TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. VCs should never give armchair product advice nor cross the line into micromanagement. Two years and two award-winning iPhone apps later, we ultimately decided it was time to sell our technology to Snapchat.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 2, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Accelerate your journey by shamelessly asking for advice and feedback from the best and brightest.”. Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Chatterize.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

so he’ll give practical advice on how to stay alive and thrive. How to Tell Your TAM Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital) Dayna Grayson from Construct Capital has invested in a lot of different fields, including automation and manufacturing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter we’re talking about Amazon’s new bed, and bad advice from investors. Pitch decks and term sheets welcome too. No pitches, please. No thanks Some venture capital firms are doling out surprising advice these days: raise capital from our firm, but don’t pay yourself. Are we surprised?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about pitch deck teardowns and artificial intelligence. A Pitch Deck Teardown to start It never hurts to be reminded that it’s important to eat your vegetables — and that is my lazy introduction into Haje Jan Kamps ’ latest Pitch Deck Teardown on Spinach.io. Book your pass ASAP!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Investors like Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund), Quin Garcia (Autotech Ventures) and Rachel Holt (Construct Capital) — all of whom will grace our virtual stage. They’ll have plenty of insight and advice to share, including the challenges that startup founders will face as they break into the transportation arena.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

What about pitch competitions that sound like Ancient Roman death matches? They do, and I'll join these events, but when you name your pitch event after something violent, you shouldn't be surprised when you've gotten way more men to apply. How enthusiastic are women going to be to participate in shark cages and battlegrounds?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Siteline is building fintech infra for the construction market : While the consumer fintech space is chock-full of tools for what feels like any and every use case, the business world is a little bit different. Promise, a startup, aims to sit between you and the government, offering more flexible payment plans for bills. I kinda dig it.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It can be tempting to use lofty language, but we’ve found it more constructive to focus the conversation on traction. We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model. We tackled it by emphasizing a tangible prototype over traditional pitches.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

While she is opening up a $5 million allocation to accredited investors outside her network, she said from a portfolio construction standpoint: she’s not necessarily looking for “diamonds in the rough” or a specific diversity quota. “I Amazing advice for anyone who is a student or just … new. Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital raised $2.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

I’ve written more about “why now” in the context of pitching elsewhere , but it’s interesting to see that surface. There’s a stark change: Investors are spending 60% more time on the financials section of a pitch deck compared to a year ago. Decks are getting shorter; last year, the average successful deck had 19 slides.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Before Tracy Young was co-founder and CEO of TigerEye, she held the same roles at construction productivity software startup PlanGrid. Young looks back at “five key failure points” that are common potholes on every founder’s path and shares tactical advice for addressing internal conflict, losing product-market fit and other stumbles.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the startup world, when you’re pitching your idea and proposing your solution in the preliminary stage, no one wants to come across as critical or unsupportive, so people will sometimes avoid sharing negative feedback that actually could be quite valuable. But how do you do that? At the beginning, don’t think about selling.

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Gust

DECEMBER 3, 2011

And I don’t mean because they lend a credible name to an investor pitch: way too many entrepreneurs look at names on Advisory Board as just a way to expedite a raise. Proper use of Advisory Boards begins with proper construction. You want to find people who really are willing to provide a few hours a month. And, anyway, let’s face it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

As The TechCrunch team sat through hundreds of startup pitches during YC’s biannual Demo Day, the backdrop of change was certainly noted. Now, even if valuations have not come down for some YC startups, some of the aforementioned advice has been taken, specifically around the slowdown that will be felt for international companies.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. I feel like we are solidifying the foundation of the house and beginning to frame it out, but this “construction job” will have a number of phases. Advice for replication in other ecosystems. Patience is key.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I was WAY off between my book research about what the engineering & construction market would want (my first company) and what they actually wanted. And you need to watch them pitch. Tags: Startup Advice. Repeat this process 50 times and trust me you’ll see patterns. I only found out through customer meetings.

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StartupNation

JULY 1, 2021

If you take just one piece of advice from this article for your growth strategy, make sure it’s this one. This model will be your guide for developing the features that users find valuable and for constructing the marketing strategy for generating awareness, encouraging downloads and keeping users engaged month after month.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

You haven’t incorporated constructive feedback. Is your marketing pitch confusing? The Oracles is an invitation-only brain trust comprising the world’s leading entrepreneurs who share their top advice and success strategies to help others grow their business, live a better life and achieve success faster. All rights reserved.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The mission is the elevator pitch. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job. There’s a certain way to do this that is constructive and that actually adds to the process rather than causes friction and problems.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score. Establishing a computer repair business may be validated through online research of already existing businesses or by speaking with former or current owners to learn their experience and gain their advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

VC Pitches. Having been an entrepreneur for near-on a decade and having pitched in 100 VC meetings I hated getting no feedback. I try to do it constructively and with a smile on my face. I usually try my best to offer constructive views on what they might do differently. I face this issue several times a week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

” Speaking as someone who’s been on both sides of this equation, I most appreciated her advice about focusing on “simplicity and staying consistent” when it comes to messaging. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

Thankfully I could write and was taking an economics class on the advice of my father, so I was able to get a job doing PR for life sciences companies. I began putting together a pitch deck and came to two important realizations. Plus, I wasn’t very good at it. And from there it was off to the races.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2012

Are you waiting for them to pitch you? Reading their needs and responding quickly with some firsthand experience and timely, appropriate advice--that's a fulltime job. Shouldn't investors have networks of talent--since these are the same people that, theoretically, their dealflow is coming out of?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Over explanation and adjective use was probably the most common tip I received when asking for advice on how to be a better prompter. Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson and NFX’s James Currier. Ask for help. TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20. Book your pass ASAP!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. And at the 11th hour they pulled out. You manage what you measure.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

As we saw in part 1 of this EC-1 , this led him to the revelation that it’s easier to figure things out for yourself than finding advice that applies to you. Meanwhile, read on for highlights from our chat with Olson, Grooms Lee and Adler, and then stay tuned at the end for a recording of the full session, including our live pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We Even Intel halted construction of its new office building at Fifth and San Antonio St. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company. Austin got hit hard.

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