Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.
socalTECH
JANUARY 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along. We presented at SIGGRAPH this year a demo of a character we called Emily. I fell in love with it.
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SoCal CTO
MARCH 11, 2013
If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have?
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.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 6, 2010
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. And make sure you have some metrics or some way of demonstrating why you believe this is going to be a really big market.
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.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 26, 2016
The Demo Day will be in October 2017. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. Cody Simms: Applications will open in January, on January 17th, 2017, and they will close April 9th, 2017. The program itself will start roughly July 17th, 2017, give or take a day or two.
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