demo startup founder strategy 
Paul G. Silva
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Built on the award-winning Forged in the Dark framework, this experiential learning tool places participants in the roles of startup founders racing to bring their vision to life before time and resources run out. Forge the Future allows you to experience these challenges firsthand.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 15, 2009
When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups. I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. And this is how it should be in startups. He was to head up UK operations. I did the grunt work.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
Your product demo crushed. In fact, my personal fund raising strategy is to attend the first meeting by myself. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90. That way when my partners in are in ….
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. has now employed the same strategy. Go do a startup. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo!
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 26, 2010
Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. It had a strategy-setting CEO, a limelight-seeking President and a COO who ran the company.
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
That prototype (and his incredible energy) got him in the door for demos with some pretty incredible companies for a newborn startup. Related: 5 Strategies to Turn Around a Product Launch That Isn’t Working. The post 5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders appeared first on StartupNation.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price.
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