ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. As with other ABM platforms, the key components of ABM software are hidden from view: You can’t compare the machine learning algorithms based on a demo or marketing materials. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf , a personal-data aggregator that has been the subject of a remarkable amount of controversy but is wildly useful as a data provider to must-see apps like Rapportive and Gist. I live blogged his talk on Google Plus and offer my notes below. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. This may be something simple like a test instance of the software or as hands-on as a live demo session. It helps remove some of the busy work so that you and your team can focus on relationships.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Rather than a product demo – we believe in a “Learning Demo”. We think we can do better. Lessons Learned.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for? Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms. Arris also highlighted that Vidyard is “the only major video hosting platform with a native Salesforce integration.” What does “video personalization” look like?

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Austin-based DRAFT, a mobile app-based investment tool, launched Thursday at DEMO Fall 2014 in San Jose, Calif. The app aggregates all of a user’s […] The post Austin-based DRAFT Debuts at Demo Fall in San Jose appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Curb DRAFT Obsidian Student Loan Benefits Suvola Yunomi'

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor attending Demo Day to assess project maturity or quantify risks.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. Some sites, like Optimizely, prioritize the demo: Others, like Oracle, want you to call their sales team right away: And still more sites (usually lower purchase prices), let you jump in with a free trial, or simply let you purchase on the site. What are you trying to sell?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. TvTak was voted Best Demo at the Social TV Summit in Los Angeles and Tech Aviv New York in July 2011, and was selected in Technonomy3 in Tel Aviv in April 2011. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. VivoText - Company Website.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2020

One of the most useful sets of data is the government purchase order data aggregated in an online database by GovSpend. . If your company is an experienced government contractor and/or you’re looking for a competitive advantage when pursuing government contracts, you can obtain a free demo of the GovSpend purchase order database.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Conversion rate from phone calls to Demos. (If Conversion rate from Demos to Closed Deals. (If If this is low, it means the sales person needs better demo training.) On your inside sales section, I am not sure that maximizing point #3 (dials to demos) is always optimal. Average Deal Size. (If

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2013

But here’s a service that may help: Documents.Me ( www.documents.me ) is a mobile app that aggregates all those important business documents from private, public and email clouds. has been in beta testing since late 2012 after being introduced at DEMO. “Up Documents.Me

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. I attended the Facebook Fund Demo day about a month ago in Palo Alto and it blew me away the pace of innovation and the focus on monetization that came out of this group.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

This means that you will also be able to view liquidity providers and most of the quotes aggregators. The reason you can order in this fashion and so quickly is because of cloud technology as well as putting servers on one platform. This platform offers a depth of market which provides a complete list of quotes of liquidity providers.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Are DEMO's days numbered? Steve Bennet. Yes, although I haven't examined any of these in detail. 7.5 - 10.5% April 12, 2012 6:15 PM. Daniel Sisson. How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► July. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

So if my target demo is on Snapchat — why the f**k would I publish somewhere else? The former is about aggregate numbers and the latter is about the now, now, now that drives consumption. I would also point out that my target audience of entrepreneurs is 18–34, precisely the age that over-indexes on Snapchat.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Similar to Belgian startup Wondergraphs , the idea is to help make sense of structured data – primarily in a professional context – by visualizing it and letting users aggregate, compare, slice, correlate, share, extract (insert more verbs here) figures of any kind. Whatever it was, it was noticeable.

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Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Sometimes the subscription approach works to include venture capital firms, but only for very “hot” company or in a competitive environment, like at a Y-combinator demo day.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Iconfinder: site for icons. iDreamBooks: the Rotten Tomatoes for books. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Oh, one more thing.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

MultiMi aggregates messages from email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and file storage services. Watch a video demo of Zbang’s social inbox : Multimi will face competition from other players in the field like Threadsy, Inbox2 or MailSuite as well as the incumbents in mail.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO).

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

Some workshops, evaluations, demos. You know, in the end we certainly need, in both marketing and the sales process, content that educates—things like eBooks and our weekly newsletter, workshops, and demos, and FAQs, and survey data. What are we doing in terms of getting people to try us? How do we keep that experience very high?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Are DEMO's days numbered?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Customers that converted in the last year that originally reached out for a demo. These insights can fuel better tests, because you can hone in on trends from specific groups over time.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Hanover city in Germany for example, lives solely on conferences!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Evature , a leading provider of free-text search technology for the travel industry, has won the DEMO award for the most game-changing travel innovation at the fourth annual Travel Innovation Summit in Miami as part of the industry-leading PhoCusWright Conference. ISRAEL’S EVATURE WINS TRAVEL INNOVATION AWARD .

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

At the 2009 Demo Day , the company announced on stage that they had secured a round of significant seed funding. In less than one year, SpareFoot has aggregated the largest real time inventory of self storage units on the web. SpareFoot offers consumers a comprehensive comparison shopping experience coupled with exclusive pricing.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Violators will be prosecuted. No, just kidding.I RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bikky aggregates customer data from many disparate and traditionally siloed sources: point of sale, payments, online ordering, loyalty, and reservation data. As a former data scientist, I can say that Bikky’s product is awesome – just ask for a demo to see for yourself! can be made efficiently.

New York City 60

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO).

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. For the purposes of the demo, we did three years of monthly, because it allows me to go into some detail. A persona is not a real person. A persona is not someone you know. A persona is not your most desired customer.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 26, 2010

A WG researcher, PhD in Mechnical Egnineering, demoed a PR2 charges itself by plugging itself into a wall socket. A VP of Engineering from Fwix.com , a local news aggregator. In two years when he graduates, he hopes to have a promising career in robotics. A woman from Palo Alto Daily. I would say that the party was a success.

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Hippoland

MARCH 5, 2017

In other words, say you’re looking to close $500k, you will need enough serious investors such that should they all invest, they would invest approximately $1m in aggregate. We are closing a tranche of funding on X date, which is our Demo Day. Next, you need to create strong urgency with this group of people.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

FC is a YCombinator (YC) company in the current Summer '12 class that will be pitching at next Tuesday's Demo Day. While I will be attending the YC Demo Day next week along with many other Silicon Valley Angels, this is not a public event and difficult to attend for those out of the area. First, a little background on the company.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Are DEMOs days numbered? Has DEMO lost its luster and relevance in 2010? DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences. You can always check out the current and prior product demos at the DEMO site. It was the 15th anniversary and they made a big deal branding the event as Demo@15.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It has high close rates and shorter sales cycles, and some of the usual metrics are lagging indicators (demos attended, proposals sent, and average deal size). If you target demand capture, you need to use intent channels that include paint point SEO, PPC, review websites, affiliates and aggregators, or intent data.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once.

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