Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. Remember that investors can’t see the business from a demo or prototype, and they won’t appreciate all the love and work you have put into building the product.

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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. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad.

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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. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. Remember that investors can’t see the business from a demo or prototype, and they won’t appreciate all the love and work you have put into building the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. Remember that investors can’t see the business from a demo or prototype, and they won’t appreciate all the love and work you have put into building the product.

Entrepreneur 119

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

Let me show you a demo rather than a business plan.” Demos never go according to plan, and ones that work go on far too long. Remember that investors can’t see the business from a demo or prototype, and they won’t appreciate all the love and work you have put into building the product.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. At the beginning of the night, a couple of the organizers over the weekend worked on a site, StartupKoolaid.com, decided to pitch it as a joke to lighten the mood. Below is the entire USC Startup Weekend Demo Night.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In this article the focus will be on how to successfully attract media attention. In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. I first reviewed the “Alleys and Pavilions” company list provided by the TechCrunch site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

With a room full of investors, founders, media, and tech enthusiasts; and a hilariously dramatic orchestral soundtrack that would show up from time to time (Cal Tech Symphony practice happening on the first floor), there was definitely a strong air of excitement through our different stages of the evening. Bill received his B.S.

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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. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

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. MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Don’t drink it.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Get A Demo Table). TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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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. Based on the success of the RedLaser app, myShopanion has the potential and ability to become a great success with its added layer of social media.

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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. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. with the clips.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! As we enter a world where social media is increasingly becoming less private, users are becoming exposed in new ways.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2015

Media mogul John Battelle, famous for spinning up new media concepts into standards, has been quietly perfecting a new conference model he is branding NewCo , a “festival of innovation.” They are so well-organized,” said DreamHost’s Event and Community Manager Marissa Rosen.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Get A Demo Table). TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Social Media Week is just around the corner starting Sept. It will be a special episode where we will be interviewing all the demoing companies that are participating in StartupDemo and you can see who the companies will be by clicking here. 20-24 and we will be presenting TechZulu Live on location from StartupDemo next Wednesday.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. Erik Rannala: The application process is open as of today, and we have applications on our web site. For those not familiar with accelerators and MuckerLab, explain what it's all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Not to worry because we’ll recap the night with some information on the demos from these up and coming companies located in LA. It uses games that are already established in the app store and will be launching their beta site in the next couple days. The site launched a few months ago. The cost is only $1.29

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Startup Doc Ideas Mobile 73

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. mt) Media Temple, Inc. View Larger Map. Diamond Sponsor.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

In terms of sectors, it's going to be Internet, Consumer Internet, Software-as-a-Service--though in that area, not enterprise as a Salesforce, but along the lines of business productivity tools and customer acquisition--and also digital media. We would like to syndicate all of our deals, if possible, although we're willing to go it alone.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

We take a moment to discuss the investing world at large as Chance clears up some misnomers and provides surprising tidbits: “Media sources love reporting on large, sexy startup deals. Think of it as a virtual pitch frame that allows local angel investors to group up and run their own demo days. Clearing the Air.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ). After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo! Instead, they began thinking of ideas for a new site entirely.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. andi also lets users share text, photos, videos, live panels, and soon even comprehensive queues consitsting of offline and online content in all of your popular social sites including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

They would search through Craigslist and other jobs sites for a film crew and the process of finding people manually was quite cumbersome. Is it kind of like social media platform? A screen writer, nine times out of ten, isn’t going to have a demo reel. RR: Yeah, I am really proud of how the site is looking.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Suggestions for Angel Investors - Feld Thoughts , June 2, 2010 I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. So true, so true, and that's the perspective you must adopt to become adroit in social media."

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. Better than FB, Twitter or any news site. It takes a while to figure out the nav of Discover but once you do it’s a fun way to consume media.

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