Sentences with phrase «demo day pitch»

This made me think of a brilliant phrase from Alex White, the CEO of Next Big Sound, in his TechStars Demo Day pitch.

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To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

For example, Google announced that it will hold its own Women's Demo Day, which will feature women - led startups from around the country pitching to a group of judges at the Googleplex, with the goal of driving investment and providing Google mentorship and introductions to each entrepreneur.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

«This is an increasing risk for businesses, and there's no solution available,» Popper said in a pitch to investors at Y Combinator's Demo Day.

Like most accelerators, this one offered a common workspace, a program of classes and seminars, access to top business mentors, and an opportunity to pitch to investors at a Demo Day.

I love Techstars Demo Days for many reasons, not the least of which is the amazing community that gathers to hear the brief, well - rehearsed pitches from the various start - ups who have spent months planning for this big event.

The program culminates in Demo Day, where founders give a 5 - 10 minute pitch in front of investors and community members, with the hopes of getting funded.

Accelerators offer fixed - term, cohort - based programs, often including professional advice and guidance, that culminate in a public pitch event or demo day.

I think the upshot here is that, if you are trying to stay within 506 (b), then you will need to be careful that you are actually following the previously guidance on 506 (b), meaning that you should confirm that your demo day / pitch event is ACTUALLY private and that your angel group ACTUALLY has substantial and substantive pre-existing relationships, etc..

Last night, AOL Ventures and Betaworks hosted a «reverse» demo day where VCs, not entrepreneurs, did all the pitching.

I will also be invited to demo days and pitch events as appropriate.

The piece gets into how some angel groups, pitch event promoters, and demo day organizers are dealing with new Rule 506 (c).

Hosted by President Obama, White House Demo Day will showcase the talents of innovators around the country, as they pitch ideas and share their stories with potential funders.

BUSINESS INSIDER - May 14 - Emma Tessler and Lauren Kay pitched their startup, The Dating Ring, to a crowded room full of venture capitalists at Y Combinator's Demo Day in 2014.

The program is 3 months long and provides mentoring for your team to improve their business and game quality skills by over 60 top industry mentors, weekly pitch practice, playtesting, field trips to successful game studios and at the end of the program, demo days where you will get the chance to pitch to our global network of investors and publishers.

Demo Day Asia in Shanghai will be the first time Google brings together entrepreneurs from the region, helping them pitch to top investment and venture capital firms.

At the inaugural demo day for the New York - based ed tech accelerator Socratic Labs on Thursday, I heard plenty of compelling pitches from education entrepreneurs set on conquering student debt, using cutting - edge cognitive science to build educational apps and bringing big data and machine learning to literacy.

Second to pitch at the Demo Day was Tomas Alvarez, a co-founder of startup Coincove.