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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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. In fact, that''s what I tend to do--at least, what I say that I do.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Detail Orientation / Hands On – One of the easiest ways to rule out people who are pitching to me is when they don’t know the details of their business. I once had a startup team pitch me for an investment where the President of the company led the first call with me on his own. There are easy tell-tale signs.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

It can be a good strategy to bring just the CEO because 1-on-1 rapport is easier to build but if you have equally strong co-founders bring them. Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. Can’t you just demo & talk? Demo could go here]. Competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. True story.) 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC&# – the outline is here. You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Always be Pitching (line stolen from my favorite scene in one of my all-time favorite movies. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Elsewhere on Demo Day, Lydia.ai The moonshots. One year after the rebrand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. To watch the pitches, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Demos – One of the things that most people are bad at and that are hard to standardize is the demo. I have written about how to do a demo before (even though this was in the context of a VC pitch much of it applies). A good demo tells a story. 80% of demos I see are features, functions & benefits.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in. Demo Day pitch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join. Seriously, think about the differences as you create marketing plans that will help you get in front of the right audience.

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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. The pitch: Spathios says it’s a marketplace to book short-term venues and spaces. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). A few things have remained true since that time. Founded in: 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Demo slide. Well, that’s the world Five Flute wants to live in. The company raised a $1.2

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We were forced to rethink the end of our Winter 2020 batch and transformed its demo day to an online-only event. All made changes to their product strategy as necessitated by the new market conditions. We push founders to evolve their ideas, find product market fit, develop their strategy and their story.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. I acknowledge that some investors have as their strategy to make lots of small bets.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Encourage early excitement with unique strategies. But you can still steal some of Apple’s strategies to launch your new business, instill early excitement in your users, and generate buzz. But you can still steal some of Apple’s strategies to launch your new business, instill early excitement in your users, and generate buzz.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

With a rigorous selection process, only the most promising tech-enabled companies get the chance to pitch. Three pitching events happen on the first day of the Conference: Seed Stage, Early Stage, and Growth Stage companies. The Seed Stage Pitch competition winner will be awarded a $500,000 investment.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2023

The focus of the 12-week accelerator program is to equip the companies with the necessary skills and knowledge to take their businesses to the next level, providing best practices in pitching, financial modelling, business strategy, and product development.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

From this post, deep tech startups can formulate their marketing hiring strategy and attract and cultivate top talent to drive their go-to-market plan. They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Having read all of this, I was curious to see how a company tells the above story in the form of a pitch deck to investors. And, perhaps most notably, which parts of the story don’t show on the pitch deck. Cover slide — Commercial and growth strategy. Slides in this deck. Closing slide. Three things to love.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

At TechCrunch Early Stage, she led a session on how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. Conversation > Pitching. One of the greatest shifts in the pitch landscape during the pandemic was the nature of meetings themselves. If you only have 30 minutes, it’s probably not the best time to do a demo. Pace yourself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos. CrunchMatch lets you host private video meetings — pitch investors, recruit new talent or grow your customer base. Your virtual expo booth features lead-generation capabilities. Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. I was pitching on the day, but I was also listening to other pitches. Greenleaf believes these strategies have incredibly helped the firm fund exceptional companies and maintain good relationships with founders. The interesting bit?

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. 50% of these meetings led to pitches to individual partners. About 30% of partner pitches led to full partnership pitches. I suggest use the Founder Institute Mad Libs elevator pitch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Head to the agenda and plan your strategy. Visit their virtual booths, get a product demo and start a conversation. You can also catch Startup Alley founders pitching to TechCrunch staff. Look for the Startup Pitch Feedback Sessions scheduled over all three days. Soak up the pitch deck teardowns and the VC presentations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

FOMO isn’t a strategy, it’s a tactic. We get into how to build a fundraising process , the concept of soft-circling an investor and what Kunst says is one of her biggest pet-peeves in a pitch deck on the site, but I wanted to give you that sneak peek for now. Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I imagine this is how every founder fats on the eve of demo day. Sales and support prepare their pitches. The benefits of such a strategy were many. Third, the strategy instilled anxiety within the competition. Launch day requires collaboration across teams. Marketing must prepare the story and materials.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

This is what my company does, and that’s how I pitch it. Bring your best proof that the world has changed — with data to back you up — and then make a case that winning requires a new strategy. And only much later you explain how your company helps their customer win using this new strategy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Because it takes “about 15 touches for a prospect to want to see a demo,” Tong authored a TC+ guide for CEOs who need guidance around hiring and incentivizing SDR teams. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

While each startup has its own unique strategy and product, the founders behind them all need to answer the same question: Can they make digital learning a preferred mode of pedagogy and comprehension — and not merely a backup — after the pandemic is over ? We’re not really pitching it as pandemic-related,” Chasen said. “No

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

How to build a sales development representative strategy that will fill your B2B pipeline Image Credits: kampee patisena (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Marketing teams deserve all of the credit for crafting innovative campaigns that break through the noise: Convincing someone to try out a new product or service takes real skill!

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