This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

For me, I have at least two years of active board and observer commitments to roll off of and far more time before all the founders I’ve backed hit (or miss, I suppose) their ultimate goal of returning lots of money to their investors. No more founder pitch meetings. It has been a career that fits my personality well.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., My consulting firm has used them with over 100 companies. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

“If AI-related coverage can get a new, unknown brand into its target publications today, it could help get the brand’s pitch deck in front of potential investors or partners tomorrow,” she writes in TC+. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Register When starting a company, founders often underestimate the amount of time and energy required to fundraise. In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Koh emphasises the importance of founders taking an active role in the fundraising process. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ai-Ling Wong—founder at The Decorateur. Alex Louey—founder and managing director at Appscore . 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. Andrea Grisdale—founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

My husband and I are also pitching a second Weird Homes Tour book with all of the cities in it. Chelle Neff, founder of Urban Betty, shares a tour of one of her salon locations in Austin, Texas. Pinterest has forever changed our consultation game. I hired a consulting group called Summit that changed my life.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

A lot of my work as a consultant involves helping founders come up with a good fundraising story, but a surprising number of founders seem to get stuck on the next step: Finding the right investors and landing a meeting to pitch their companies. That’s a problem. What’s your business model?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Its team comprises of former VCs, program directors, consultants, and startup CXOs. Winning many pitch competitions and hackathons does not automatically mean that a startup is good.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. “Financial discipline is key here,” said Capchase CEO and co-founder Miguel Fernández. My best advice: Strengthen your network. One to watch: Debut Capital’s Pilar Johnson works to augment funding for overlooked founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Aside from market forecast, Low also tells AsiaTechDesk about The Hive Southeast Asia, the mistakes founders make when raising money, and the other sectors that will see increased interest. It provides a venture studio that works actively with founders in the early stages to help them create and launch startups.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups. If you could offer advice to an aspiring startup founder, what would it be? How can our readers stay updated about your journey?

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We’ve gathered insights from Co-Founders and CEOs who have faced these hurdles head-on, sharing their experiences and strategies. Tobias Liebsch , Co-Founder, Fintalent.io We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The focus, as tends to be the case for all these customer service conversational AI plays, is freeing (human) support agents from dealing with dull, repetitive stuff — so they can apply their (less limited) skills to more complex, consultative or emotionally demanding customer queries. will do the same for customer service.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

By Miranda Naiman, accidental entrepreneur, motivational speaker, organizational development practitioner, writer, and founder of Empower Limited , a Tanzanian human capital consultancy firm. If I could fly back in time to Empower’s start-up phase and give my younger self advice, I would offer these six thoughts.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I see way too many startup founders who don’t have experience in selling and probably don’t feel that comfortable going to customers and asking for orders. This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. It is a consultative sale. And you need to watch them pitch.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 13, 2023

14 Ways to Avoid Startup Marketing Mistakes To help startups avoid common marketing mistakes, we asked fourteen industry leaders and founders to share their insights. This plan guides their content marketing which drives their website, sales aids, social media, and sales pitch. Aycen Zambuto , Founder, Vitality Media Co.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos CEO and co-founder Nicolas Rabault says that as a former embedded hardware engineer, he wanted to build a solution that would simplify the way these engineers have historically worked. Rabault and his co-founders launched the startup in 2018, but the roots of the idea go back 14 years when Rabault was still a student.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Anyway, I spent the first part of my career consulting for large companies. Accenture always had a chip on it’s shoulder in strategy consulting – especially compared with McKinsey, BCG and Bain. We were Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) and our core skills were in building large-scale IT systems.

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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. . So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. Were their consultants? As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. Shubham Goel, co-founder, Affinity, said, “From what we see at Affinity, this is usually the #1 question new managers are asking — how do I get everything in one place with as little admin work as possible? RRM=Draft a response for me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. When should I hire a sales team?

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Onevest

MAY 12, 2015

Think attending a live panel, industry tradeshow, or consulting with a veteran mentor. These principles of trust and context are seconded by the Knight Foundation in its advice for entrepreneurs. Edward’s University highlights the need to contextualize, edit, and host the ‘conversation’.

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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. . So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. Were their consultants? As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. And they were all run by talented people we respected.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Investors are human, after all Come up with a valid reason because they know in communicating with founders if there’s no reason to say “no” you can generate bad will Risk missing out on an inflection point: Investors of course are also concerned about saying “no” too early in the process when they can “hang around the rim” and see what happens?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

In the afternoon, college students and faculty advisors attend the WWTB session where they delve into details of developing a business plan, figuring out financials, and mastering a pitch — all delivered with advice that you won’t hear on Shark Tank. Spirit and heart is what the Summit and WWTB are all about.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. Were their consultants? Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Low numbers are sexy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Fuelfinance Their pitch: “We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Great day at @TechCrunch Early Stage talking with @YourProtagonist about how founders can find product-market fit! Dame shared one piece of advice that I’d never heard from an investor: more founders should learn to make themselves vulnerable. Pitch deck teardown: Minut. pic.twitter.com/ybbqwGX6Hm.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 7, 2021

Namely, guest lecturing at schools, giving lectures and speeches, and consulting for institutes and companies to help solve their most intractable problems. And in the process of meeting these people, I’m constantly hearing pitches, proposals, business plans, and product ideas. My advice; avoid this temptation. Aim for that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. And finally a reminder: Selling is about listening & reacting and not “pitching.” ” I encapsulate that in an analogy I heard years ago.

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