TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. Then, it’s time for the pitch deck teardown. Networking is open starting at 2:30 p.m.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. When working with early stage startups, Eric runs an exercise where he says “Give me the pitch; I am your first customer.” Leverage?—?and

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. During this event, five final teams will take the stage and pitch their ideas to an esteemed panel of judges for a chance to win cash prizes and more. months for first biopsy, 6.6 Learn more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Hell, we may even take a peek at the original pitch deck that made it all happen. That same founder/investor duo (in this case, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt and LVP’s Gaurav Gupta ) will take a look at your pitch decks and give their own feedback. (If

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. 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. So we went for it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

An alumni of both Carnegie Mellon University and Pennsylvania State University, Peduto served on Pittsburgh’s City Council for a dozen years before being elected mayor in 2014. It’s free to register and participate in networking and watch the event ( click here to register ).

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc. management.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This, explains Microsoft, has allowed video to establish itself as a new type of “document” for businesses to do things like pitch an idea, explain a process, or communicate with team members. Some of this functionality was migrated over to the new Clipchamp app, however. Image Credits: Clipchamp. operations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Hell, we may even take a peek at the original pitch deck that made it all happen. That same founder/investor duo (in this case, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt and LVP’s Gaurav Gupta ) will take a look at your pitch decks and give their own feedback. (If

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about de Raphélis Soissan, as she used to be an entrepreneur herself and I first covered her startup, Clustree, back in 2014.

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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. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. Of course he pitched me the entire ride down. Come to entrepreneur pitches.

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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. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. inside insight into VC decision-making. Mostly it’s philosophical.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Since launching in 2014, it has seemingly forged a path to realizing its vision with $140 million in funding and 25,000 teams across the globe using the platform. Mehrotra was generous enough to let us take a look through his pitch doc (not deck!) A screenshot from Coda’s pitch doc. EDT/noon PDT.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. At minimum, you need to get an introduction from a local player, or better yet, set up a local office and network there.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

In September 2014, we received a $3.6M In regard to raising money, be sure to leverage your network. Also, don’t overlook the power of angel networks. We have pitched our company so many times throughout the last 18 months and truly understand how each angel group works, their process and timing. The network is awesome.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. Through this competition, you get the chance to network with possible investors, and also win between $1000 to $50,000 in funding for their business.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Because we are limited by the access to our own network, which is our own social circle. On being deliberate in building your network to create opportunities: “Five years into BCG [Boston Consulting Group], I learned a lot about private equity investing, but I missed tech. This was 2013, 2014. Why is that?

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Of those who had a QUT supported place: Alex Ghiculescu (2014) founded Tanda, a workforce success company that continues to go from strength to strength with over 120 staff across the globe. The youngest one we sent was Mitchell Johnson, the past president of Code Network. Where are they now? We’ve definitely got some success stories.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Pearl Automation (2014-2021). Crypto angle aside, Visionrare’s pitch was interesting. Nearly a decade ago, Friendster’s Jonathan Abrams launched Nuzzel , a social news reading service that highlights headlines that are being read and shared by friends in your network. . — sima sistani (@SimaSistani) September 9, 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

As things transpired, people might prefer to network in-person versus digital breakout rooms. On top of that, Proton’s technology pitch is very much in line with the European Union’s thinking on privacy, which has been encapsulated by regulation such as GDPR. In the U.K., as part of Atlassian’s remote work policy.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. That started after Flipkart became bigger about 2014, 15, and after that, the IT’s like, hey, everyone wants to do a startup.

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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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