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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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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

You can sit in a pitch meeting with an investor demoing your product, and hypothesize as to whether or not there will be a market or even a business model for something, or you can role reverse and "Show them the money".

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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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. walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

has now employed the same strategy. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. And of course many small acquisitions work for the buyers when there is a clear strategy for owning the asset or a clear alignment with the team you’re acquiring. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! And who cares, right?

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JANUARY 8, 2014

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. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. And believe me they were vocal about it.

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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 ….

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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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JANUARY 18, 2014

I avoid Demo Days like the plague and have publicly said so. By the time it’s hit demo day I’m too late. Don’t worry about what others think of your investments (other than LPs who need to be persuaded that you have a logical investment strategy). I seek out great entrepreneurs. End of story.

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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.

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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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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. He was to head up UK operations. I did the grunt work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Standing out is key, and demos are among the most powerful tools in a sales team’s arsenal. A survey by Matrix Partners general partner David Skok found that demo close rates range between 20% and 50% for most business-to-business SaaS companies, higher than the typical close rate range in the software industry ( about 26% to 30%).

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. Through many meetings discussing strategy, approach, recruiting, financing, etc. But it seemed to work. I spent one hour with them. And finally it comes down to the good old instinct test.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. Hedge funds, other public investors, corporates, etc. Price matters.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

This post will explore how you can leverage video content in the context of email strategies and take your email marketing campaign to the next level. More so, you can create a follow-up email featuring a demo video that shows how to use the product. Why is video email marketing so effective? Newsletter videos.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

If you're a beginner learning the ropes or a veteran B2C marketer making the shift, trying to work with anything other than a purpose-built B2B email marketing strategy is a recipe for disaster. 6 key strategies for designing a B2B email campaign You get it: B2C or generalized email strategies are a no-go for your B2B campaign.

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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. Pictured, top of page: Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson talking with guests at Pear’s demo day, last week in Menlo Park, Calif. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

.” Today and tomorrow, we’ll have team coverage of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day , including a selection of staff favorites, so be sure to check the site each afternoon. 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Understand Personality Types – One of the benefits of working for a big company (Accenture) was that we had lots of speakers come in and train us in topics like leadership, creativity, presentations, strategy, etc. A perfect meeting gets through the deck quickly, demos a product and still has tons of time for discussion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Day one of Y Combinator’s Demo Day confab for the Winter 2022 batch is over. Social platforms need a music strategy. It could use a social strategy, yeah? We shook up our coverage this year, divvying things up by sector and geography. Our goal was to avoid a huge list, the sort that we compiled in years past.

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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. Participants in the program engaged in weekly workshops and coaching calls, refining their revenue models, competitive strategies, and customer acquisition.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. Our strategy is to get into the top companies extremely early, when prices are lower. Im happy to share that Ive started working (part-time) with Orange Collective. higher valuation cap.

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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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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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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

The way I choose conferences and events, and my strategy once I''m there, is based more around who I''m going to back two years from now than it is who is raising now. 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. But does the data play that out?

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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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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, entrepreneurs often make costly, avoidable errors in their funding strategies. Entrepreneurs can optimize their fundraising strategy by learning to avoid cash management pitfalls and how investors evaluate startups. Keys to a winning fundraising strategy. Put strategies in place to create a FOMO effect among investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

After the panel stay for demos by cocktail experts and chefs, tastings by local producers, and cameos by some of the city's cult food vendors. Our high profile speakers come from the U.S.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Tell them about what you’re up to in your business, show them your product or prototype, tell them your strategy, talk about the deals you’re working on and seek feedback. In the latter case, every time I saw them they had moved the ball forward and evolved their strategy. Update them on your fund raising progress.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Friction in Sales : The traditional sales process involved cold calls and lengthy demos, which were less appealing to modern customers who valued a frictionless experience. Our vision emphasizes that while vertical SaaS can quickly attract a few customers, horizontal SaaS is a long-term strategy.

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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. It’s the exception rather than the rule.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

’s strategy and missteps. On any given day I could have been really pressed for time and asked to get straight to the presentation – you can never predict how the meeting will go so you must be prepared to show a deck, do a demo or just have a conversation. We started by talking about this person’s background.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Winners from the initial competitive event will continue developing their prototypes towards a Minimum Viable Product and present their solutions at a demo day event. After the demo day event, winners will continue working with the Administrator on pilot testing or commercialization of the AI-based software solution.

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