Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2022

Do not use statistics or traditional pitch methods. The last thing an embarrassing product needs is a stiff, traditional advertising pitch. The last thing an embarrassing product needs is a stiff, traditional advertising pitch. Humor is always good, since it brings attention to the product in an approachable way.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting a business is very difficult. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Don’t decide to start a business in isolation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss The art of crafting a pitch deck that impresses investors The EH Podcast returns for a second season (and a revamp) Let’s get to it. Great pitch decks are like works of art Aaron Dinin, PhD is a self-confessed pitch deck snob who obsesses over his slides more than the average entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Within that time frame, you are pitching your heart out to multiple investors and ideally setting a number of meetings, either virtual or in-person. You’re also busy building and constantly tweaking your narrative (and pitch deck) and managing each of those meetings and the necessary followup. The right pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We’re bringing together experts from the Northeast and Silicon Valley to chat through myriad startup core competencies — from fundraising to operations to marketing — and outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. On April 20, we’re excited to bring our show to Boston, Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. It’s remarkably rarely used in VC pitch decks, which I think is a tremendous shame. The good news is that the company seems to know that and tackles its advantages head-on.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 19, 2021

The elevator pitch as we know it today comes from Hollywood. An aspiring screenwriter would corner an unsuspecting executive in an elevator and pitch his/her concept during the time it took to go one floor. If the executive liked the pitch they would stay on until their floor. That’s not an elevator pitch. Where to begin?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

From thoughts on maximizing meeting efficacy and expanding your mindset on goal-setting to improving employee engagement and reaping the benefits of systems and processes, EO members share personal experiences and action steps that can benefit your business. OKRs-Objectives and Key Results-have transformed how I do business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Here’s a handy how-to guide for everything you can expect at TechCrunch Disrupt presented by AT&T on October 18-20 in San Francisco at Moscone West (Oct. Then sign up for a free 10-day trial of Otter Business to highlight key takeaways, ask speakers questions, access Automated Outline summaries and share your notes with colleagues.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

A lot of my work as a consultant involves helping founders come up with a good fundraising story, but a surprising number of founders seem to get stuck on the next step: Finding the right investors and landing a meeting to pitch their companies. What’s your business model? That’s a problem.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

By tapping into the right communities, a business can grow alongside the community, serving its members and themselves at the same time. Idea Generation If you’ll entertain a huge generalization, a business’s primary objective is to solve customer problems. Validate a Solution You have a product idea to solve a problem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Part of being an entrepreneur or small business owner is getting excited about your venture. You obsess over it to the point that most of your daydreams revolve around details of your business plan—which beers you’ll offer at your new pizza place or the color of the walls in your designer boutique. How to Craft a Value Proposition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The closest thing to a common app-style pitching process was through super-connectors in Silicon Valley, who would connect him to 10 investors all on one email thread (talk about FOMO). Some aren’t as immediately thrilled with the idea of automation. Some aren’t as immediately thrilled with the idea of automation.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve added some of those insights here while I work on a more comprehensive resource guide to mapping entrepreneurship ecosystems. I’ve added some of those insights here while I work on a more comprehensive resource guide to mapping entrepreneurship ecosystems. Start here! What is Ecosystem Mapping and Why Do It?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I’m an investor at Supernode Global , an early-stage VC fund based in London.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Now that so many millennials and Gen Z have embraced the option, “we also see opportunities for new BNPL products for small businesses that are looking to reduce cash flow strains or avoid maxing out credit lines,” said Jason Brown, partner at Victory Park Capital. Consumers in every country are getting squeezed on all sides.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

