Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Take a densely packed forest, add a steep pitch, and throw in a couple feet of fresh snow, and I’m in heaven. My concerns about this potential outcome, which I handicapped would most likely happen later in 2023, has led me to keep my spare capital in money market funds and short-dated US Treasury bills. Its intended destination?

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hospitality investing investment advice 104

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Geolocation is so 2009. Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Undaunted, he went back to work, got some great partners on board, and kept plugging away.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Geolocation is so 2009. Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Undaunted, he went back to work, got some great partners on board, and kept plugging away.

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VC venture capital media board 150

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

When I started in the venture business and met software companies, I never heard the words customer success during pitches or throughout diligence or in board meetings. The steady increasing drumbeat of the Customer Success mantra is reflected in Google search traffic, whose volumes have tripled since 2009. So, why now?

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peer-to-peer SaaS education pitching 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?” I came from a board meeting to here. I can sit on probably eight or nine boards at a time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

If you want to pitch, it’s your last chance to get your applications in. The company has been around since 2009 and just launched a new set of tools. Baseball has come a long way since 1897, when a Princeton math professor designed a pitching machine that ran on gunpowder. A propos events – are you coming to our mobility event?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. For example, as an investor and board member at Uber one might conclude that I am biased to see things in a more positive light. That would only make sense.

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