2009 advice pitching strategy 
Dream It
APRIL 3, 2020
In addition to his books, Geoffrey Moore assisted in writing “In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers” for the Harvard Business Review in 2009. His strategy for selling in 2009 is relevant to any economic downturn. Luckily, the strategy can be broken down into 3 steps. What keeps them up at night? What are they ignoring?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 22, 2015
This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. I reached out after the event to learn more.
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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. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . VCs need to go to 20 cities and pitch one firm in each location!” But that’s it.
Startup Grind
AUGUST 13, 2018
Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder? The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win.
StartupNation
JANUARY 20, 2022
In fact, VC-based funding has boomed within the last decade, reaching a whopping $753B worth of investments since 2009. Must-Read: 5 Terms That are Killing Your Startup’s Pitch. Read on to find out more about the advantages and disadvantages of VC funding and some of the smartest places to invest it within the business.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 30, 2024
A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Any advice on how you either kept your confidence through that time or recalibrated? Same thing.
Founders Coop
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?
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