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How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

This is going to be BIG.

A few years ago, I was at Techcrunch Disrupt and this guy taps me on the shoulder as I was chatting in a group. They’re looking to spend only a precious few seconds with each person, forcing you to rush your pitch. He simply extended a handshake and said: “Hi, sorry to interrupt. My name is Alan. They can’t try your product.

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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

Feedough

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. For years I saw companies pitching themselves as “mobile coupon companies&# and I never believed this would be a big idea. For this reason one of the most important companies for me at TC Disrupt was Datasift.

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WorkRamp raises $17M to ramp up its enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Its big pitch is that it has built the tools to make it easy for companies to build their own training and learning materials, incorporating tests, videos, slide shows and more, and by making it easier for companies to build these themselves, the materials themselves become more engaging and less stiff.

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. I learned something new with each pitch deck, each conversation with a Founder, each term sheet, each stock purchase agreement, each follow on financing, each exit event… Of course I expected that by angel investing I would learn about angel investing.

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Welcome to spooky season in startups

TechCrunch

TC’s Rebecca Szkutak wrote about how a pivot helped HopSkipDrive win a difficult pitch to parents: Trust your kids with our ride-sharing services. We’re less than one month away from TechCrunch Disrupt, and I’m already emotional. First up, use code “STARTUPS” for a special reader discount for Disrupt tickets. A few notes.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. More money raised for less dilution.