Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I attended events. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

I had the chance to demo the phone for a week after this event in order to give an accurate review and I’ll say that it’s a nice, sturdy piece of hardware in your hand and in your pocket. Android Events Gadgets #attmobilereview Active AT&T S5 Samsung s5 active' And then they spoiled us with two private cabanas.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Sponsorship Opportunities for Events, and other channels.

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UCLA Southern California Santa Monica Pricing 104

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A two-day event that showcased the best indie games from more than 100 different companies and over 150 playable games. There were a couple of games to demo, but the most sought out demo was the horror game, “ Dreadhalls “ Watching people jump or even scream from playing the game shows what the Oculus Rift was capable of.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” LA Female Office Hours. My response was swift, “No! You don’t get it. I want YOU to come.

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles is the only place in the US with a collegiate hackathon, an event where programmers spend hours together programming and building, of that scale and the LA Hacks team from UCLA made sure it was awesome. LA Hacks was a 36-hour event on April 11-13th, attracting high school and collegiate programmers from all over the world.

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UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Green screen keying, real time editable lower thirds, no-latency video switching, quicktime video playback and vector scopes come standard. NewTek also offers their free iVGA plugin so any Windows PC can screen-share with audio over the network, perfect for live casting Skype sessions and Hangouts. In Conclusion.

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Screening Entertainment Content Platform 103

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 18, 2014

Using a similar look as Guilty Gear, where beautiful 2D hand-drawn animations fill the screen. Before I get into the demo, I have a confession to make – I never played a Monster Hunter game before. No hiccups or other graphical issues occurred playing through the demo. Capcom | Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

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Entertainment Class Startup Screening 72

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Sponsorship Opportunities for Events, and other channels. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

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. Forget the second screen, play and interact with video content today.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 17, 2014

A twirling display of large 4K Samsung screens, towering over people and letting them forget whatever else surrounding them. Usually, home appliances at a tech event as large as CES would be put into a corner, but not at Samsung. CES Events Gadgets Personal Samsung CES 2014 dishwasher dryer home appliances TechZulu washer'

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Screening Ideas Mobile Help 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal screening. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Usually there roles are a combination of: Deal sourcing for partners. Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering.

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Help Invest Venture Capital Technical Review 365

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

One of the biggest events in the gaming industry, E3 sets out to give gamer’s a look into some exclusively announced games and a preview of what the future has in store for the industry. The game demo was simple and sweet. The demo only allowed us to play a mode called “Turf Wars”. Nintendo | Super Smash Bros.

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IP Startup Design Training 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. This way we keep the questions fresh and up to date with current events. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Fund raising is an ongoing process and not an event on a workplan. Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you. If they’re not at a minimum you’ve shown that you’re thinking of them and you’ve stayed on their radar screen. They make progress.

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Venture Capital Guide Startup Technical Review 309

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2015

Originally looking like your grandmother’s spectacles with an on-screen display of 80s computer green text, the prototypes were looking far from finished. A curved screen may have peaked interest, but did not do much more. The demo scanned a few angles of the participant’s head and then placed on various 3D model bodies.

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Screening Pricing Ideas Technology 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. We hear they might bring something special to this event….wonder Every ticket includes a FREE appetizers and cocktail reception after the event for you all to mix and mingle.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The Annual TechZulu Startup Forecast is one of our most anticipated events. For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! For those who missed the sold out event, shame on you (just kidding, we’re sorry to have missed you). Enabling Social Change.

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2010

A yellow dot with a wide mouth moves across a black screen, weaving through a colored maze of ghosts while chomping even smaller white dots. Finally, we saw live-demos of fun fighting games like Mortal Kombat, fumbled around Fable III, and flew jetpacks in Halo Reach. Now, forget the joystick.

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Screening Platform Product Technology 58

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Bluefin Labs gave an impressive demo of social TV analytics with real-time ad optimization and social media lift. Other companies that demoed at the conference included SocialShows by NoBox , and iBubblr — a new startup whose originality is suspect. Bluefin links TV shows to ads at scale with social, essentially.

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Conference Beverly Hills Social Media Media 78

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This allows publishers to easily create missions and activities to get people involved more directly than just reading stuff on a screen. Checkout the Photo Scavenger Hunt as a demo of the product. According to Joshua Schachter on his blog , Human.io He says, “Human.io

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Mobile Writing Activity Screening 68

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2010

Each game I played (or watched) seemed to require a lot of fine-tuning via a slider on the 3DS's top screen. It really felt like Mario was jumping out of the screen and back down onto a Koopa. Every tech demo and game that had 3D characters in the gameplay was horrible for me. Therein lies the problem.

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Screening Entertainment Startup Technology 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. How Do You Know if a VC is Engaged? The first meeting is usually with 1–2 people within the VC firm. You might start with a partner in the meeting or it might be a principal or associate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Before the event I wanted to find out what I could about the students. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen.

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Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. Startups weren’t meant to be easy. Back to work.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 31, 2013

At Google I/O a couple years back, showed a demo of Google Glass by watching a French woman holding her baby and recording that moment. As you can see my screen lights up and you can see the Glass unit on. Drew Baumann: It was simple really. But after a while I finally got used to the glasses.

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Google Content Startup Entertainment 80

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A screen writer, nine times out of ten, isn’t going to have a demo reel. They need a demo reel, they need to describe all of their physical characteristics, and they want to have a lot of pictures of themselves. I think we have enough superheroes on the big screen already. How are they going to show their work?

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Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. Startups weren’t meant to be easy. Back to work.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. It’s your job to find a continued way to stay on the radar screen of the VC. This is a demo + a high-level deck. Would you mind if I had a senior training rep call you for 30-minutes to give you a quick demo to get you up to speed?

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

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. They are either the local, geo-coded area you’re in or a world event. The starting screen every time is the camera. More on whom to follow later.

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