able to demonstrate your product and the best way I call, “A day in the life of …” where you show the demo as though you’re a user with a problem that needs to be solved.

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DMW: LA Game Conference, Workshops and Free Tix For Our Readers!

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We have partnered up with DMW for the LA Game Conference and their Gamification and Transmedia Workshops. With a grand total of over $2400 worth of tickets we are sending 4 lucky (1 to each workshop and 2 to LA Game Conference) TechZulu readers to these amazing events. I want LA Game Conference). FREE tickets of course!

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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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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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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” The other Paul Graham 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. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. I normally advise “ Raising at the Top End of Normal.”

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm. I don’t.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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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. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans.

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