TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

There will be demos, tutorials, and presentations on how to be safe.” Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.” “Lime would have an opportunity to control the narrative, engage with the local community, and invest in Santa Monica.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Be sure to involve real people and real customers, such as GoPro cameras , with user generated demos and amazing aspirational videos. Include marketing initiatives to educate and help customers. New products being used in unusual ways attract attention, buzz, and followers. Build relationships and partnerships to expand your influence.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2016

The school plans to run "demo days" and other events in the same space. UCLA said that the space will be open to Anderson MBA candidates, undergraduates and graduate students from other schools on campus, and to faculty researchers. The incubator is being sponsored by Cadillac. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90.

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LATechDigest

MAY 30, 2016

Students & Educators — Win $25k in THE MAYOR’S CUP ( link ). STARTUP NEXT Presented Demo Day at Cross Campus. We’re here at @CrossCampus for @StartupnextLA Demo Day with @blakeHcaldwell #startupnext pic.twitter.com/oLBEbb4DeP. KELLY SLATER Sells Man-made Wave Co to World Surf League ( link ).

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. Education became a large facet within the space and focus for Taylor. At his first event, 70 people ended showing up bringing headsets for people to try out – that was a turning point for Taylor. “I

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

.” For startups entering program they receive investment capital, access to coworking space at Disney’s creative campus and mentor support and guidance from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities, and have a Demo Day at the campus.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

In my post I noted the bias in his accent comments and also called b t on his statements that Demo Days are great because “the bad companies look good” and that VCs should compete to “pay the highest price & offer the best terms.” I did so before when he originally uttered the accents comment for the NY Times.

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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

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The purpose of REACH is to explore, educate, and evaluate the future of tech, as well as experience new gadgets first hand. I actually think everyone is a gamer from the age of 4 years old, from your tablet users and educational games to your first generation Playstation users who are probably like 45 years old now.”.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I promise you, if you watch the TechCrunch 40 demos… if you go to sites like Mixergy and you start to hear the stories of entrepreneurs (you will avoid common startup mistakes). . The next thing is I educated myself on how to get into… the start-up world, networking. They see you''re working on your code, you''re showing them demos.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Role of College Education. Unlike many founders who have made it without much college education. She says that her education might have played a great role in getting her where she is today. The firm has applied and set to launch at DEMO this fall.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? We have some very good competitors--EchoSign and DocuSign are the two bigs ones, and are both venture funded--who have spent a lot of money educating the market. That's a good thing for us, because of the legal issues--it's been a lot of education.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. The demo is the ceremonial end to the structured part of it, but our focus is really on building a really great business. There is no right answer many times, just gut instincts and educated guesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Considering one of our demo companies, Causora , is in the business of fostering social change, the topic comes up with a question of whether we’re seeing an overall shift towards widespread awareness… perhaps through the spreading of festival culture? An audience member brings up education. Enabling Social Change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. And who cares, right? A couple of tech giants throw millions around in either cash (for which they have hoards) or part with some publicly traded stock. in their 20′s. I’ll tell you what is says.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

There are so many angles and things to consider and you need to make educated tradeoffs. Apple also demoed their watch. Well the better you understand and know what is possible on the medium you are working on, the better you can provide insight and work on the project.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. If you prefer an elevator, take the ground level entrance on the west side of Building B. Signs will direct you to Korn Hall. Diamond Sponsor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. The reason for “b&# is that most early stage companies survive on “evangelical sales&# as in when you’re having to educate the customer on something new and different and get them to take a leap of faith. They’re always on time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

SBF Demo Day: More than a dozen curated LA startups will pitch at Cross Campus in categories including Accelerator, Startup 2.0, Panels: Developer, Arts/Education; Green, Good and Government. June 18: Hollywood Day at Hollywood Economic Development Summit by Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

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. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

There are many other outlets in the community providing mentorship, education, workshops, and networking, and many others supporting entrepreneurs, but we believe there is a void in the very early stages of formation. We end with a demo day, where the graduate companies from the accelerator will present to investors.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

And graduation is typically marked by an organized “demo day” in which prominent investors, VCs, angels and super angels are invited to attend and see demonstrations and hear presentations from graduating entrepreneurs. Raising money Surrounding yourself with talent'

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company (approx.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire. What: Spotlight Series Event. Price: $15 (Early Bird).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A screen writer, nine times out of ten, isn’t going to have a demo reel. They need a demo reel, they need to describe all of their physical characteristics, and they want to have a lot of pictures of themselves. Another big challenge was you have all of these different positions to showcase. How are they going to show their work?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Think of it as a virtual pitch frame that allows local angel investors to group up and run their own demo days. In addition, they aim to educate entrepreneurs on important topics like: Defining a lead investor and how to find one. A large component of Crowdfunder’s success has been their CrowdfundX concept.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Or to softly educate the customer using phrases like ‘I’m not sure this is a good idea, the way we’ve seen others solve the problem successfully is …’. 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.

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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. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Ryan wants to reinvent education. I’m investing heavily in Internet video. Full stop.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. So I promised the guys that I would come and hang out with companies well before their demo days. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. I can’t really change it because we had a super long lease. We’ll see.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. The bottom line – if you enjoy discussions with people, if you enjoy educating and sharing – these conversations will not only form closer relationships but will be enjoyable for you as well. Robert’s article is worth reading. I think Robert’s right.

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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. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”.

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