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Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck

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The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. According to Bennet, Nichols reached out about the opportunity on Facebook Messenger.

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That Time I Passed on Datadog Because I Didn't Understand the Market

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That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. I even punted on the fundraising by adding them to the Open Angel Forum in February, 2011, giving everyone else an opportunity to do the deal, without leading it myself. Makes sense, no?

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9am.health launches with $3.7M to tackle virtual diabetes care

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They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). 9am.health will also invest in advancing its virtual screening ability and expand the types of medication it can offer.

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Faulty Logic in the Venture Capital and Female Founder Discussion

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So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday.

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How Pilot charted a course of not raising too much money

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Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting. So here we go.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. You may enjoy looking at that last link. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding the right LPs, ocean conservation, inside Uber’s pre-seed deck

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Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant. But when Uber rolled out service in San Francisco in 2011, it really transformed the way people got around. on an H-1B, which my employer recently extended.