TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before.

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MAY 9, 2012

Sometimes Principals can lead deals and sit on boards, sometimes they can't. When I first sat down with Josh back in September of 2009 to talk about joining First Round. It will be clear that those are capped positions that get refreshed every few years like working at a bank.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. I pitch a lot of LPs. In the original version of his post, Andy writes. I rest my case.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. The “team beneath the team&# was as talented as any top team that pitches me startups. I took for granted that having the team mostly on board was enough. I have to love both – but it’s in that proportion. Will we get there?

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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. So he said he plans to live in the present, riding this potentially short-term wave of loose monetary policy and racking up some runs on the board. One way I achieve mental clarity and live in the present is through skiing.

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MAY 27, 2010

Geolocation is so 2009. Sometimes it pays to jump on board before a lot of big questions have been answered—simply because you can feel the market starting to notice it and create mindshare momentum. Undaunted, he went back to work, got some great partners on board, and kept plugging away. Haven’t you heard?

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MAY 27, 2010

Geolocation is so 2009. Sometimes it pays to jump on board before a lot of big questions have been answered—simply because you can feel the market starting to notice it and create mindshare momentum. Undaunted, he went back to work, got some great partners on board, and kept plugging away. Ok, so we’re all doing social TV now.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I came from a board meeting to here. I was saying to this CEO at the board meeting, I said, “I don’t know, I just have this blind belief that you guys are going to create an enormous success. I want to build a great company, and I want to get you on my board for my new ridesharing service. Which is just amazing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. Elser and Scott Feldman of SGE will be joining the board.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In 2009, the Corporate Executive Board, a consultancy providing expertise to some of the world’s largest companies, studied the distinguishing characteristics of great sales people and well-run sales processes. Challengers pitch customers in five steps. They surveyed more than 6,000 sales reps across 90+ businesses.

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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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Unvalidated Learnings

MARCH 15, 2016

Launched in 2009, a couple of weeks after France’s competition commission officially liberalized international rail transport, the company slowly but surely established a unique strategic position for itself at the forefront of a powerful long-term trend. He helped the team focus their pitch on two essential areas: the product and the market.

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Unvalidated Learnings

MARCH 15, 2016

Launched in 2009, a couple of weeks after France’s competition commission officially liberalized international rail transport, the company slowly but surely established a unique strategic position for itself at the forefront of a powerful long-term trend. He helped the team focus their pitch on two essential areas: the product and the market.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

After selling Manhattan GMAT in 2009, he started Venture for America, which aimed to create 100,000 new U.S. According to The City , “In an affidavit filed with the city Campaign Finance Board, Michael Donovan acknowledged he’s discussed whom to raise money from with his son’s campaign finance director. jobs by 2025.

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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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