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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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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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

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

In November of 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term “ Unicorn Club ” as it relates to billion-dollar startup companies. Many entrepreneurs pitching err on the side of too much information. How will you stand out from the masses of other people pitching. Why is it ready for disruption?

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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

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

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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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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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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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 17, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) March 9, 2013. Whether she got better at pitching or the tides turned in the hardware space in general, I''m excited that some investors eventually did step up--and when they did, the seed round became oversubscribed, totalling $1.8 @danielaperdomo That is serious! million.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2013

Time to get cracking on some new initiatives in 2013. The chances of getting money from someone who is hearing about you for the first time during the pitch process is extremely low. Ok, it's still resolution time, right? and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He has raised venture capital for his startups, helped hundreds of founders craft their pitch decks and fundraising strategy, and invested as a business angel. We asked him how founders can create the perfect pitch deck for their company. Some of these pitches were very informal, sitting at the bar or walking around.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Of course he pitched me the entire ride down. Come to entrepreneur pitches. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks.

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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

Funnily enough – yesterday I had a pitch from a Brit (with a fairly “fick” accent despite his years in the States) and a Finn (where I got to test drive my all time favorite swear world – Perkele. My kids are growing up in Los Angeles in 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

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. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. We’ve all been demo-day’d to death.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. Founded in 2013 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Nubank serves more than 34 million customers, making it Latin America’s largest neobank. “I How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire.

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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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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2013, I set up shop in my garage and started experimenting with different frame materials and designs. We needed to build our set and props and ship them to California, and I had to prepare a pitch and appear before the Sharks, all in a matter of weeks. But know the difference between confidence and arrogance. It’s not.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In the first part of this EC-1, I’ll look at how Velez brought his skills and experience to bear on this market, how Nubank was founded in 2013, and how the team brought a Californian rather than Brazilian vibe to their first office on — no joke — California Street, in a neighborhood called Brooklin in the city of São Paulo.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These are some of the milestones that helped make—and almost break—Amazon along the way: Jeff had a feeling that the internet was going to be very popular, so he pitched the idea of starting an online bookstore to his boss. He bought it in 2013 for $250 million, and the company has likely generated significant revenue and profits since then.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2013, the Canadian budget airline WestJet surveyed passengers using interactive life-like screens, which depicted Santa dressed in the airline’s colours, to find out what they would like as Christmas presents.

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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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