TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. Make serious headway with accelerators. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface. Think of the worst-case scenario.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Accelerators. Startup competitions.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 3, 2021

15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. The BMC was a quantum leap forward. No map required.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 The cash will be used to build out the platform designed to give startups access to more than 500 VCs, accelerators and angel networks. and multiple family offices.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One can easily turn a KISS Canvas into a pitch deck for investors by simply creating slides that mirror the content in each row. 15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager to help quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind our business models. The BMC was a quantum leap forward.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. While you have undoubtedly already shared these responses by email or live discussion, it’s helpful to see all the correspondence documents in one place.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 24, 2020

15 years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. The BMC was a quantum leap forward.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. Etc: Without desks and a demo day, are accelerators worth it?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

A quick glance into founder dating sites or startup accelerator applicant pools you will see that in most cases the tech founders are outweighed by at least 10 to 1. Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. Get the pitch right Tell a great story Startups that tell a great story get funding.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But fret not, we’ve listed down the eight biggest fundraising mistakes that you need to be wary of while approaching the investors, pitching to them, and signing contracts. Substandard Pitch Decks. A prominent mistake entrepreneurs make is by not focusing much on the pitch deck. Assuming Valuations And Demands.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The statement of work converts the company’s phone or in-person sales pitch into an asset for the internal champion. For this reason, SOWs can be a vital document in the handoff between sales and customer success and can also form the basis for better collaboration between the two teams.In So, statements or can align three teams.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In his spare time, he pitched competitions and accelerators. ” Soffio said the company plans to use the money to help expand the team and accelerate its growth. He described his neighborhood as primarily immigrant and said there was always an underlying fear and anxiousness about having proper documentation. “I

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Apply to accelerators. Accelerators are highly competitive programs designed to help entrepreneurs succeed. An accelerator generally provides your company with funding (typically between $20K and $100k), guidance and connections. Be aware that accelerators are competitive, so carefully prepare a strong application.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Next, a few favorite excerpts from the chat, starting with Kunst’s notes on how to make a killer pitch deck. We’ll also explore advice regarding incorporation, how to find a co-founder and when startups are too large to join an accelerator. Where to pitch Cleo Capital. Y Combinator’s documents hub.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. Goswami pitches it as a compliance solution as well as a means to manage costs. As Komprise helps customers with both of these initiatives, our growth has accelerated during this time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. As an enterprise-focused accelerator, Alchemist primarily works with companies that in turn work with other companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Violet Labs just closed a $4 million seed round to accelerate product development as Hoag and Caitlin race to market later this year. Their pitch obviously resonated. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate product development and hire more full-stack software developers. VC and technologists.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How do you assess and find what resources are available, then organize it all, document it, and publish it to make it available? Just because you accelerate businesses, that doesn’t make you an accelerator in our definition,” said Weissmann. “In But many don’t know how to get started. Planning for the Project.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

He’s the CEO of Humaans , an HR tech startup that lets organizations build a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts and other components of “people ops.” ” Luperti has a product to pitch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can be a person (advisor) or an organization, for example, an accelerator. ?? Go deeper into these lessons and more: Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It Don’t hide in shame from your startup failure “When I stepped on stage at Demo Day to pitch our company to hundreds of investors, I had never felt so confident.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. It shows you who has updated the task, and you can include documents, images, and other attachments in the task.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 The top 60 teams selected for the acceleration program will receive US$11,136 per team to cover the living expenses over 3.5

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. Genomenon , a genomics health IT company cofounded by serial Ann Arbor software entrepreneur Steve Schwartz, helps pharma and clinical diagnostics labs accelerate research and work for solutions for patients with rare genetic diseases and cancer. FreightRoll.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It will likely take years, or even decades, before we have a full tech stack for generative AI and LLMs and a host of transformative applications—though we have reason to believe the impact is accelerated this time around. I actually think we’re going to see an acceleration of creation. I’ve got to go consult documentation.

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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. How VC and private equity funds can launch portfolio-acceleration platforms. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. The pandemic has also accelerated digital transformation, and deal-makers have embraced digital tools to help them execute effectively. As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. Soliciting under the 506(c) designation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 20, 2021

To deal with this, I document to make the next time easier. This was less harmful when I worked on a team with many hands to pitch in, but now it can distract me from what’s most important. No job can prepare you for little fires that threaten to burn down the whole house. Necessity is the mother of all inventions, right?

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

We’re also doing a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. Hello, world (it says Hello World) : I’m pretty intrigued by the startup Kyle covered this morning; Mintlify uses AI to auto-generate documentation based on source code , raising $2.8 PDT, subscribe here. Oh hey and happy Tuesday, the very last day of May 2022!

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. Dylan: On a technical level, if you look at the actual internal structure of a Figma document, it’s much more similar to an abstract syntax tree and less similar to some image. It’s hard to actually make good things. David: Then what would you build?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Step-by-Step Product Market Fit Process Raumpioniere , a Swiss startup in prop tech has decided to participate in our program that I initially launched with the accelerator RealGrowthHacking. So they are living documents that you should initially review after each interview and adjust as needed, and at a later time for strategic realignments.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. While many organized interests contributed to this change in policy, in the book, Nicholas documents the venture capital industry’s central role among them.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

It was good to get a little bit of an accelerant to knowing each other because everything was happening so quickly. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. You’re not going to wake up and write a document and say, “This is it.

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