This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. In fact, that''s what I tend to do--at least, what I say that I do.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

“If AI-related coverage can get a new, unknown brand into its target publications today, it could help get the brand’s pitch deck in front of potential investors or partners tomorrow,” she writes in TC+. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

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.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2016

That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. I'd have to say that Datadog is probably my biggest turndown regret--because they succeeded doing exactly what they pitched, and I liked the founders from the start. Makes sense, no? Doesn't sound crazy, does it?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Top 3 DIY tactics, according to a former BBC journalist turned media relations troubleshooter Image by author I sifted at least 100,000 story pitches when I worked on the main planning desks for BBC News (radio, tv, and online) and its investigative show Panorama. They just need the right insights and tools to pitch successfully.

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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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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

First Round Capital makes 11 new investments in NYC, hires me to be here fulltime, and announces a new NYC office in Union Square. NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. I’ll be running Open Angel Forum NYC with Brian Alvey on April 8th, 2010. Yeah, I’d say problem solved, no?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

But Ojansuu says that his view was shaped by his experiences working with customers at Gapps, a Finland-based Google Workspace reseller he helped to co-found in 2010. . The year 2021 proved to be a record year for HR tech vendors, with around $14 billion invested across over 300 deals.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. He oozed a quiet confidence--like a baseball pitcher who had all his stuff working and knew exactly in his head the pitch he was going to finish you off with. If you've ever met Wiley, you know you can bank on him maxing out that additional $30 million. The answer: it wasn't.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Drugstoc was founded in 2015 by Opara and Yehia, but its history dates back to 2010 when the duo founded Integra Health, a hospital management company based on Yehia’s master’s degree project. This is in addition to plans of more investments in cold chain infrastructure to enhance the safe distribution of perishable products.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In 2010 and 2011, Févry said the dean of the University’s business school let the budding business owner cut back on his hours so he could start iTrade International, an import-export business selling earthquake detection equipment in Haiti. The time at Stonybrook was also when Févry got his first taste of entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. It’s demo day season. “Our program has been operating strongly for the last 10 plus years.

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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. Growth Inflection Point: Groupon hit the growth inflexion point in 2010 when its recorded revenue was around 313 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. Do they have authority to invest? you’ve at least gotten informed about the LA market for when you do ever want to invest? Do they have influence?

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. million to $2.1 million to $2.7

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

1) Don’t hoard your idea, share it freely The 2010 drama, the Social Network , depicted every entrepreneur’s worst fears. The universe must have been tired of hearing my pitch. PS: Rather than just telling people your idea, build a pitch deck (more on that under point 5 below). (2) I found that the opposite is true.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It is 2010. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices. They don’t have the appetite to invest more money but they want to protect all (or much of) of the investment they’ve made too date. Find out whether they plan to pass on the investment internally.

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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. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. Bottom line, Techstars needed cash.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I can't think of a single time when a white man came to pitch me and I told him his fundraising plans weren't aggressive enough. Yet, for some reason, the goals for her pitch were incremental--despite being in an extremely hot space. When Chantel asked investors for $3mm for her seed round back in 2010, people stood up and took notice.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This led Roy Rodenstein (whose company Going.com was sold to AOL ) and others to discuss , what happens when VC’s need to invest across multiple funds. Even more complicated, VCs often invest from multiple funds or sub-funds into a single deal. And VC’s don’t like to invest across multiple funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. But whatever the intent, it would be another two years before the firm eventually had the opportunity to invest in Klarna at what was almost certainly a much higher valuation.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

Jason invests in startups at the intersection of the technology, biology, and the consumerization of health. How did you break into tech investing? I began putting together a pitch deck and came to two important realizations. Realizing that investing might be the path forward, I came across the San Diego Angel Conference.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Investors, therefore, prefer the longest possible history of knowing a fund manager before they invest. Two degrees of separation. . Opaque industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

At least, that sales pitch from Hippocratic AI , which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in seed financing behind it and a valuation in the “triple digit millions.” ” Shah says that the bulk of the $50 million seed tranche will be put toward investing in talent, compute data and partnerships.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. But whatever the intent, it would be another two years before the firm eventually had the opportunity to invest in Klarna at what was almost certainly a much higher valuation.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform The Angel Capital Association, in concert with Jeffrey Lang of the Desert Angels and ACA’s proud partner Dealum , has published this informative interview on one of 2023’s most important topics in the angel investment space: angel group collaboration. So it's something I enjoy very much.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Investors, therefore, prefer the longest possible history of knowing a fund manager before they invest. Two degrees of separation. . Opaque industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

Since I first invested in his prior company back in 2011, we’ve shared meals and wine, successes and frustrations. “At I met Greg in the spring of 2011 when he approached me to invest in his new idea. From the time I started the fund in 2010 until I left at the end of 2014, we evaluated more than three thousand entrepreneurial pitches.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Above all, we only pitch people on the companies we would personally interview for.”. Put your passions first, invest in your people, create a culture that inspires innovation and never, ever stop hustling.”.

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