Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. Startups Are for Doers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm. I think it’s great for some people because it really does give you some solid benefits: board exposure / experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

— Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. Dennis and Naveen had pitched just about every investor you could think of and came up with a whopping zero term sheets. "The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. Not hot at all.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. With all that in mind, we’re introducing a special summer edition of Extra Crunch Live that’s all pitch-off, all the time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. With all that in mind, we’re introducing a special summer edition of Extra Crunch Live that’s all pitch-off, all the time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Start here.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” You know it was a good application video when the same pitch can be reused in the S-1. I first met and interviewed the DoorDash founders on Friday, April 26, 2013. Here’s one of my notes from June 24, 2013: “So far, nothing is working that well. Months later, my skepticism remained. Just started expanding to MV.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

That’s why one of the best options for you today is to join a local angel investor group, where you will work collegially with 25-250 other investors to hear pitches from companies, do your due diligence homework, and then—if you are interested—pool your money with the others to make meaningful investments.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The firm has made 221 investments since 2013.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013. Analyzing Voice as a Way to Diagnose and Track Disease Progression A growing body of evidence suggests that different aspects of voice like speech rate, pitch, and word repetition can serve as biomarkers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

He even ran the idea for the company by Houston prior to launching in 2013, who gave it his seal of approval, and the two companies have been partners for some time. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Anyone who can confidently answer the 20 questions in this post is ready to pitch an investor, IMO. Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker. Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

In a report on startup investing and “How the Rich Invest” Forbes notes that the Angel Capital Association counted more than 330 active angel groups in North America as of 2013. There were over 200 as of 2006.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. Share on Twitter. As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom. We’re amped to discuss which opportunities are exciting them these days, how tech, innovation and venture has changed amid the pandemic, what they look for in a pitch, and much, much more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

406 Ventures since 2007 and investing as a partner since 2013. Lastly, the event concludes with a pitch-off with three Boston-area startups. It’s a critical topic: Startups are not made in a vacuum and often benefit from a frothy local community of like-minded companies and entrepreneurs. Greg Dracon has been with Boston’s.406

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

When Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” in 2013, startups valued at $1 billion were rare creatures: there were just 39 of them at the time. “As a former venture capitalist, I always tell founders that the most powerful tool they can employ while fundraising is a data-driven pitch.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

” By 2013, Mel’s idea was further inspired while working at a startup called Augview that was using geospatial augmented reality for city infrastructure – nothing to do with games whatsoever – and she met the person who would become the co-founder of her studio. “It

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Starting with the first point, in general, IP assets of demonstrable value that are relevant to the startup’s business can only help when pitching investors. By 2013, the U.S. In practice, this leads many U.S. will transition to a similar system as a result of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After leaving Apple in 2013, she spent a year as an engineering program manager at Square before joining up with Pearl Automation, where she was a founding team member at the ambitious startup. If you register, you can register for Pitch Practice and ask Gurjeet and Chrissy questions. Chrissy Meyer knows hardware.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “ demo bottleneck ” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. Prospects pick what they want to learn about and get a personalized demo, which they can share with their wider teams and organization.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

The company’s pitch? By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. In 2013, there were 220,000 electric vehicles on roads, according to data from Statista , a number which had grown to 4.8 million by 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The idea for the app first came up in 2013, Miller said, when he and Gibson were students at Ohio University in Columbus. So we pitched the idea during a Startup Weekend competition: snapping like Snapchat but for rap. “We were coming of age when everyone in college was using apps like Snapchat and Instagram,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2023

After leaving Apple in 2013, she spent a year as an engineering program manager at Square before joining up with Pearl Automation, where she was a founding team member at the ambitious startup. If you register, you can register for Pitch Practice and ask Gurjeet and Chrissy questions. Chrissy Meyer knows hardware.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” A lot of new things.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Upadhyay pitches the algorithm as a time saver, but it should be noted that these sorts of models have the potential to amplify bias in the hiring process. Upadhyay previously cofounded Hoot.me, an app designed to let college students to add classes and collaborate with teachers and classmates on Facebook. Civitas Learning acquired Hoot.me

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

as and Marcin Wiktor, who co-founded the company in 2013. But the startup’s sales pitch seemingly won over the more than 23,000 businesses that currently pay for Tidio, which used the platform to automate over 86,000 conversations in the last month alone. ” Tidio is the brainchild of Go?as

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Eventually, her persistence paid off when she secured a meeting with a Neiman Marcus buyer, and after a memorable pitch in which she personally demonstrated Spanx’s slimming effect in the dressing room, she landed her first major retail order.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Takeshi “TK” Mori and Clancey Stahr met in 2013 at a cafe on Stanford’s campus and worked together on various investment projects before deciding to launch GoAhead Ventures I in Q4 2014. So, we encourage any founder readers to check out our rapid pitch process on our website and ‘go ahead’ to submit a pitch if the time is right!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Instead of throwing spears, you’re the one holding the shield.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

Tony, Henrik, and Ioannis met in college in 2013 while studying for a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Startup reviews are custom written posts by our experienced team, who’ll work closely with your team to create the best pitch possible. Explain your offering to over thousands of potential investors, customers, and top blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. That is what we set out to solve at MyTime.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. Image Credits: jhorrocks / Getty Images. households.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Prakash previously founded social media search platform Topsy, which was acquired in 2013 by Apple, where he later became a senior director. .” Together, launched in June 2022, is the brainchild of Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang. So what does Together bring to the table?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

He said he’d just come from a business pitch with the airline in question.). You might recall that the company first came out of stealth back in 2013 , with former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld one of the co-founders. Hopin raises $125M for its online events platform on the back of surging growth.

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