Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 25, 2025

Innovation, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit took center stage at the 2025 Entrepreneurs Cup awards dinner on April 22, marking the culmination of another successful year of Oklahomas premier collegiate business plan competition. Winners were chosen for their compelling business plans, impressive pitches, and real-world potential.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? Lots of community discussions. They’ll get into whatever they can just to like find a community, find a home.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

“It was a combination of having the theoretical business knowledge – how to build a business with a framework that helped you put that into practice, which is delivering your first pitch and understanding your value proposition, understanding your customer, your market. And then, what are the government’s issues in communicating it? “We

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Jason Malki

JUNE 10, 2025

She also recently pitched her feature spec, Irish Morning , and tv pilots, Peri Does Europe and Collette’s Caleb  — both of which placed as semi-finalists in the ScreenCraft 2025 TV Pilot contest — at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, to great response, and they’re under consideration at multiple production houses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Among other topics, Lee will talk about how Guild Education met her criteria for investment before the duo offer feedback on startup pitches submitted by audience members. By 2025, Narayan says her company will have 10,000 electric school buses and plans to put the fleet into service to generate power and feed it back to the grid.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. You keep paying to reach what’s already yours.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

This inspired its founders Minette Navarrete, Dan Siazon, and Christian Besler to pitch for a pioneering evergreen fund to the Globe board, starting with $2.5M We have a dedicated team to support our portfolio companies for business development, media relations, and community engagement. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So Edda already has some competition beyond dusty-old spreadsheets, but what it’s pitching is an all-singing, all-dancing tool covering all bases. At this point, the company founders can be invited to collaborate through Edda, where they can update information themselves and communicate with all the main stakeholders.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What will unionization rates in private workforce be in 2025? So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). It is a certainty that things are and will change… How fast? I don’t know.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed. Social+ products are seeing mass adoption because they marry community with functionality.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Meanwhile, read on for highlights from our chat with Olson, Grooms Lee and Adler, and then stay tuned at the end for a recording of the full session, including our live pitch-off. In the VC community, investors look for lessons from disruptive startups they can use to identify other potential winners. Launching a rolling fund.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Communication pros chatbot template Try the template Built by Carly Moulton, Zapier's Head of Community Marketing, this template includes five AI-powered chatbots designed to support public relations and communications work. The most recent update was in July 2025.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Next year we’re probably going to see, from multiple players, models on the order of $1B , and in 2025, we’re going to see models on the order of several billion, perhaps even $10B. I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to invest.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

I trust her to hear out the community, gather all the data, and, unlike our current Towering Ineptitude, actually make a decision—one that she believes is right for New York, not just politically popular. jobs by 2025. They got the union to agree to it by splitting the savings between the city and the other two workers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We do this through a fun social community app including competitions, challenges and games. (The ‘Cambrian explosion’ of dating apps, over the past decade, also suggests that hope for meaningful human connection at the convenient tap of an app springs eternal.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

This solves the issue of access as there are thousands of agents in these cash-dependent communities. When the information of this new set of customers is collected and saved on its platform, Bankly starts to build engaging communities where these people can collectively save their income with the agents. It was there Bankly started.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. Interest in the space seems to be growing rapidly in the VC community, so I spoke with five investors to get a better idea of where longevity tech is headed and just how big the market stands to become. It will be that fast.”

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Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2025

Aligned with direct services to entrepreneurs, the E3 Alliance—a dynamic advisory council of local entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) and community partners—serves as a collaborative engine for aligned priorities and action. Responsibilities include venue and speaker scheduling, participant communication, and event day logistics.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Let’s take a look at the different ways you can work with the investment community. Hormonal health sits at the center of conversations around personalized medicine and women’s health: By 2025, women’s health could be a $50 billion industry, and by 2026, digital health more broadly is estimated to hit $221 billion.

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Revolution

APRIL 9, 2025

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought sunsets, snow, and spirited conversations. Between panels, pitches, and catching up with co-investors, the event showcased a new generation of founders and funders building in theMidwest. From college towns to cliff-lined coasts, heres where we went and what we learned along the way.

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