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. Examples Of Hockey Stick Growth.

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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. Against the advice of my law-school friends (who had seen the Social Network ), I shared the idea with anybody who would listen. The universe must have been tired of hearing my pitch. Let’s dive in. (1)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. – That’s a tough question that as of 2010 is a hard to know for certain. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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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. Wilmington Investor Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI.

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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. As Techstars’ track record fell further and further behind YC, their investor sales pitch of “buying an index of the global startup ecosystem” fell flat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

However, Cross River was not only an early recipient of fintech funding, getting $30 million back in 2016, but has been profitable since 2010. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Image Credits: Paolo Farinella / Getty Images. You can sign up here.).

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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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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

I began putting together a pitch deck and came to two important realizations. They have a single SPV with a low per unit cost and the whole thing is structured as 3-month pitch competition. The mantra for the 2010’s was that health companies needed to become tech companies before tech companies become health companies.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. We’ve been much more successful in pitching old rather than new relationships. Placement agents have to offer their investor network a range of funds to support themselves. So, it’s hard for an outsider to accurately represent the sales pitch. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Dell has been active in Israel since acquiring Exanet in 2010 , which formed the basis of an R&D operation in the country. That acquisition was for a song, relatively speaking: Exanet was bankrupt at the time and the deal was done for $12 million. From what we understand, Dell had been looking for acquisitions in this space for a while.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. We’ve been much more successful in pitching old rather than new relationships. Placement agents have to offer their investor network a range of funds to support themselves. So, it’s hard for an outsider to accurately represent the sales pitch. .

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

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. UpTo sought to become the social network that looks forward in time. While many presentations piqued my interest, Greg’s was one of the most memorable.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Increasing returns are particularly powerful when a network effect is present. According to Wikipedia , a network effect is present when “… the value of a product or service is dependent on the number of others using it.” There are three drivers of a network effect in the Uber model: Pick-up times.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The session starts with networking and pitch practice submissions and then moves onto an interview with Holt and Bennett at noon, followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 pm PT. In 2010, he sold his retail eCommerce business, Giftback. Register here for free. Supply chain. Volkswagen Group has been asked by Sen.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. Why is that? Realistic projections.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. Why is that? Realistic projections.

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