Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. They’re always on time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day. But TechCrunch reporters spend a lot of time talking with startups, hearing pitches and telling their stories; if you’re curious about which companies stood out from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day, read on. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. With Aklivity, teams are relieved of the hodgepodge of integration frameworks and disjointed manual efforts associated with managing streaming APIs today.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For example, Mitre Att&ck framework for classifying threats and alerts (If it’s a SaaS offering) SOC2 certification There are many other certifications such as Common Criteria that provide assurance your product meets minimum requirements. Demo or mock data is better than no data. So, how can you demonstrate value?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

To accomplish this, consider creating a recurring demo-day specifically for sharing surprising user insights rather than merely celebrating the launch of new, but perhaps unvalidated, products and features. Partner with a vendor to create multimedia content featuring teams working in a more forward-thinking way.

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Dream It

MAY 27, 2020

Good founders know the importance of nailing their product demo. Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of MIT Media Lab, famously coined the term, “Demo or die.” While many demo, few excel at it. In this #DreamitDose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh gives founders a simple framework to crush your demo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Friday said adoption has accelerated as the pandemic and resulting growth in e-commerce have driven businesses to realize they’re using “this legacy platform, using outdated frameworks and technologies from a good four or five years ago.” We can quickly migrate the front end and write back-end agnostic code.”

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer The Angel Capital Association’s continued advocacy toward harmonizing and simplifying the existing framework to improve capital raising pathways and expand investment opportunities has yielded successful results for U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has. For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent. But this wasn’t the goal at all.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. It’s mandatory, and collaboration between AT&T and startups at all stages could push the world forward and provide the framework for innovation. It appears to be true accessibility in a framework that works with the existing U.S. Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines “traditional compute IP” from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect, To lay the groundwork for future growth, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Showing customers tangential credentials is an effective way to build trust: positive indicators include team members from a university known for AI experts, a strong demo where the prototype enables prospective customers to visualize outcomes, or a clear business case analysis of how your solution will help them save or make money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

I do not pretend to have a silver bullet,” he says, “but I do have a tried-and-true framework you can use to help you achieve your first million.” .” Thanks for reading TC+ this week!

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The companies collectively raised over 7M dollars at Demo Day, and now have the funding and support to build their startup right out of school vs. working desk jobs at big companies. We have a group chat with our partners where we can get quick advice, and YC’s office hours framework makes it easy to find time to dive deep when we need it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Our workshops help startup teams design a customer journey using the pirate metrics framework and turn that into a clear, step-by-step action plan which they can implement or outsource. Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day. Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

The user experience must flow from the demo to installation to production-level execution and beyond without a hiccup in a reproducible way. It’s best to optimize for adoption, which means making your product easier to install, easier to integrate with existing frameworks, platforms and workflows, etc.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Are demos or trials available before purchase? Signup How do your customers find and sign up for your product? Some key questions to ask yourself include: What channels lead potential customers to your solution? How do they determine if your product meets their needs? What are the steps to become a long-term customer?

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Dream It

JUNE 2, 2022

How to Crush Your Demo When Pitching Customers & Investors Demos are critical to a security startup's success. Managing Partner, Steve Barsh , reminds you to reinforce how you’re solving a big and urgent problem with your demo. This video will help you craft your CISO sales pitch to avoid objections they often raise.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2013

Since then, I’ve tried to keep up-to-date with the myriad coding innovations: new databases (Hadoop, Mongo, Spark, TAO), new web frameworks (Node, Angular, Meteor) and new languages (Go, Clojure). Plus, new frameworks, particularly the server side JS frameworks, enable larger and larger groups of people to become full-stack web developers.

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Reforge

MAY 30, 2023

Members highlighted four main benefits from Reforge for Teams: Develop shared language and frameworks During periods of fast growth, teams hire quickly from all different places. Request a Demo Introducing our New Pricing and Packaging Today, we are introducing a superior pricing structure for teams. You might ask “why?”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot editor demo. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create. But first… what is a game engine, exactly?

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 10, 2020

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce raised the question of whether the regulatory framework is contributing to those barriers. Demo days were also noted as an important opportunity for entrepreneurs without pre-existing funding networks. A challenge many entrepreneurs face is access to funding.

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Dream It

JUNE 2, 2021

Keep reading or watch the dose below for Steve’s easy-to-follow framework that will make your pitch a story that will draw in prospective investors. Use case demo You have a great beginning, you’ve worked through your core slides and dripped traction into your pitch. It’s time for your demo. Now you need the story to come alive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Quote: “Currently users jerry-rig one together with multiple vendors or hard to manage open-source frameworks. Also handles queries, simple integration with cloud providers and smart scheduling to save costs on compute. We are a one-stop shop.”

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The program culminated in a circular Demo Day where startups had a chance to showcase their progress and pitch in front of potential partners and investors. The six startups embedding circularity.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. Let the other A&Rs scout bands, and go to nightclubs, and fall in love with demos. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2022

Here’s a demo that goes into a bit more detail. In the two weeks since launch, MetricFlow has grown to more than 400 Github stars, and is now the most popular metrics framework by that standard. If the definition changes, so do the charts. Updates cascade through the organization.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. And Eric Schmidt came out and talked about this framework of like 70/20/10, 70% on the core, 20% new areas that are showing some traction, 10% R&D.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A general framework for writing a good header: If a visitor reads only your header, they should still know who you are and why they should use your product. But if, for example, you have a demo request CTA and you notice not many people are signing up for it, adding a secondary CTA, such as a free trial, may be worth testing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

We act as a second pair of eyes and assess the project and its assumptions through our frameworks and techniques, such as design sprints and lean canvas. We help clients to validate ideas, as their success is crucial to the outcome of a project. How much of a limitation is that for launching an app?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

We were one of the few companies after YC who did not raise a lot of money on demo day. A lot of things I’ve done, enabling me to take the right decisions, I many times use frameworks that is in that book. If it keeps brewing, you will make money. And the other thing that happened at that time, we were struggling to raise money.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She has been a thought-leader in tech for the past 8 years, her newsletter has 25k subscribers, she was named one of Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 , and she has spoken at numerous panels including at TechCrunch Disrupt, L’Attitude, NFT NYC, and a16z’s Google’s demo day at LA Tech Week 2023. The alphaa.io

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. It seems to be true accessibility in a framework that works with the existing U.S. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x.

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