TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

In the 5+ years since CLF was founded, we’ve seen firsthand that these partnerships can produce new ideas, new opportunities, and new shifts in culture faster than operating in silos. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Without further ado, here are the five actionable steps that I’ve used to find, assess, and partner with the right co-founder. This is your opportunity to determine if you’re okay with spending 40+ hours together in a high-pressure startup environment. Quickly identify the people you most admire or would love to work with.

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Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Startups that try to mix a non-profit entity with a for-profit entity to share resources don’t work, and scare off investors. Later in the pitch, you can show that you are not a one-trick pony by prioritizing related solutions in your long-term plan. Segment the opportunity. Solve one problem really well.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds. Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today, there’s a wall of new exciting things to look at…including, among other things, an opportunity Neesha has for you if you’re running a space startup: Apply to pitch onstage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 ! Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors. That was yesterday. Startups and VC.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 4, 2020

As a reminder, the YC internship program gives current undergrad and grad students the opportunity to find a great YC-backed and vetted startup. Lastly, below are the one-line pitches from the founders & hiring teams of why you’d be interested in joining them. Lets make APIs dead simple to use, for everyone.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You're company might be trying to get to $500,000 or $3 million in sales, the principles Ryan uses can still work. But by saying NO to one opportunity this opened the opportunity for Simplus to focus more on Salesforce integrations. In hindsight, a perfect mix of focus and a strong partnership. What does this do?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. However, if you don't want to evaluate your inbound deal opportunities, that's the job, my friend. Do they have a Code of Conduct?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 3, 2021

On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000! In addition, the zoom audience members had the opportunity to vote for their favorite presentation and award $1,000 in the People’s Choice Award.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

But a nut that is yet to be cracked is how to add measurable outcomes to the mix. As with every edtech startup, a common tension exists : the platform has to be hard enough to teach consumers something, but fun (or easy) enough for them to actually use it. Over 50,000 students have used its platform to date, the company claims.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 27, 2023

The program helps entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success, discuss business models and financials with experts, expand their network, engage with other entrepreneurs, and develop a pitch deck for funding opportunities. Ammonia will be used to produce fertilizer, the main resource for plant growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. Yes, absolutely.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix. The fintech-focused firm isn’t the only investor to notice these opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

It follows forms of journalism through use of third-party interviews and external expert analysis, researched or reported news, and feature stories. Assume that when I use "brand journalism" below, I'm talking about both forms unless I say otherwise.) Companies use brand journalism to get their presence into that mix.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Corporate Small Business Grants. Specialty Small Business Grants.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. There are a number of great examples of publicly available pitch materials, so draw from ones that you like the most. Mix in humor to show your personality. Many entrepreneurs confide that raising capital is their hardest task. We understand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

When she was building Backstage, she began using runners in her own life, hiring people for one-day help while meeting founders across the country. Backstage Capital’s crowd syndicate, Backstage Flex Fund II and Backstage Opportunity Fund I, also invested in the startup. The Runner team provided the pitch deck. “It’s

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The money will be used to expand its provider network, go in-network and focus on its edtech service. The activities are meant to be bite-sized — used when driving to the grocery store or cooking dinner or playing in the backyard — and tailored for interaction with children. What it does.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 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. Image Credits: Smalls It’s not uncommon for companies to discover opportunities for more aggressive growth, and it’s possible that’s why it decided to take more funds.

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Feedough

JANUARY 29, 2021

This sales technique is personal selling, and it’s an efficient way of increasing sales using in-person interaction. Precisely, it’s a promotional technique where a salesperson: Uses person to person communication: Personal selling involves direct contact of the salesperson and the customer. What Is Personal Selling?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Most companies leverage these organic channels anyway, so adding reciprocity to the mix takes minimal effort. As long as they’re not used excessively, there’s nothing sketchy about reciprocal links. Use a tool like SimilarWeb to check their website traffic statistics. Content and link building. Social media.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The IPO market is sending us mixed messages. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. At TechCrunch Early Stage, she led a session on how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. Have a great weekend.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Soon after, Google unveiled MusicLM, a text-to-music tool that generates songs from a basic prompt; Paul McCartney used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice for a new Beatles track; and Grimes offered creators 50% of the royalties for streams of songs that used an AI clone of her voice. into another person’s voice.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This plan guides their content marketing which drives their website, sales aids, social media, and sales pitch. I’ve had the opportunity to work with multiple marketing teams that just produced content because it was fun, “informative”, and seemed right. Avoid rushing into your launch without a strategy plan.

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