Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. 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. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. But it seemed to work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

For example, “I have patented a new tire that will double the wear mileage at half the cost.” For customers, a sample, demo device, or at least a brochure will solidify the message and your readiness to deliver. It’s better to start with a hook than to assume that people will stay with you to hear it at the end.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. Next was Mobile Web America ‘s ultra impressive display of their patent-pending web application that converts most websites into a mobile friendly format. Bill received his B.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

8 patents pending, and world programming finalist. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Early designer of Paypal. Josh Woods: Senior Engineer at BetterWorks. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. There will be technical and product mentors there to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. We checked patents. What about competing patents. His math was correct and I can hardly blame him for taking a guess at what uBeam does but every assumption that he used was wildly inaccurate. ” **. I was not fried.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. Here is how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Opportunity sizing.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. Here is how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Opportunity sizing.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. Most have been involved in some capacity along the way with Startup UCLA, and all will be represented during the demo day. George Thiruvathukal As I wrote above, "Tomorrow, the group will have a second demo day that will be open to the public."

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. Here is how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Opportunity sizing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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