How to Determine if Your Idea for a New Business is Viable? Entrepreneurs often grapple with the viability of their new business ideas, and to shed light on this crucial step, we’ve gathered twenty-one insights from Founders and CEOs. However, this is a big risk, as the market isn’t proven.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Startups from all stages have joined our cohort, from those with just an idea to billion-dollar companies.”. The accelerator collected mentors and speakers like Ryan Wyatt, CEO of Polygon Studios, and Jeff “Jiho” Zirlin, co-founder of Axie Infinity , to help guide the cohort. This crypto winter may be long, but builders remain bullish.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 Floww’s idea is that it showcases startups based on merit only, allowing founders to raise capital by providing investors with data and transparency.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“They simply gauge the relative popularity of your business. ” Creating a consistent brand strategy isn’t a major investment and creating a shared style guide for marketing, design and sales generates positive ROI. .” Banish vanity metrics from your startup’s pitch deck. This makes measuring ROI tricky.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. “[I] realized that great business storytelling is essential to making your ideas shine and grow your career.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

With thousands of gyms across the country forced to close during the pandemic, there’s been an unprecedented opportunity for fitness companies pitching an at-home solution. The idea of having a set routine is a complete fallacy.”. Image via Future. Mandal aims to have 1,000 coaches on the Future platform by this time next year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In six years, I scaled my business from an idea to a seven-figure reality. A year before starting my first company, my cofounders and I were pitching our startup to every startup competitions we knew about. Our last pitch was awarded $15k, so we stashed around $30k (all from competitions) and we started a company.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 23, 2018

I've seen this so many times over: A founder pitches a VC, or several of them, and then they come back from that process with all sorts of new strategy goals or worries that they need to be doing something differently. First off, you need to drop that friend like a ton of bricks, and second, making that ice cream less sweet isn't a good idea.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2013

Do you think it's easier to raise money from people who have been following along for months or even years, or from people that have no idea what you're about? Do you think it's easier to raise money from people who have been following along for months or even years, or from people that have no idea what you're about? Problem solved.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. Wondering how to recruit talent in this landscape? We’ve got a session for it. Struggling to find product market fit? Jess Lee (Sequoia).

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Interest was high, and I had a decision to make: would I go all-in on this new, potentially successful business venture, which would require quitting my job, leveraging every ounce of our family savings and investments, and taking on significant debt? In 2015, the world’s first and only flexible window screen was born.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. The idea was to combine the mechanics of Pokemon Go and Tinder. We decided to do this because online dating looks like a business process, and it takes two weeks from a like to a date.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As you look toward a new year for your business, it’s important to keep new and essential PR tools top of mind as they have the ability to make your outreach and engagement efforts easier and faster than ever before. Digital business card. Editorial calendars.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 23, 2020

According to Harvard Business School research, 95 percent of new products fail in their first year. You may have a great, ground-breaking product idea, but if you haven’t done your due diligence to set your product up for success, you may set yourself up to fail. Define your target audience. Validate your product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

With so much startup activity in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) space it can be a challenge for businesses to figure out which of these SaaS (SaaSes?) Sastrify’s sales pitch to SMEs includes that current customers have seen an average 6.5x are actually useful and worth continuing to shell out for. ” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Because it takes “about 15 touches for a prospect to want to see a demo,” Tong authored a TC+ guide for early-stage CEOs who need guidance around hiring and incentivizing SDR teams. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Corporate venture capitalists are often interested in investing in companies that have products or services that could be used by their own businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. A new arm of the company, Udemy for Business, just secured a 100,000-employee contract with Cisco Systems to offer software, business and technology courses. That startup was DoorDash, by the way.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The foundational principle guiding my approach to task delegation is the recognition of each team member’s unique strengths and developmental aspirations. This approach is not merely about assigning tasks based on current competencies; it also encompasses the strategic nurturing of potential and growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So to get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today. So to get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today. The survey also covers the implications of U.S

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Impact Hub

APRIL 9, 2023

The second one was to establish a talent and innovative social entrepreneurship centre in the country’s capital, where young men and women with business ideas and passion for the creation of social and environmental impact could gather and learn from each other. We have a team capable of carrying out the challenges we set ourselves.

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