Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. It seems like good advice to me. Subscribe by email.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO posted on Inc.com in 2023: 1. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. And don’t miss Eden’s follow-up post for EO Blog, How to Stay Ahead of Crisis PR with ChatGPT. The post EO’s Top Engaging Posts on Inc.com for 2023 first appeared on The EO Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. .” His argument is as follows. Rob does it. On steroids.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. This week I published a first look at the stealthy business , built by Shimkus and former Udemy CEO Dennis Yang, and its recently capitalized strategy of cohort-based learning for the enterprise. Deal of the week.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder? The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Detail Orientation / Hands On – One of the easiest ways to rule out people who are pitching to me is when they don’t know the details of their business. I once had a startup team pitch me for an investment where the President of the company led the first call with me on his own. There are easy tell-tale signs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice. Apologies in advance if it sounds arrogant – just trying to impart some realistic advice. Each one has pitched me for between 30-60 minutes. Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link – Getting Access to a VC. Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Or a major shift in strategy.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea. Is there anything else you’d like to add?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. I HATE LOSING. I hate it.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

I particularly like OpenLP.com , Origins , and the Raise blog , all of which include content from multiple LPs. . Chris Douvos is almost certainly the LP who has been blogging the longest, at SuperLP.com. Sapphire Ventures’ Top 10 tips for pitching an LP . Tips to write a great venture fund pitch deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. Investing Strategy. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs. What are the most common mistakes in first pitch? How do people get access to First Round Capital?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” ” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I pitched Gus twice and he told me no both times. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. go on, click it ).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In an effort to open-source Supademo ’s own Product Hunt launch strategy, here is a clear breakdown of what we did to prepare for and execute our launch. Once you’ve reached out, pitch them on why they should support your launch! Hopefully, it’s a helpful guide to founders and operators looking to launch soon.

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StartupNation

JUNE 9, 2021

Maybe you sourced products or a manufacturer, opened a brick-and-mortar shop or successfully pitched investors on your concept. Plan to pitch relevant reporters on an ongoing and regular basis. Keep an eye on the coverage produced by reporters you plan to pitch regularly. Will you have a company blog ? But now what?

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In an blog article on Virgin.com, Branson said, “From the day I took my first steps as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt that the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better. Get their free digital strategy play book here. we can hold our head up high and make a true difference in the world. NZ Entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. Handling PR with VCs. Leave them wanting more.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

If you're hiring for marketing, it's going to be someone who will actually test all the AdWords campaigns, run the Twitter account, write the blog posts, pitch media outlets, etc. Then, match that person up with a one day or so a week senior person who gets paid mostly in equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. Mobile app? Bijan is right.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We are setting up the following process: every time a company mails us their pitch or further information, we send to a special email, e.g., inbound(@)versatilevc.com. It has every field you could think of and thoughtful workflows to help you keep on top of this, plus an integration with Sutton Place Strategies. He recommended: .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

I'm a strong believer in having a board, even at a seed stage, to report to and set strategy with. VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Seems like a good pick, except that every piece of advice given comes from their own experience--experience that is all during a a single up cycle.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. See their blog post on multiples.). Betterfront.io 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). It can be a good strategy to bring just the CEO because 1-on-1 rapport is easier to build but if you have equally strong co-founders bring them. Who should attend the meeting?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. See their blog post on multiples.). 3) Raise capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Against everyone’s advice, I decided to seek out a business partner. Moranne and I are Millennials, as are most of our staff, so social media, digital strategy and technology is integral to everything we do. Above all, we only pitch people on the companies we would personally interview for.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

The advice was one of ten bullet points in a memo meant to help companies navigate the economic downturn crushing tech. As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend or following me on Twitter or my blog. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M seed round pitch deck. Seen on TechCrunch+.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Or, you might use the newsletter content to tease a blog post outlining your company values. Statistics are easily shareable and often, your brand or business will get a link back when others use your stats in blog posts. . A guest blog post you’ve written for another company or brand. A “Dear Abby” type advice column.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

This can be done in many ways like cultivating a long term relationship with a handful of VCs or in less direct ways like brand building through social media and blogging. They typically ask for advice on the process. What challenges to the business exist that the pitch must address? This is my interpretation of their playbook.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Dharmesh: I think that was good advice. The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I published this on my own startups blog. I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. Sam: And I was like, "Well, why?".

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