socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Irvine-based storage-as-a-service provider Zadara Storage said this week that it has opened up a new "demo center" near Munich, Germany, in a collaboration with Intel. According to Zadara, the demo allows customers and prospects to experience its offering live, and test the service using their own configurations.

Services

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2014

Santa Monica-based startup accelerator MuckerLab unveiled its latest class of startups yesterday at its Demo Day, showing off the third class of companies out of its program. demoday demo incubator capital venture software accelerator startup muckerlab' READ MORE>>.

Class

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2015

Pasadena-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Rexter is launching a new product, later today, at the Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day in Seattle.

Product

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. As part of its new pitch, the company is offering a 30-day free trial for any App Store Demo. “Google has been a great partner for us,” Zweig says.

Google

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

On Saturday February 9, Demo Video Lab is holding a one-day event to teach secrets to successfully launching a crowdfunding campaign. It is the most viable way to not only get project funding but more importantly to get customer validation. Demo Video Lab will prevent you from making those common mistakes. Art Project.

Statistics

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing.

Startup

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

launched earlier this year at DEMO. You go on to our site, create a project telling the world what you need, and what increments you're willing to accept it in, and what you're willing to give back for those increments, and you customize your project with your own branding and everything. What is the idea behind Invested.in?

Sites

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.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

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. Which means we’re doing our job.” . I don’t think they serve investors well.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. Can’t you just demo & talk? Demo could go here]. Progress to date of your company (when started, key milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot / beta customers, financing). Details on the solution.

Venture Capital

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2014

Now the clock reads 46:23:50:43, 42, 41… “That’s the amount of time we have left until demo day,” the founder stated with a smile. ” Thursday: 500 Startups’ Batch 8 Demo Day… And we’ll be right there to cover all the action! ” I wondered. Introducing Batch 8.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

” 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.”

Venture Capital

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2012

They're already having a lot of interaction with mentors, some of them have customers and traction, some of them even have investors already lined up.". and Where My Dogs At practiced their demo pitches - a dry run in anticipation of the September 19th demo day. Five startups: Contur , Enplug , FitKit , Afterschool.me

Mentor

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. For investors life is no different.

Software Review

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2015

We built MakeSpace’s logistics systems and customer applications (to see all of your items in storage in beautiful photography) in the first year. Then we launched our service in NYC and in just one year captured 2% of all new storage customers in our target demo in just one year with almost no marketing budget.

Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can always tell during this discussion whether the entrepreneur has logged into their products, talked to their customers, read all the news stories and gotten all of the back channel info on the competition. I’ll start with an obvious one – I talk with the entrepreneur about competitors.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Los Angeles-based electronics e-commerce giant NewEgg said last week that it is opening up a new, retail location, called the Neweggg Hybrid Center , which will let customers demo technology and digital lifestyle products.

City of Industry

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2013

The company was one of the companies that presented at StartEngine''s demo day back in January. According to Fans.lu, its platform provides a storefront for video gaming fans on the desktop, tablet, or mobihle device, and it also handles manufacturing, fulfillment and customer service from its own facility. READ MORE>>.

Organization

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

Metrics

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. The company estimates that it saves its customers roughly half the cost of deploying an in-house fleet for delivery. .

Services

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. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2010

San Diego-based VMIX , a provider of online video publishing tools, said yesterday that it is releasing a new, open source demo application which will enable developers to create Apple iPad video applications. The firm said it hopes the open source app will let developers build out custom video iPad applications quickly.

San Diego

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. As you know, Justin’s is 8-15 year-old girls and he built his music & persona around this demo. You should start by getting out and talking directly with customers as Bieber did.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2015

The company says it has moved into a 25,000 ssquare foot building which combines Memjet's two previous facilities in San Diego, featuring a demo area for customers, and expanded laboratories and corporate offices. San Diego-based Memjet , a developer of color inkjet technology, said it has expanded its headquarters in San Diego.

San Diego

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles says its program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google, in Venice. Matt Stodder, the co-director of the Los Angeles program, says it is seeking companies with the right team, a minimum viable product, customer traction, and viable plan for going forward.

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I wrote about that here – regarding “evangelical sales” In your earliest stages the founders she do much of the selling precisely for the reasons Erin highlights: you need customer feedback to refine your product, your pricing and your differentiation versus the competition. As you grow you need process-driven people.

Startup

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.

Incubator

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. Example: VC , “Do you really think that customers will pay $5,000 / month for your product when there are free versions of X,Y,Z on the market ?

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Make sure you focus on what matters – your customers. Now is your moment to double up on your efforts to understand your customer base.

Startup

Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

It took weeks for the team to assemble code from various sources such as customer sites, beta test locations and demo machines. (For And the first backup from the night before was blank. As was each subsequent backup, on-site and offsite. Big OUCH! Turning to insurance to cover the expense.

Sites

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

The size of the market and the spending there was appealing, and also the fact that we already had customers. Dan Gilman: We find that when we get an office to see a quick, live demo, 90 percent of them sign up. We''re now able to show a demo for five or ten minutes, and have it installed in 15 to 20 minutes.

Marketing

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. I mostly like to have coverage in the tech press where most of my customers (entrepreneurs) and business partners (other VCs) are.

Blogging

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2010

According to DIRECTV, its customers will receive a free software upgrade showing three, dedicated 3D channels to 3D television sets, including Panasonic's VIERA Full HD 3D TVs. Panasonic will be sponsoring the new HD 3D channels for one year. on producing additional, 3D programming to debut in 2010 and 2011.

El Segundo

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

End Game - Some Accelerators spend significant time helping startups hone their pitch for a blow-out Demo Day. In other programs, the goal is to help the companies develop their products and validate their value propositions. Note: full disclosure, I am an investor in Launchpad via Rincon Venture Partners ).

Incubator

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We caught up with Ken Button , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about why the startup already has signed up such customers as California Pizza Kitchen, Obvious Ventures, Fandango, Greenspire, and others to the service. We were doing a demo last week, and the quote was�does this really do what you say it does?

Doc

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

They work through ROI calculations with customers. They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. You need to do weekly calls, regular customer calls with your team, review their pipelines with them, find out when they’re BS’ing you, produce weekly forecasts, etc.

Startup

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google in Venice. Startup Boost says it is looking for companies with the right team, a minimum viable product, customer traction, and viable plan for going forward. Applications for the program will close on March 15th.

Los Angeles