Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. 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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Campus has been one of the major centers for after hours startup events in Silicon Beach, and also has hosted a number of demo days and other conferences; the coworking space was founded by Ronen Olshansky and Dan Dato. Cross Campus did not say if it plans to move its trademark lego desk to its new location.

Southern California 153

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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. Who does finance report to? Who does sales report to? But even then I think it’s funny.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

As evidence that it does work, CrunchBase reported that more than 200 companies in YCombinator’s Winter 2023 cohort were funded, and many were scooped up by VCs even before the Demo Days. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables used by a trained wolf. Jose Vargas Ulloa – Tech Reporter, MundoFox TV. Mar Yvette – Lifestyle Reporter, Good Day LA Fox 11. 15 Startups to pitch their products – 2 winners to be announced. Paul Crandell – VP of Marketing, GoPro.

Entertainment 88

Entertainment Hollywood Pasadena Training 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. 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.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch reported a new high of more than 200 companies in YCombinator’s Winter 2019 cohort, and many were scooped up by VCs even before the Demo Days. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. 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.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Technical Review Statistics Startup 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s always impressive to have stand-alone supporting documents for product specifications, sales plan details, and backup financial reports. 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

JANUARY 27, 2013

The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. Remember that while the tech blogs exist to report companies at their infancy, the broader journals do not. They want validation.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The program is set to begin June 30, concluding with an Investor Demo Day in September where each team will present their company to a room of industry leaders and investors. Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas.

Entertainment 102

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. Currently, Coincident.TV

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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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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 6 Always do a demo. However,do effortlessly segway into a demo as soon as authentically possible because the most effective communication is visual. 1 Pre Planning.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

Attendees were treated to 20 characters to choose and beat senselessly, while more than 30 characters are reported to show up in the final game. The game demo was simple and sweet. The demo level had plenty of secret pipes and entrances for gamers to explore and more hidden items to search throughout the levels. Bayonetta 2.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Twitter’s head of TV, Fred Graver reported that “95% of the public social conversation around TV happens on Twitter. Bluefin Labs gave an impressive demo of social TV analytics with real-time ad optimization and social media lift. It’s not a spoiler, it’s a companion.” Bluefin links TV shows to ads at scale with social, essentially.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We attended a fbFund demo day ( which I rarely do but it was put on by my long-time buddy Dave McClure – who hadn’t yet started 500Startups – and Sheryl Sandberg who was much more of a mere mortal back then). The story as reported in Forbes is worthy of your reading directly (small edits below for brevity).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Using open source projects, the idea is to create a technical masterpieces that will make the workplace better whether it’s project management, a customer relations management system, a point of sale system, expense reports, bug creation tools, developer tools, and/or a diferent system that no one’s ever heard of. Sunday August 14th 9am-5pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

“You could feel the energy and excitement from getting everyone together, from the opening party to the inspiring panels; the creative pitches at the hackathon, demo day, angel pitch fest, and student pitch fest; and the good-times bonding from the nightly parties to the beach volleyball court. Demo Day / Angel Pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. Some Angel groups endorse it.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Most emails were nothing short of a report. Gyft’s team sent a very brief email asking politely to set up a time to demo their product. It doesn’t tip over (they tried in the demo to prove it). The visible press pass label is a people magnet – most people you pass want to talk, discuss, pitch.

Press 103

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. In fact, if they run sales they shouldn’t have anybody reporting to them. They set up “ tickler &# lists to remind them of calls and they always make the calls they say they are going to make. They’re always on time. They hit your home runs.

Startup 350

Startup Sales Framework Organization 350

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. The provide them with a custom website with online ticketing, box office software, customer data management, reporting, and marketing tools.

Company 276

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Goldman release a report on us. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. We were hot. I had a plan.

Startup 310

Startup Press Venture Capital Journal 310

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

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.

Company 56

Company Companies Santa Monica Social Media 56

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

She adds that in San Diego, she was responsible for commenting on Environmental Impact Reports, coordinating with city planners, and drafting specs for best practices in C&D recovery/diversion. The firm has applied and set to launch at DEMO this fall. Waste to Energy Experience.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

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. The need for capital there, Chance reports, is much more dire. Clearing the Air. There’s also a diferent fluency in people who invest.

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Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs. What: Spotlight Series Event.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save time and money plus improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. View Larger Map.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Keep it Ready Your application should be presentation ready at all times, this includes: - Demo Applications - Demo Data - Test/QA Applications - Test/QA Data - Documentation Solicit Feedback Dont build technology in a bubble. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

I thought one more encounter and I’m definitely getting reported as the sketchy guest who snuck into the conference to distribute bootleg marketing materials. Twitter hashtag activity resulted in 4 demos. we sure do. I booked it down the stairs and ran to another wing of the hotel to complete my mission. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. lament the coverage they get from journalists who reported the details unfairly. Robert’s article is worth reading. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. I think Robert’s right. I’ve heard many startup CEO’s (and VCs!)

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

I thought one more encounter and I’m definitely getting reported as the sketchy guest who snuck into the conference to distribute bootleg marketing materials. Twitter hashtag activity resulted in 4 demos. we sure do. I booked it down the stairs and ran to another wing of the hotel to complete my mission. .

Marketing 133

Marketing Conference Startup Oracle 133

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see?

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Management.

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