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How to Build Online Relationships into Meaningful Networks

Both Sides of the Table

Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) January 24, 2015. It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. years before… — Shafqat Islam (@shafqatislam) January 24, 2015. Theory: it’s really that simple.

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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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Changes in the Venture Capital Funding Environment

Both Sides of the Table

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. The fact that I still see it referred to in pitch decks is farcical. In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016.

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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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6 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Successfully Pitch to Women Angel Investors

StartupNation

In 2015, the Bank of Montreal’s Wealth Institute said that “Women currently control 51 percent, or $14 trillion, of personal wealth in the U.S. Make sure you are pitching to a fund that is appropriate for where your business is right now. Do not hesitate to pitch a fund that is in a location you know nothing about.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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TechCrunch Live is going to Columbus, OH — register and apply for the pitch-off!

TechCrunch

There’s even a pitch-off, and we’re looking for Columbus-area startups to apply and pitch. Register for the virtual event here , and apply for the pitch-off here. Root Insurance, which raised over $800 million since 2015, went public in 2020. Apply for the pitch-off! Pitch Competition (4:20 pm EDT).