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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

This is going to be BIG.

When Ample Hills first raised $4 million in 2015, people asked if it was a seed round. Would we pitch Series A players? It's too easy to think that if you tilt the pitch just a little one way or the other, that's going to make the difference, but that's Monday morning quarterbacking. Did that seed make this round our Series A?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

TechCrunch

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market.

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. The company collaborated with NIH NIDA and uses proprietary bubbles to deliver chemotherapeutics. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day.

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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

However, like so many enterprises before it, the business faced significant challenges and in 2015, three quarters of the team was made redundant, including Amie and Mel. RageQuit eventually became part of Geo AR Games – a great example of game studio collaboration. “So So that is how we organically grew.

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Riding Boldly Into New Frontiers: How Kevin Bulger is Blending Adventure, Investment, and Impact…

Jason Malki

Whether hes planning multi-day motorcycle tours or helping others invest in Tanzania, Kevin brings a spirit of curiosity, creativity, and collaboration to everything hedoes. In 2015, a friend from college started a bespoke mens clothing company called Articles of Style that was exclusively online. Thank you so much for joiningus!

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Eva Doss, President and CEO at The Launch Place, elaborated, “We had multiple organizations in the region that were providing specific services to entrepreneurs and small businesses: business counseling, seminars, workshops, investment capital, pitch competitions, networking events, etc.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

TechCrunch

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud.

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