Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

In return, the accelerator often invests $25,000 to $100,000 in the young enterprise and takes from five to ten percent of the equity in return. At the conclusion of the acceleration period, the company participates in a “demo day” in which institutional investors are invited to review the company in a live pitch session.

Venture Capital 295

Venture Capital Startup Class Invest 295

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2012

Five startups: Contur , Enplug , FitKit , Afterschool.me and Where My Dogs At practiced their demo pitches - a dry run in anticipation of the September 19th demo day. Besides meeting new mentors and exchanging business cards, the main focus of the night were the pitches. They need a lot of practice.

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Mentor Entrepreneur Technology SoCalTech 178

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting an average of five years. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

Ever heard of the band “Five Cool What?” 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. It is unclear if Ron ever shared his opinion of Five Cool What with other music insiders.

Startup 222

Startup Outsource Development RSS Entrepreneur 222

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

It's amazing how much LA tech has grown since we first started Silicon Beach Fest five years ago. To recognize Silicon Beach Fest's five year anniversary of helping grow and connect the LA tech community, we were honored to receive a Certificate of Recognition from LA Mayor Eric Garcetti.

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Marina Del Rey Dollar Shave Club Beverly Hills Startup 100

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Dan Gilman: We find that when we get an office to see a quick, live demo, 90 percent of them sign up. In the past five years, things have changed dramatically. We''re now able to show a demo for five or ten minutes, and have it installed in 15 to 20 minutes. Anyone in the office can pick it up.

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Marketing Software Education Startup 231

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Celebrating five amazing years of LA tech. TechZulu and Digital LA are turning five this month and we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate than with all of you. GadgetReview covers the latest gadget news, reviews and tech deals and will also be celebrating its five year anniversary in Los Angeles. That’s right.

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Technical Review Santa Monica Media News 104

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.

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Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2010

Don’t hesitate to get help from a colleague on a creative demo if you are analytical, or a good writer if you need a strong business plan. Get help from friends and experts. None of us is equally comfortable with, or skilled at all the possible approaches.

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Ideas Summary Entrepreneur Study 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting an average of five years. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

We're looking to help the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Los Angeles, not just funding five or six companies at a time, but bringing in an entire, entrepreneurial community and more broadly industries such as entertainment and technology, and have them come into the space.

Startup 254

Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

In return, the accelerator often invests $25,000 to $100,000 in the young enterprise and takes from five to ten percent of the equity in return. At the conclusion of the acceleration period, the company participates in a “demo day” in which institutional investors are invited to review the company in a live pitch session.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps. That's number two.

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. Diamond Sponsor.

UCLA 104

UCLA Southern California Santa Monica Pricing 104

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Last year’s ARE event was the largest event ever focused on advancing the Augmented Reality industry, with 520 attendees, 90 speakers, 30 hours of sessions, and one of a kind activities such as the ARt Gala, The Auggies Best AR Demo Award, and AR Startup Launchpads. The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event.

Software Review 73

Software Review Case Study Startup Technical Review 73

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. Explain what your service/app is all about?

Startup 214

Startup Symantec Commerce Software 214

LATechDigest

AUGUST 23, 2016

The Los Angeles Dodgers and R/GA Ventures are pleased to announce the five companies chosen for the second LA Dodgers Sports Accelerator. The LA Dodgers And R/GA Announce Second Sports Accelerator Program Companies. Focus is on Growth-Stage Companies and Strategic Business Development. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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Company Companies Design Organization 40

InfoChachkie

MARCH 25, 2013

At the time of Decca's rebuff, the Beatles had been performing under various monikers for nearly five years. Wrong Expectations - According to John Lennon, "I think Decca expected us to be all polished, we were just doing a demo.". This particular failure nearly caused the band to breakup.

Startup 221

Startup RSS Entrepreneur Satisfaction 221

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Wade Eyerly: I spent a couple of years working on presidential campaigns, and then spent the last five years in intelligence, working for the U.S. We are doing some preview flights, where we're chartering someone else to operate us as a demo experience, starting April 24th and 28th, the two days on both sides of Demo Day at Mucker Lab.

