TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you’re starting, you’ll need a brand, strategy and the marketing infrastructure to reach early customers. Our long-term relationships start with a growth strategy workshop, where we identify a north star metric so that everyone is pulling in the same direction from day one. Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day.

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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.” Guest columns fall into two categories: TechCrunch+: Strategies and tactics for building and scaling startups. .” Thanks for reading TC+ this week!

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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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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. I am proud to say that Alphaa.io

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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. Teams use Reforge to align cross-functional or new team members around vetted and frontier concepts for approaching growth, product strategy, retention, and more.

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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. Foundational slides like your problem, solution, total addressable market, competition, and go-to-market strategy slides are not conveying a consistent message. It’s time for your demo.

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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. Circularity is part of our broader Environmental Strategy – discover how Impact Hub Global Network is addressing our time’s most pressing issues here.

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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

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. But what we did early on when we were starting to build this process was we started with having teams write up more of a strategy document it, like, why do we exist?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Just jump into the demo after intros.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This teardown covers all the key sections of a landing page so that you can apply the conversion and copywriting strategies to your startup’s homepage. 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. Customer.io

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors.

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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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