TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. In 2009, Whurley and Erwin met Ben Lamm at SXSW and they decided to launch Chaotic Moon, which focused on software, mobile development and design, the next year. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company. But the U.S. Chaotic Moon made Whurley rich.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I got in touch with several co-packers and told them I had developed a new line of unsweetened flavored water. It was woman-owned, which I liked, and I went through my pitch with Lisa. We scheduled an initial production run for early April 2005, since it was going to take a while to get everything lined up. Fruit extract.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. Pitch perfect, you might think. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. And managing her and seeing her development has been a great reward to me. He was in it with me helping develop her.

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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. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. You have an “hour” to pitch in your first meeting. Prepare to give your pitch in 30 including Q&A.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. Reputation – Equally, the investor might not be worried about squeezing out your existing VC, per se, but doesn’t want to develop a reputation as a VC with an edge. It is 2010. Most play the gentlemanly sport.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

I took a personal development class in which I was tasked to identify my personal core values. For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows. In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Why buy me?

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