Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

” The other Paul Graham quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. I normally advise “ Raising at the Top End of Normal.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Los Angeles- and London-based MakieLab , one of the companies out of Disney's recent Disney Accelerator class, started shipping its Disney-themed, custom 3D printed dolls on Friday, with clothing and designs from Disney properties.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel. ” Demo Day.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. “Demo is changing the way it runs its accelerator to be rolling recruitment,” said Aaron Blumenthal , a 500 Startups venture partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. As I’m sure Pip.io

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2013

David Padula has served at Activision and Paramount Pictures; Derek Padula has worked as a game designer at Electronic Arts, Activision, and Seven Studios. The company was one of the companies that presented at StartEngine''s demo day back in January.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2017

Join Tech Ladies, General Assembly, and Nastassia with the MIND DESIGNER for a live coaching demo and workshop. Thursday, June 15, 2017 -- Tech Ladies LA: Clarify Your Next Career Move.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The programs--which does not charge fees or take equity from companies in its program--says it is seeking nine early stage startups to take part in its eight-week program, designed to help early stage startups. Startup Boost Los Angeles says its program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google, in Venice.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. “We tuned into a bunch of different digital demo days; one of our advantages was being able to learn from others,” he says.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

A new, interactive application, Braindex --designed for the iPad and iPad mini--lets consumers do just that directly on their tablet. TouchFrame is one of the nine companies which launched themselves at MuckerLab's big Demo Day yesterday, the second class of startups to launch out of the accelerator. Are you smarter than Mike Tyson?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2018

However, my fear soon dissipated as before me was a transparent yellow lady (Job calls her “Goldie”) dancing with the beat — providing a moving demo for gameplay. Behind the design of this game is a woman, Ashley Cooper, who is the developer responsible for the gameplay mechanics that can help a player attain flow.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018 -- TC Sessions: AR/VR is a single-day event designed to facilitate in-depth conversations, hands-on demos and networking opportunities with the industry leaders, content creators and game changers bringing innovation to the masses. See [link] (more)

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Cases Where a Mockup is Not Enough There are a few cases where mockups or clickable prototypes may not be enough: Usability, interaction design, etc. Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have?

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Dan Gilman: We find that when we get an office to see a quick, live demo, 90 percent of them sign up. We''ve designed RxVantage so that it''s simple to use, and because it''s in the cloud they don'' t have to install anything. We''re now able to show a demo for five or ten minutes, and have it installed in 15 to 20 minutes.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based food startup Slice of Sauce , which makes unique "slices" of ketchup designed to make it easier to put sauce on burgers and other foods, has joined Techstars Austin , one of Techstars' many accelerator programs around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. But it seemed to work. I spent one hour with them. I had back-to-backs all week and that’s what it’s like when you squeeze in a last-minute meeting. Could we produce this at cost?

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

“LavaLab, the University of Southern California’s product Incubator, admits the top 5% of design, business, and engineering minds to create innovative products over the course of a semester.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Elon Musk and Tesla unveiled a new electric vehicle--the Cybertruck --last night in a big event, showing off an highly unusual design, made of the same stainless style used on the SpaceX Starship.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

XRC Labs, an accelerator program focused on e-commerce and retail startups, held a demo day for its latest class Thursday, featuring innovations in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies. Consumers are changing faster than the retailers,” and that is resulting in shoppers bypassing traditional stores.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched its first mission of a spacecraft designed to carry human beings into space, sending the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft into space early Saturday morning, and successfully docking the spacecraft at the ISS on Sunday.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. 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.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2016

The LA Dodgers Sports Accelerator offers up connections with the leadership of the Dodgers', its leadership, business units, and industry network, in addition to RG/A's strategic marketing, branding, design, and technology services. The demo day for the group is in November. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2016

According to the LA Dodgers and R/GA, it will select five to seven startups in this new class, giving them access to both the executive leadership team of the Dodgers and its business units, plus access to marketing, branding, design, and technology services. The first LA Dodgers Accelerator included ten companies.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Our primary route is designed to let us see how users will use it in the first few months, so that we can do lots of learning and interacting. We are doing some preview flights, where we're chartering someone else to operate us as a demo experience, starting April 24th and 28th, the two days on both sides of Demo Day at Mucker Lab.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

Electronauts is designed to deliver a social experience, in which players can create music for their surroundings. The new title is immersive, but designed to be played in a social setting, like a party. The one-day event combines onstage conversations about augmented and virtual reality with in-person demos and networking.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

San Diego’s Uprise Energy won the audience vote for best presentation at EvoNexus Demo Day, with a pitch that highlighted how its mobile wind turbines could help alleviate the plight of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria’s apocalyptic devastation. Uprise Energy’s wind turbine is designed “to.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

The startup--led by startup veteran Jonathan Zweig--said the free version of its software makes it easy for people to design and build interactive versions of their mobile apps and games. AppOnboard has been offering up to the tool to many mobile game developers, to help them offer up game previews.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Space may be purchased using the “Demo Table” ticket. Where: Santa Monica, CA (Silicon Beach!). What do you do on a Tech Crawl? Be Part of the Crawl!

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

One company that I previously wrote about trying to change this industry is, Solve Media , (I am not an investor) has created an interesting ad unit designed to drive up brand “engagement&# and recall. We are investing heavily in these changes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The film gives several examples of where not having women included in product decisions has led to poor design by not truly understanding 50%+ of the ultimate consumers. She gives examples ranging from poor auto air bag design (female body types being different) to “Clippy,” the Microsoft assistant that many women found creepy.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. I designed and implemented that system, and that became the first automated software updates. Explain what your service/app is all about?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

Or Apple, which designs its own devices to carry out superior software experience,” explained Ma. ” Our 9 favorite startups from Y Combinator W19 Demo Day 2. “It’s sort of like how the film Ready Player One built its own gadgets for the virtual world.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. When a discussion about the merits of responsive design spontaneously erupted on our thread, we commented from a industry perspective, without simply pitching our product. to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. With all games designed and developed in house, they also work with companies and campaigns to develop specific trivia game applications. Bill received his B.S.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The design could hint at what Lime wants to do with its retail store branding. There will be demos, tutorials, and presentations on how to be safe.” A rendering of Lime’s new office it’s building in San Francisco.

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