StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. A deck is often the first impression an investor will get at the company, so it needs to look stunning. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. It needs to do that in under 4 minutes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. Five Flute shared its excellent deck with us with only minimal edits, and I’m psyched to share it with you — along with my usual teardown shenanigans. Slides in this deck. Here’s an overview: Cover slide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumers from deceptive business practices, issued an advisory titled “Keep your AI claims in check.” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Last week, the U.S. ” Given the renewed interest, “for companies where AI was previously No.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Fundraising is challenging, especially for deep tech founders who need to get investors excited about a complex technology, a complex sales cycle and a complex risk profile. Based on my experience, here’s how to avoid making the most common mistakes deep tech founders make when pitching investors: Work on your storytelling.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The company agreed to share the pitch deck it used to raise a $10 million Series A so I can take a closer look. (It 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. . Slides in this deck. Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

” Series A : “We have proof of product-market fit ($1M ARR)” — see the company’s Series A pitch deck. .” ” Series A : “We have proof of product-market fit ($1M ARR)” — see the company’s Series A pitch deck. Slides in this deck. Cover slide.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Fundraising it’s not only frustrating, it’s boring. Giving the same pitch, sending the same email, and answering the same questions over and over again. A little more than 8 years have passed since that day, the day of my first fundraising, and as you can already guess, it didn’t end very well. Refresh again. Still nothing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. Fundraising wisdom for any stage.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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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’ve started a company, assembled a super squad of founders, and built out the MVP of your product. It’s going pretty well, and you think it’s the right time to speed up your growth by raising some money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Money doesn’t need to be protected from sudden vibrations or direct sunlight, so the term “dry powder” strikes me as a poor metaphor for the mounds of cash investors were dropping on startups just a few months ago. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. 11 tips to raise smart money for your new business. 11 tips to raise smart money for your new business.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. The fund raise required three in-person pitches, seven Zoom pitches and 30 Zoom calls before closing successfully in August. You may have to give up to 100 presentations – so condense your message.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 3, 2022

Before that, it was only a fun project I thought would be helpful for myself. Does your product really need investment? most side projects don’t need investments. To understand if you need investment, define why’s: Are you building a technology that would take months, or are you not an expert in building it?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 29, 2016

pre-money, you have seven enterprise customers and you're cashflow positive. Oh, and make someone from your 25 person Moldova tech team your co-founder. Don't forget to tell all your founder friends about our ultra-pre-pre-seed program. You shouldn't, because it's still your fault they didn't invest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

“Once you’re on the VC-fueled treadmill, you can’t easily step back off,” he writes. ” It should go without saying, but it’s a bad idea to pitch an investor if you don’t have a solid grasp of how they operate. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. We’ll take your questions, so please follow @techcrunch on Twitter and set a reminder for Monday’s chat. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson. .” yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. You just know it has been a pretty wild ride when Meta can lay off 13% of its staff , and it isn’t even really in the top 10 of crazy things that happened. May next week be slightly more chill for you.

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Reforge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Table of Contents A Brief History of the Memo Sweating (The) Bullets: The Problem with Slide Decks Using a Memo to Help You Clarify, Engage, and Lead After the Memo: Invite Discussion to Make Faster, Better Decisions Putting it All Together What comes to mind when you hear the word “memo”? They’re alive and well.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Have you ever thought about how much one minute can change your life? Now imagine if you were given 10 minutes to pitch the potential of your business? You can’t make your business successful with the simple wave of a magic wand. How exactly can startups launch themselves toward success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. You’re on stage!

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. If you have questions about working and living legally in the United States, please join the conversation. Thanks very much for reading: I hope you have a relaxing weekend. Heinrich Gröller, partner, Speedinvest. Momei Qu, managing director, PSP Growth. PT/11:30 a.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. That notes only told part of the story. I funded them 8 weeks later.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit Credits: Read on Since 2021, I have made it my goal to guide startups to a product market fit in a structured process. And this is crucial: If you don’t have the right product or your targeted audience doesn’t buy, you need to figure out why and work on it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

What’s less clear, however, are the right steps a founder should take to make the most of this virtual world, especially with regards to their fundraising pitch deck. What’s less clear, however, are the right steps a founder should take to make the most of this virtual world, especially with regards to their fundraising pitch deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. If you can meet a partner up front it’s always best but sometimes it’s not possible. Still, “call high&# if you can.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Putting together a script, getting all the footage, and editing everything to perfection—or as close as possible—can eat up enormous chunks of your time. Learn more about how to use AI at work Get the Zapier blog in your inbox. Generative text-to-video apps that take your prompts and generate a video output on the spot.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out.

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StartupNation

JUNE 7, 2021

You’re energized by your idea and engrossed in building the best business concepts possible. While all of this is vital to your business and essential to the success of your company, it’s also critical to keep your sights set on the end result: your exit.

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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

Doesn't fit your personality. But here you are. I hate to tell you this, but your life as an "I don't sell things" person is over. You don’t need sales people, you need sales. You need some feedback from the system so you can continue to iterate on your hires.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

” In his latest TC+ article, Paris Heymann (partner, Index Ventures), shares formulas for calculating Gross Dollar Retention and Net Dollar Retention, two KPIs that provide deep insights into the health of your business. .” Investors have raised expectations around SaaS profitability and growth since the downturn began.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC.&#. Some readers have commented that in today’s world you shouldn’t even need a PowerPoint presentation – in this era you should always just demo your product. Can you just show up without one? Next you want the VC speaking.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Today is Monday, June 6, 2022, and in case you didn’t know, it is also Apple’s WWDC conference, which is what Haje and our other colleagues are focused on today, so you get me solo. Would you like some more?

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 9, 2015

For entrepreneurs, the operative phrase is, “I pitch, therefore I am.” Pitching isn’t only for raising money—it’s for reaching agreement, and agreement can yield many good outcomes including sales, partnerships, and new hires. Here are the key elements of a great pitch. Then bring your own projector. Set the stage.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Investors, myself included, see hundreds, if not thousands, of decks The #1 repeating mistake I see in a deck is that the customer story is missing; moreover, in nearly every pitch deck, the “story” is incomplete or entirely missing. Know your story, own it, and tell it Like anyone else, investors don’t remember data; they remember stories.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

something I’ve expected since I first bought a Rocket ebook reader about 10 years. The ebook reader finally took off roughly 10 years later when Amazon.com and Apple converged on it with hardware and content. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Invested Interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. Or on a sales campaign you’ve finally gotten your project sponsor to take you to the “executive committee&# where decisions are made and budgets are agreed. Congratulations. What could go wrong?

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