Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. As The Economist put it, comparing U.S. misses an opportunity. Securities Regulation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

As I listened to the pitches, I wondered if the types of startups founders decide to build at YC has changed over time and whether those trends are lagging or leading indicators of the market as a whole. At each Demo Day, the YC team provides investors a list of all the companies pitching and I’ve kept a few.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Since 2012 Vilnius’ population has been steadily growing 0.3% This brings me to another point that I would say the weakest link of the ecosystem is lack of entrepreneurial training and lack of educational initiatives inspiring youngsters (and not only) to go on to found their own companies and take risks. every year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. Pitch perfect, you might think. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Now, nearly 10 years later, Olive has raised $856.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. Pitch perfect, you might think. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. While the most visible and largest of these properties is zoned for commercial usage--it hasn't escaped anyone with a fifth grade math education that they would be much more lucrative as residential properties.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. Now I don’t get any.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

These are educated women but handicapped so no one ever gave them jobs. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.” It’s a lot about what were they doing before. There are women who are handicapped. These small shops are everywhere.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

The public markets get educated. I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges.

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