Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Founders meet with dozens of potential customers and partners on multi-city Customer Sprints™, pitch leading venture firms during Investor Sprints™, receive hands-on coaching, and gain access to a vast network of experienced alumni and advisors.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

LPs failed to make capital calls in the late 90s during the dot-com bubble burst, after September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008. In 2008-2009, the financial markets seized up, and there were quarters of complete uncertainty, but ultimately VCs started investing again and things normalized. This is not without precedent.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. Founders planning near-term fundraising rounds need to understand that an economic downturn is one of the most difficult times to pitch to investors. Even then, they may still be skeptical.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Shardul joined Index in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got to be able to come out of unsuccessful VC meetings, pull your socks up, and go into the next pitch. Ask any entrepreneur who has been through the recent washout that began in September 2008. Your employees are looking in your eyes for signs of weakness and self doubt. Stories like these are not rare.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Our clients ranged from not-for-profits to luxury boatbuilders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. Perfecting My Pitch. How Hire Santa Started. I went all in.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. We also took one of our large portfolio companies, Ulta, public.

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500

MAY 12, 2020

These highly successful technology startups were all founded during the Great Recession in 2008-2010. The post 5 Tips for Pitching VCs in Virtual Times appeared first on 500 Startups. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are once again fighting through difficult times to both survive and transform the world.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Tinkering: The tinkering period lasted for almost 2 years from 2006 to 2008, where Andrew Mason first launched ‘The Point’ which eventually became Groupon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

I flew to Washington, DC, and sat down with Warren, then-EO Director Bob Strade, and Ben Richter (who also had a programme to pitch to Warren). In the first year (2008), we had a meager budget, limited staff support, and only seven months to pull everything together.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

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. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That’s painful, but for perspective: TechCrunch tracked more than 100,000 tech layoffs between August and December 2008. Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dot-com bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008. Jonathan Martinez, founder, JMStrategy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Lane also suggested that VCs’s enduring focus on presentations and pitch decks rather than “normal, human conversation” continues to negatively impact underrepresented founders, who typically have less experience in the former categories. in 2008 — that’s quite fast!!”

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. You may need more than one pitch deck. You may need more than one pitch deck. The send-ahead deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Gen Z is getting a dose of some economic medicine that has older generations recalling 2008 and 2001, and Uprise is here for it. 10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022. Uprise’s financial recommendations for Gen Z. Image Credits: Uprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. But now I’m nearly 42.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Startup Battlefield — the matriarch of all pitch competitions — is the stuff of tech legend. A little startup by the name of Dropbox competed in the Battlefield at TC50 (the precursor to Disrupt) way back in 2008. Your demo and presentation will be, well, pitch perfect when you deliver it to panels of top VC judges.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2018

At that August Demo Day, each pitch lasted eight minutes. The same is true for fundraising pitches. The fundraising pitches of 2008 highlighted leading indicators of success: the product, the vision, the team. I was attending my first YCombinator Demo Day, maybe three months into my time at Redpoint. Much has changed.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My first YC Demo Day was in Summer of 2008, where my startup and twenty-one others anxiously pitched a room full of investors on what we’d been working so hard to build. Fifteen years later, I’m here as YC’s president kicking off our 37th Demo Day — the one celebrating the Summer 2023 batch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

7 investors explain why they’re all in The $100M venture round is going extinct 5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs And with that, thank you for being here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while; we shared it as a gallery back in 2017 , and these days it isn’t really seen as a good example of how to do a pitch deck. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. There are even LP fund-of-funds who raise capital with a main marketing pitch of providing better access to direct investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The startup, which has raised over $650 million in funding since launching in 2008 , is partially known for its controversial approach to weight loss and dieting. Noom’s scaleback of its coaching services suggests a departure from the platform’s original pitch, which was to combine intelligent nutrition with exercise coaching.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008. It’s the day of the weekly “Waffle Pitch” – a local take on the classic “Falafel Pitch” hosted by many Impact Hubs around the globe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said. How do you prefer to receive pitches? If you study previous compression periods in the ecosystem (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. I’ve always said that the low-interest rate environment that we’ve had really since 2008 has generated an interest-free loan on risky startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In March of 2008, Perry Chen contacted me to ask for my help with fundraising--not the kind of crowd fundraising that he specializes in--but venture capital. When Perry first pitched, Kickstartr was about bands raising money to cut their next album. It was before Kickstarter got its "e" and it was spelled "Kickstartr."

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. ” Europe’s startup ecosystem was still immature and what now seems like aloofness was probably nothing more than a crude way to deter cold pitches from non-venture type businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

days of 2008. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Plus, this episode of TechCrunch Live also includes the TCL Pitch-Off. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. A hedge fund stake investor might also get charged discounted management/carry fees on the AUM they contribute (1-1.5% management fee, 10-15% carry, according to Troutman Pepper ).

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Y Combinator

MAY 30, 2024

I might pitch it differently today depending on who I’m talking to — we do a lot more than that now — but that’s still the simplest distillation. "When the iPhone came out in 2008, that was the true end of my physics career." [We’ve grown], but we’re still the same!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s Thursday, which means that Haje also wrote another installment of his popular Pitch Deck Teardown series on our subscription site TechCrunch Plus. Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dotcom bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008.

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