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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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 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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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

AUGUST 12, 2022

“It’s comparable to the financial crisis of 2008, when poor financial products were lumped together in order to diversify risk and make them look better than they actually were,” he writes. Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us.

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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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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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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. There is no fork.

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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

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

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

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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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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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

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

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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Drawing from his experience of leading startups through the dot.com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. When it’s OK to leave money on the table.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. I see emails from angel syndicates all the time for companies I hadn’t even given 2 seconds thought about investing and I get full info, pitch deck and info about the round size and timing. All of my partners at Upfront do.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Lumigo’s $29M Series A deck. ” Pitch Deck Teardown: Lumigo’s $29M Series A deck. We will publish on a reduced schedule over Memorial Day weekend; I hope you enjoy the break. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. Image Credits: Lumigo. “That makes perfect sense.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 10, 2021

i2E first got to know Blaine back in 2008 when, as a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, his team placed first in the graduate division of the Donald W. Pitching to real investors during the Governor’s Cup helped me build Roughtail Brewery.”. Luckily I had that experience, and I wasn’t afraid to start. Brewery, Tap Room.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs. What are the most common mistakes in first pitch? They decided to run the fund close to home in West Conshohocken, PA where they still have offices. How do people get access to First Round Capital?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Like always, each episode features an entrepreneur presenting their early pitch deck along with the investor who funded the company. We want to know how the founder hooked the VC, what makes their partnership work and how other founders can improve their storytelling and pitching. days of 2008.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. Let’s be honest – the same is true for VC’s.

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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. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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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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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. If you normally pitch 30 investors to get 3-4 interested in good circumstances all you’ve done by putting off your mess is decrease your odds of getting funded. It is 2010. This doesn’t suit anybody.

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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

These are all emotions I vividly recall from June of 2008. We pitched a tent, gave out water and looked for words to assist. During that time, I served as a small business development center consultant at the University of Northern Iowa.

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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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