Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 20, 2013
The reason for this is that the executives who founded the company have so much tacit knowledge of how to position their product relative to the competition that they can easily win campaigns when they’re involved. If you need demo tips I’ve covered that before. But that instant product / market fit is rare.
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JANUARY 13, 2011
I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja.
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TechCrunch LA
JUNE 17, 2020
” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6. Hollywood, the founders felt, was the best place to nurture that talent, according to interviews with the founders conducted at the company’s last demo day.
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AUGUST 25, 2013
On my most important ones I spend as much time figuring out what to cut out as I do putting into the writing of it. Many people write email without a “call to action” or reason they’re writing the email. Write to one person at a time. This is critical and was the reason I sat down to write this post.
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MAY 24, 2016
Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. I LOVE writing. But writing takes more time and some days I don’t have that. I’m simply pointing out that by numbers more startups are founded in that younger demo). We’re going to try and do some post-production if we can.
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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.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
The path I went down after a few years was to hire more process driven people and devolved more daily operational ownership to people running individual functions such as product management, sales management, finance, etc. Demos – One of the things that most people are bad at and that are hard to standardize is the demo.
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