Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. A little Groucho Marx always helps.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

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. Not less work but fewer “things.”

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Most emails were nothing short of a report. I can’t even begin to imagine what investors feel like when they’re being pitched by so many people, week after week, or some CEO’s that receive 2000+ emails each day.

Press 103

Press Email Tips Conference 103

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

You should send “update emails&# that are very short but highlight some of the achievements you made with the intro saying, “since you showed interest in my company I just wanted to provide you a brief update on our progress.&# This is important because it keeps you at the top of the stack in their memory.

Venture Capital 309

Venture Capital Guide Startup Technical Review 309

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. To aim – which means helping sales reps figure out which target customers to focus on. It’s about helping weed out the non-serious leads from the urgent ones. And that leads me to today’s post.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2012

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket (email or real plastic) awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. Prototypes and demos attached.

Summary 97

Summary Technical Review .Net Ideas 97

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. It is for this group that we explore the implications implicit in raising money for growth. Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

He made it clear that this approach would allow the band to re-cut a few of their demos, which he would use to persuade the label to sign the band to a full-fledged recording contract. Some of the contemporary artists he helped develop include: Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Lil’ Kim, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga. Share and Enjoy.

Startup 222

Startup Outsource Development RSS Entrepreneur 222

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

That's super helpful. You had to do demos, go buy the bagels, get on a plane at the drop of a hat to meet a customer, stand for 10 hours at a trade showreally, do whatever you had to do. Those processes are rote, repetitive, and error-prone. Those are the early days.

SaaS 100

SaaS Conference Customer Custom 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket (email or real plastic) awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. Prototypes and demos attached.

Summary 97

Summary Technical Review .Net Ideas 97

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

That's super helpful. You had to do demos, go buy the bagels, get on a plane at the drop of a hat to meet a customer, stand for 10 hours at a trade showreally, do whatever you had to do. Those processes are rote, repetitive, and error-prone. Those are the early days.

SaaS 100

SaaS Conference Customer Custom 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The myShopanion is an iPhone app that just recently launched at DEMO and intends to help bridge the gap between online and real-world shopping. Includes social functionality such as the ability to share product detail and pictures on Facebook and Twitter, as well as by email.

Software Review 58

Software Review Social Media Social Network Product 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

Demos and prototypes are key. They don’t know what questions to ask, so they will likely wait for you to lay out the alternatives and respectfully ask for some financial help in that context. You need all the help you can get to build your network before desperation mode sets in.

Funding 60

Funding Startup Ideas Slides 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com. Distribution.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

“You could feel the energy and excitement from getting everyone together, from the opening party to the inspiring panels; the creative pitches at the hackathon, demo day, angel pitch fest, and student pitch fest; and the good-times bonding from the nightly parties to the beach volleyball court. Demo Day / Angel Pitch.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

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. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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. As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals.

Startup 317

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. Get A Demo Table). Please email us reach@techzulu.com. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I attended the Facebook Fund Demo day about a month ago in Palo Alto and it blew me away the pace of innovation and the focus on monetization that came out of this group. million even before the demo day to help you integrate your social network with dating ambitions. This is one book-end of the cycle. Seems an obvious fit.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map. 7:00 – 7:45pm – check-in.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) pulls assumably free and public data from the CrunchBase database to provide a mobile accessible directory of contacts and company info.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains. What: A Startup Demo event. to 11:00 p.m. Price: FREE. RSVP: [link]. . .

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. The time has finally arrived! RSVP: AGENDA.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. He received a B.S. Dinesh earned his B.S. RSVP: AGENDA.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Towards the end of 2006 I realized that EC2 was transformative and that people needed help understanding it as well as tools to work it. It helps to think positive and focus on the awesome things that are indeed possible.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Chance was recently featured on Fox News for comments on Facebook’s high profile acquisition of wearable VR company, Oculus, for an impressive $2B – and what that meant for early adopters who initially helped the company get off the ground by funding through Kickstarter. To date, we’ve done 11 of these in and outside the US.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

CEO Flow

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I’ve found that this concept is a great analogy to help teams think through laying out their products and offers. Present them with a couple of logical next steps and let them decide how and when to move forward (of course, with some helpful reminders now and then if they’ve stalled). Subscribe to CEOFlow by Email.

Sales 40

Sales Customer Custom Blogging 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company (approx. If you believe that you have a great idea that has a potential to sell and you need help in product development, we are here for your help. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. Get A Demo Table). Please email us reach@techzulu.com. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. It’s a hot but still relatively nascent market area.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. The following day, I again tried asking for access in order to setup everyone’s email. Again, the answer I got was, “I’m on it.”

Startup 100

Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. What: A Startup Demo event. Want to Sponsor? to 11:00 p.m.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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). Lunch is a community based on finding your common ground with other people in order to help make the world more tolerant and thoughtful.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

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. Are you now out looking for opportunities, and are you seeing any good ones?

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Just a month ago they were all email you! There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. We’re just going to have to change our focus a bit. Team losing a bit of confidence in you.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384