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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

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. Most founders that get funded know their backers or have close connections to them well before they officially "pitch.". There is no fork.

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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch. In August 2010, after Thiel’s annual Singularity Summit event, Hassabis lined up along with scores of other hopefuls given literally one minute to pitch their ideas to Thiel.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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Thinking About Berlin: Unleashing a Creative Opportunity

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If they are out there, others need to hear about them more--not in a pitch but in a better way to share cutting edge ideas. I don't think the Valley really took New York seriously until Foursquare rose up in 2009. There are clones of Fab, Birchbox, Pinterest, etc., The fear is that its getting easier and faster to go global.

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Here Are the Details About Upfront Ventures’ Newest EIR – @Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. When you see pitch after pitch – what works and what doesn’t – you start to get a sense of patterns of business model approaches, go-to-market strategies and the like.

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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

TechCrunch

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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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.