This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2014

Stick around long enough in a big tech community and you''ll see your share of big company evangelists come and go. They want someone who can be a friend to startups--someone with a great network, knows everyone, knows product, technical evangelist. All he had to do was hangout at hackathons and do demos where he wrote code live.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Violators will be prosecuted. No, just kidding.I RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio community building. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. Deal screening. Industry reviews. VC firm admin.

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MARCH 10, 2011

On to of that, connected communities of entrepreneurs are better at incubating and supporting startups now than ever before. Plus, there are a ton of in person networking and educational events related to startups that are free or relatively inexpensive. Online communities provide lots of valuable information as well.

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JUNE 16, 2014

One of the most important assets you have is your network--but it''s not your network of founders. It''s the network of people who respect what you can do for a founder enough to make an intro. It also seems to reinforce a lot of the activities in the community that connect me to interesting non-founders.

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MARCH 29, 2010

Closely just launched at DEMO this week and is the natural evolution of group buying and discount sites—allowing retailers to run these deals on their own in front of their own audiences. Community is one solution I had in mind. Many would run those deals everyday if they could. Enter Closely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day tomorrow. The company’s distribution methods are D2C as well as tapping large dermatology networks, with pricing at $24.49 The products are all natural and developed by dermatologists. for a subscription.

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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. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Given that online communities have grown 3X in the last seven years, reaching revenues of $1.2 But just because digital communities are available and growing in prevalence doesn’t mean they’re all equally beneficial. To find the highest quality communities for you, here are a few non-negotiables to look for. Guiding principles.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Being able to meet new founders, get access to different connections, and grow your own network is something that is always amazing.” The other side of it is experiential.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As it is, we know that curated social networks like Instagram can have negative affects on self image. As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. What will AI-generated images of ourselves do to our own self-image.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. Others, meanwhile, were older and entering menopause, and were in search of community.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. ” So I have gotten comfortable with pseudonymity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. Alchemist’s Ravi Belani also shared plans to announce some news during today’s Demo Day, including that: They’ve raised $2 million from German chemistry company BASF.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. “Bonfire is empowering creators to turn audiences into communities through easy-to-use tools and a no-code platform powered by their social tokens and NFTs. As more guests and hotels join, the shared data creates a powerful network effect.”

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APRIL 3, 2012

meet with tons of companies every week, work hard for their portfolio companies, and are on planes flying around to the important confereneces and demo days". I also (as Fred describes us youngins) "work hard, put in ridiculous hours, are on top of all the latest trends, companies, technologies, etc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. and Asia. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Titus says that the goal is not for everyone to come out with a company, but instead to leave with more people in your network and ideas on how to approach starting your business. In between those sessions is largely spent on team-based collaboration and networking. A team photo.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This annual gathering brings together a dynamic mix of entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists from the surrounding states, creating a fertile ground for innovation, networking, and investment opportunities. Following the afternoon Techstars Demo Day is the Female Founders in Innovation Dinner.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re business has complicated accounting (like many ad network businesses) and if you’re raised enough money to warrant it – a great VP Finance is worth his/her weight in gold. A small refuge from a busy day of shaking hands and demo’ing products. I can’t make this stuff up!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. It is based in Seattle, WA. ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos. Show us your extraordinary tech and talent!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

If you’re eager to introduce your early-stage startup to the top leaders, investors, experts and policy makers across the mobility tech community, don’t just attend TC Sessions: Mobility — exhibit there. A Startup Exhibitor Package lets you showcase your tech, build your network and expand your opportunities for growth and success.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

This wasn't all that surprising, because it's a relatively new community and I'm sure people aren't getting requests everyday from it yet. The same thing happened last night when Tara Hunt demoed Buyosphere at the NY Tech Meetup. She asked for fashion advice, but didn't get it in time to show the full circle demo.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Step 1: Identify and target the right communities The first place you should start with is your network. Ask yourself: “Who in my network has the capability to create a successful company? If you have a limited network, no problem! Quickly identify the people you most admire or would love to work with.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day. Instead, startups could apply and join the community of startups backed by The Family. In exchange for a stake, they could get advice from The Family’s team and network with other people in the community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. The process we were following was focused on optimizing every aspect of the demo request journey, from acquiring visitors to optimizing the demo page and more. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

In addition, Choto says the company offers community and development resources that help them upskill and remain competitive in the global marketplace. This progress has attracted the likes of Techstars and Google to provide them with funding and network.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Next week is Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, in which startups present to the public for the first time after spending three months going through the accelerator. It’s different than demo days prior because it’s smaller. Demo days definitely amplify a brand, but not the one you’d think.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 5, 2023

The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. Looking at this powerful network, we see people from all different backgrounds – each with a unique journey to entrepreneurship. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory , a companion to the YC Startup Directory.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Robot demos. Who doesn’t love robot demos? You’ll see live demos from UC Berkeley, Agility Robotics and others. World-class networking . An online event makes the world your networking oyster. We’ve added a speed networking session to the agenda, too. Add the scheduled networking break to your app.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

I’d rather have a co-founder than do it alone and had a full pipeline with people from my network and other startup communities. Matthew: You gain a whole new network when you meet someone outside of your community. My network grew to include Curtis’ and vice versa.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In the 2000s, the company might rent space at a colocation facility; buy, install, provision and maintain its own servers, storage and networking equipment (as we did at MySpace , putting several new servers online per day ) ; and enter into a series of contracts for ever-changing amounts of bandwidth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ll also be speaking with top VCs and the CEOs of Boston Dynamics, Sarcos, Locus Robotics, Fetch and more, along with demos from researchers and bleeding-edge startups like Agility. We’ve seen the demos and the viral videos, but moving from research to real world is its own complex journey. Putting Robots to Work.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

When meeting with early stage entrepreneurs for the first time, after reviewing a demo or hearing their pitch, I often ask them to articulate what they’re most focused on building. Serial entrepreneurs or those with close ties to the investment community would usually go straight to the big firm. What is a startup really?

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