{"id":44790,"date":"2023-10-10T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/demos-arent-as-important-as-you-think-for-your-vc-pitch-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:00:31","slug":"demos-arent-as-important-as-you-think-for-your-vc-pitch-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/demos-arent-as-important-as-you-think-for-your-vc-pitch-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Demos aren\u2019t as important as you think for your VC pitch | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper breakout\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">When you\u2019re doing<\/span> stage pitch, a demo can really liven up your connection with the audience. Plus, being able to explain what the product is and does while showing it in action is a great way to make a story visually interesting as well. That makes a lot of sense when you\u2019re pitching in TechCrunch\u2019s Battlefield, for example: If we had to sit through 200 back-to-back pitches where people were only using pitch decks, we\u2019d all be comatose by the end of the first day.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re pitching to VCs to raise money, however, there\u2019s more to it. Before you start planning how you\u2019ll demonstrate your product, you first need to consider whether you need a demo at all. The answer may very well turn out to be \u201cno.\u201d But there are other things you can do instead.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/10\/10\/less-demos-in-your-vc-pitches-plz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re doing stage pitch, a demo can really liven up your connection with the audience. Plus, being able to explain what the product is and does while showing it in action is a great way to make a story visually interesting as well. That makes a lot of sense when you\u2019re pitching in TechCrunch\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}