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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten VC

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Experts can turn into consultants, board members, interim execs, etc., Fundraising. Recruiting. Minimal cost. . Extends network dramatically.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. What is a founder to do?

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten VC

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Experts can turn into consultants, board members, interim execs, etc., Fundraising. Recruiting. Minimal cost. . Extends network dramatically.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? key in vivo data results). Make it easy on them and provide it here.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. 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.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Corp dev handbook, Chicago startups, Brazil’s e-commerce landscape

TechCrunch

A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange.

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