This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

I understand that fundraising is hard, but if you do you best to leverage your network to connect to a bunch of investors, and you can''t even get a first meeting, you may have to rethink what you''re up to. And trust me, a demo never makes a difference. It''s a stark contrast to people who beg for "just five minutes" of my time.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

The program featured exclusive networking opportunities, private investor meetings, and demo sessions, solidifying the UAEs role as a global innovation hub. This pioneering event was executed in collaboration with key UAE entities, including Investopia, Future 100, DMCC, Dubai Future Foundation, and Al Tamimi & Company.

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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. Apothecary.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Dreamit works with top healthcare, cybersecurity, and urban technology startups, providing access to extensive customer, industry, and investor networks during its 14-week program. This pandemic is accelerating a trend in more and more startups utilizing remote workforces and closing sales with virtual demos,” states Barsh. “As

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Gust

JULY 25, 2023

Most, but not all, will offer networking opportunities (with the exception of programs that focus heavily on one-on-one mentorship) and most, but not all, will offer some form of funding opportunities, either through direct investment or by leveraging their network of investors for targeted introductions or a demo day-style event.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Today, at Demo, SocialSignIn launched to "solve the problem of businesses knowing more about their online visitors than those standing in their physical location." You can''t connect with your customer in-store if they can''t connect to their network. And they''re not alone. Identity is important.

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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

MAY 4, 2013

The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. I value your insights into industries and your unrivaled networks. With pleasure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

” The other Paul Graham quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. I value your insights into industries and your unrivaled networks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

It’s Demo Day time! Today marks the 30th Demo Day for Alchemist , the enterprise-focused accelerator that helped grow companies like LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Computing and Privacera early on. As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube.

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MAY 11, 2015

Softball is also networking, though, because we have some entrepreneurs, another investor, and a left-handed female infielder who works at a venture bank and turns a double play as well as anyone in the league. E-mail is networking, deal work, due diligence. It's ever present and always on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. inside insight into VC decision-making. Mostly it’s philosophical.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Along with demo space, a $725 Early-Stage Startup Demo Package includes: Four event passes to help your team maximize time and opportunities. Networking done right with our AI-powered CrunchMatch platform. Networking at TechCrunch is opportunity’s secret sauce. Why not make yours one of them? It’s also a bonafide bargain.

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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. So if you don''t see me at a pitch event or a demo day, it''s probably because I''m meeting up with someone from the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. With players like Zynga and Playdom earning nine-fugure millions of dollars it’s clear that there is big money in monetizing social networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. As I’m sure Pip.io

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Three days packed with possibilities, and early-stage founders can wring every ounce of opportunity out of them with an Early-Stage Startup Demo Package. We expect more than 2,000 enthusiastic attendees, where they’ll find 50+ innovative early-stage mobility startups showcasing their tech with hands-on demos. .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. It says its network offers network effects, too — customers have access to all of the retailers on the platform. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.).

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JANUARY 8, 2014

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. someone who can win over the VCs, the CTOs, create content, etc. all at once. In other words, a unicorn.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, social networks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves? So if you present to me and the CEO can’t drive the demo or the financial model themselves it is a BIG RED FLAG. I did the grunt work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

With Y Combinator Demo Day kicking off tomorrow morning, startups in the current batch are hurrying to make a little news before they show off their recent growth to investors. Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1. The list includes Runway , Mono , Pangea and Flux. Add Chums to the mix.

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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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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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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. Many would run those deals everyday if they could. Enter Closely. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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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. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

OmniPACS - Francisco Parin, President & CEO RSVP: [link] Thursday, January 14th 6:00PM: Hackers & Founders NYC Meetup #8 + Demos This month, we'll be hosting a special format of "lightning demos" at Dogpatch Labs in Union Square before usual beer and burgers.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Plus, there are a ton of in person networking and educational events related to startups that are free or relatively inexpensive. The percentage of companies funded at demo days of all these various incubators is bound to go down as well--even as the quality of the companies goes up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. You can say something like, “I was thinking that you might cover a story like, ‘why today’s mobile ad networks don’t benefit most application companies’ and then work me into that story line. Robert’s article is worth reading. I think Robert’s right.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. “Skipper is a new network for hotels and resorts that helps them run their tech stack, acquire customers, and create new revenue streams. As more guests and hotels join, the shared data creates a powerful network effect.” ” GatherMade.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In addition, explore other fishing holes where you might catch small business owners, which may include: Start-up incubators that host demo days, pitch events, and workshops Entrepreneur groups for startups or business accelerators Renting space at a co-working facility such as WeWork or Regus Attending or exhibiting at local business events or fairs (..)

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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. “Men are never going to build this for us, so we have to build it for ourselves,” she says.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Because I had previously met Jack Dorsey through the Union Square Ventures network, in 2009 I was able to grab coffee with him before he launched Square. He demoed the product to me and I wound up being dollars #476 and #477 to be swiped on the very first Square prototype. This is actually easily referenced. I was blown away.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. In our next meeting I asked them how often it crashed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .

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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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