Startup 240

Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

InfoChachkie

JULY 4, 2011

Note: This is part II of a five part series. Sam happily agrees, as he knows he will not have to continue selling, once the demo is completed. Instead, he focuses on the immediate objective – to get his Prospect to demo the product. Each package contained five pieces. Sam-I-Am.”. Sam-I-Am Lessons Learned.

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Sales Entrepreneur Startup Product 219

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. Some flew in from overseas, different states and from Silicon Valley to attend.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. You’ll have five minutes of presentation time and five minutes of Q&A. TechZulu and The California Institute of Technology ( CalTech ) are pleased to announce Spotlight: LA Tech Summer.

Santa Monica 82

Santa Monica CalTech Southern California Technology 82

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting five years or longer. The founder needs to remember that investor meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or one or two executives.

Invest 59

Invest Startup Doc Slides 59

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Randy, my business partner, spent five years at Intuit in the Bay Area, working on Quickbooks. We were doing a demo last week, and the quote was�does this really do what you say it does? We have been around software for a long time. We had seen this problem over and over again, and we couldn't find a solution that worked for us.

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Doc Software Review Help Startup 100

Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

A few recent successes include: 2016 winner ShearShare closed a round of funding and won Google Demo Day, TurboAppeal, a 2015 top five finalist, was acquired by Paradigm Tax Group, Maxwell Health, has continued to grow their customer base and has raised almost $57MM since being named Startup of the Year in 2013.

Startup 70

Startup Competition Google Capital 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting an average of five years. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. They need domain knowledge and startup experience. Highlight their level of involvement, and quantify their skin in the game. Financial projections.

Slides 99

Slides Competition Sample Sales 99

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. TechZulu and The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are pleased to announce Spotlight: LA Tech Winter.

CalTech 79

CalTech Idealab Tech Coast Angels Enterprise Forum 79

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Here is a demo of our trading platform: Do you have plans to launch an offline-say SMS-based bitcoin? In five years what will the bitcoin market be like? Who is best suited to use it? There are many startups that deal with Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, some in SMS, some in merchant services.

Southern California 76

Southern California Startup Platform Santa Monica 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I don’t have the patience to sit through a bunch of demos, panels or keynotes. We got to hear many stories of Irish tech successes, meet members of government and business and also have a chance to just chill out over a pint of Guinness or five. I am fairly public about my dislike for attending conferences.

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Conference Startup Web Truecar 392

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. There are five prominent ones in town, Launchpad, Amplify, MuckerLab, StartEngine, and IdeaLab. Most have been involved in some capacity along the way with Startup UCLA, and all will be represented during the demo day. Post navigation.

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. They need domain knowledge and startup experience. Highlight their level of involvement, and quantify their skin in the game. Financial projections.

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years. We end with a demo day, where the graduate companies from the accelerator will present to investors. Kai Tao: First of all, we'd like to see the creation of a thousand companies in the next five years. All of our mentors are investors as well.

Orange County 192

Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

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. 7:00 – 7:45pm – Check-in & Networking. 7:45 – 7:55pm – introductory remarks. 8:35 – 9:00pm – “Superdemo”. Diamond Sponsor.

UCLA 97

UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. They need domain knowledge and startup experience. Highlight their level of involvement, and quantify their skin in the game. Financial projections.

Slides 94

Slides Competition Sample Sales 94

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

It''s easy to use, portable, quick to implement, and it''s now being used by more than 20,000 doctors, which is five percent of the U.S. Uber was one of the opportunities he was seeding, and in the early days, he had a beta version of the Uber app he shoed to me, and he had me hire one black car in San Francisco to demo the concept.

Startup 160

Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Gyft’s team sent a very brief email asking politely to set up a time to demo their product. It doesn’t tip over (they tried in the demo to prove it). I immediately tweeted to Lit Motors: Five minutes later, I had purchased a Catwoman costume on Amazon.com, notified Lit Motors on Twitter, and so it began.

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Press Email Tips Conference 103