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How to Pitch Like a Shark Tank Winner

StartupNation

In 2013, I set up shop in my garage and started experimenting with different frame materials and designs. As it turns out, trying to change an industry using 100-year-old technology is a bit like turning the Titanic around. What followed was a whirlwind of excitement and anxiety, still mixed with a bit of disbelief.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

But then came Bitcoin and the crypto boom and — also in 2013 — the Snowden revelations, which ripped the veil off the NSA’s “collect it all” mantra, as Booz Allen Hamilton sub-contractor Ed risked it all to dump data on his own (and other) governments’ mass surveillance programs. based cloud services.

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TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform

TechCrunch

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline.

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4 Tips for Reaching Productivity Nirvana in 2016

Entrepreneurs' Organization

That was the goal of The 4-Hour Chef — to teach this toolkit using detailed examples. Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. I was in that pitch too, kind of a year and a half ago when I was leaving. Same thing.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

TechCrunch

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Note that we did not write the descriptions below. ” Bonfire. ” SAVVI.

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