Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the decision has been made to go forward, there are very basic steps to setting up a business that formalizes the creation of the business and makes it operational which is addressed in a related article. Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

From coffee chats to job pitches to meeting action items, productivity expert Jocelyn K. I'm putting together a new article series that targets ambitious young creatives, and I wanted to see if you might be interested in sponsoring it? Let's say you're reaching out to a film director you admire for advice.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series , and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequently is that it’s easy to be a critic: What would we have done? So for this week’s pitch deck teardown, we’re going to try something different. At its heart, though, the deck was good.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kyle Windham , Digital Marketing Manager, Redhype Creative Marketing Agency Blogging for SEO and Authority As a small marketing agency, we have invested time and resources into building out a blog, which gets updated monthly, focusing on current marketing trends and topics. We pitched a broad theme and partnered with industry experts.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Instead, the company can pitch itself based on a credible financial projection. I contributed this as a guest article on Techcrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. It could take a little bit longer than that, but not that much.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tapping into someone else’s experience is a tried-and-true method, which is why two-time Y Combinator participant Chris Morton wrote a guest post for Extra Crunch with advice for founders hoping to be accepted by the famed accelerator. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. Some examples of VCs originating in creative ways: Pioneer runs an extremely open contest focused on lowering the bar to raising capital for “scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and civic activists.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

As I’ve said previously, if your name doesn’t appear on the team slide of your company’s pitch deck, this is a time to be cautious: Update your resume, dial back your summer vacation plans and start adding more to your rainy day fund. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. This might take a little time.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

I want your pitch to be the one I say yes to--and I want you to solve the inherent problems in your business model. Take pitches? True creativity comes from dissent and a diverse set of opinions. True creativity comes from dissent and a diverse set of opinions. This article on Groupthink reasons that: ".dissent

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Generating content for newsletters month after month can prove challenging for even the most seasoned (and creative) marketer. . Favorable articles about your company. A “Dear Abby” type advice column. But, we’ve got your back. Here are 50 must-have ideas to spark your next email newsletter. Photos your customers have shared.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But all this isn’t why you started reading this article, is it? An article on the failure of The Wing analyzed through the lens of changes in the commercial real estate market brought on by a global pandemic isn’t why you came. It doesn’t drive the clicks. And no, chatting about the price of your NFT doesn’t make you a community.

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