SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012 -- aunchFEST Demo Night. PROGRAM: Track One: Attracting Funding and Strategic Investors for Startups followed by Panel Market; Track Two: Attracting Funding and Strategic Investors for Startups and Panel: Digital Media, Web Services, Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Games, Consumer Services, Consumer Electronics.

Tech Coast Angels 113

Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Clearstone Pasadena 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

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. They want you to attend demo days. start-ups are overvalued… The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s exhausting.

Startup 317

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2012

Monrovia, California-based unmanned aircraft maker Aerovironment said today that it is looking to demonstrate the use of its small, unmanned aircraft for use in post-disaster communications, for the Federal Communications Commission.

Monrovia 124

Monrovia Marketing Platform Networking 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If they did they would be in constant violation because VCs often see 3-4+ companies in every market that they operation. 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]. Market sizing. Competition.

Venture Capital 340

Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 -- Preccelerator Class 12 Demo Day. The Preccelerator Program Class 12 Demo Day kicks off on October 23rd @ 6:00 pm, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. What a wild ride it has been!

Class 100

Class Product Marketing Company 100

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. One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

Software Review 398

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 398

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Traditional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it likely won’t catapult you to Amazon’s unicorn status , or make waves in the business world. For example, I usually hear about an aggressive marketing budget, with a plan to penetrate a few big retail chains, and some videos to catch your attention on YouTube.

Marketing 170

Marketing Startup Examples Customer 170

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

One of the most obvious places where you see this is in sales & marketing. So he hired an intern plus a junior marketing person and tasked them with mechanising responses. Demos – One of the things that most people are bad at and that are hard to standardize is the demo. A good demo tells a story.

Sales 296

Sales Pricing Startup Customer 296

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 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly.

Angel 254

Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

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. Demo Video Lab will prevent you from making those common mistakes. The post Demo Video Lab | Crowdfunding Secrets to Success appeared first on TechZulu. Art Project. Technological Product.

Statistics 90

Statistics Entertainment Google Web 90

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? 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.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? But I think there is a down side that I see in startups that raise artificially at prices above what a normal market might value. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days.

Venture Capital 348

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 348

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator.

Class 185

Class Startup Seed Funding Entertainment 185

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. One of the large parts of the burn was PR, Marketing and attending conferences.

Entrepreneur 286

Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire Sales 286

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 3, 2011

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 -- UCLA Electric Vehicle - Smart Grid (EV-SG) Living Lab Demo. With the introduction of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt into the automobile marketplace, Electric Vehicles (EVs) are now poised to enter the mass market in the United States.

UCLA 100

UCLA Research Mobile Technology 100

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. You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever.

Entrepreneur 398

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Blogging 398

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

MuckerLab , the Los Angeles startup accelerator headed by Erik Rannala, is presenting its newest startup class today in a Demo Day.

Class 159

Class Startup Incubator Los Angeles 159

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APRIL 1, 2015

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. with further markets being announced later in the year but plans to expand our facilities are already under way. How did we achieve these initial results?

Snapchat 289

Snapchat Press .Net Customer 289

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). 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.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

The firm--which has been seeing intense interest from investors since both the recent MuckerLab demo day and Jason Nazar's LA Demo Day--apparently has significantly boosted its target for its ongoing funding round. The firm has not confirmed the report from PandoDaily. READ MORE>>.

Report 140

Report Santa Monica Funding Santa Barbara 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The offering--the first foray into added services for the site--will provide professional headshots, professional demo reel, and one year of access to its job platform, for $499. GotCast is marketing the package to loved ones interested in getting discovered by Hollywood and on Madison Ave.

Hollywood 183

Hollywood Sites Los Angeles Platform 183

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Some of the highlights from this week from socalTECH's video section , where we're currently featuring community videos from and about local startups:  Perfect Market's Gangnam Style Halloween. Laffster's Mock The Vote Demo. Video demo of Laffster's Mock The Vote political news app. Pitch video for Chewse. Walt Disney Co.

Southern California 149

Southern California Idealab SoCalTech Class 149

InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

Marketing 133

Marketing Conference Startup Oracle 133

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Market Opportunity.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For early stage entrepreneurs seeking funding, building their product and formulating their product / market fit, an Accelerator is a great alternative. For instance, some focus on go-to-market strategies, such as SaaS or Cloud-based technologies, while others concentrate on a particular industry. Many Sizes, Many Fits.

Incubator 238

Incubator Startup News Entrepreneur 238

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. Startup Boost says it provides guidance and coaching on such topics as product-market fit, market sizing, fundraising, and pitch development/presentation. READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles 154

Los Angeles Class Angel Startup 154

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

We thought we''d catch up with Erik on what he''s learned about this market, advice he''d give to companies hoping to get into an accelerator, and what gets a company funding. 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.

Incubator 187

Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

That’s why I started the Sales & Marketing Series and at one point I will do a bunch of posts on the sales methodology we developed at my first company called PUCCKA. They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice. LOVING Balsamiq!

Startup 351

Startup Sales Framework Organization 351

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

The presenter comes out of the meeting proud at having gotten through all 30 slides (and maybe even a demo) with a bunch of smiling faces and nodding heads and no discussion. It’s OK to say things like, “I could see why you might think that Google would go into our market.

Venture Capital 275

Venture Capital Sales Slides Startup 275

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

.” People who have “done it all before” often need bag carriers to assist them, are often accustomed to earning to high of commissions relative to what you can afford and are more equipped to sell once you’re gotten product/market fit. In my post I specifically talked about the integration of marketing and sales.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets. They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane.

Technical Review 419

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 419

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I usually say something like, “I know this market reasonably well so feel free to pick up the pace and drop from 50k feet to 5k feet. OK, I understand your market is big. Can we do a really quick run through your deck so that we save tons of time for a product demo & questions at the end?&#. Then I’m jumping in.

Slides 358

Slides Venture Capital Startup Summary 358

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

And they’re easy to remember because they all begin with an M: management, market, money and above all else momentum. Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT.

Startup 360

Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360

Berkonomics

AUGUST 28, 2014

But an increasing amount is now coming from web sites and YouTube videos created by companies looking for an edge in their marketing efforts. If you are selling a product, a one to two minute demo that is well edited will work wonders for viewer retention. Positioning'

Netflix 166

Netflix Sites Content Entertainment 166

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JANUARY 27, 2013

6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” That helps me figure out whether they’re in my target market or if they’ve raised too much money already.

Blogging 309

Blogging Journal Press Startup 309