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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Without the right people in the right seats who live by your core values and culture, you won’t be able to deliver to your ideal client. I’ll say it again for emphasis: Ideal employees must live by the company’s core values and culture. And worse, you may only attract less-than-ideal clients. So, how do you fish for ideal employees?

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Startup Pitching 101

Paul G. Silva

Multi-person pitches add complexity that almost always leads to people going over time, stepping on each other, or confusing the audience. What are their cultural norms? Most of the time it is simply to get another, longer “date” with the people you are pitching to. One rehearsed presenter. Know your audience.

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Startup Pitching Checklist

Paul G. Silva

This is the checklist / boil down of the techniques listed in the pior 3 posts in the “Startup Pitching” series. After you complete a draft of your pitch, go over this list to make sure you’ve applied as many of the techniques as possible. View all posts in the “Startup Pitching” series.

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Accelerators And Seed Deal Flow

Haystack

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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Ready, Set, Raise, an accelerator for women built by women, announces third class

TechCrunch

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way.

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Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab hosts Global Demo Day of Disruptive Startups

American Entrepreneurship

Twenty-three members of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab cohort are pitching today to an audience of over 300 investors, potential partners, and customers. The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At