TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. Better Tomorrow Ventures tells TechCrunch that it is launching a fintech accelerator, this time under its own roof, called The Mint. The advice is a lot like one size fits all,” Mohnot said. “We

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Dream It

AUGUST 10, 2020

Luckily, he’s a pro when it comes to pitching investors and distills the advice so it’s easy to avoid. Instead of using superlatives, a strong competitor slide or use case demo is much more effective. Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, sees founders make the same common pitch mistakes over and over.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Preqin (free demo). Private Equity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Generative AI startup founders within the cohort can expect to have access to AI models and tools as well as machine learning stack optimization and custom go-to-market advice. There’s also a Demo Day in San Francisco at the end of the program. AWS will not invest in startups and does not yet have an AI/ML investment arm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Even to outsiders, the inner workings of startup accelerators has become familiar: pumped up on camaraderie and energy drinks, scrappy founders do product demos onstage before a room full of buzzy journalists and investors. In this instance, we failed to follow our own advice.”. Let’s start with a juicy topic: pro rata.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. 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.

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Venture Hacks

APRIL 17, 2019

Incentives make for bad investing advice. You can’t build a portfolio of pre-traction companies at $8-10M pre-money and expect to make a venture return. These valuations moved to $4-6M pre-money after 2010, with some demo days in the $8-10M range. Without these large exits, your portfolio will not achieve a venture return.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Amos said that the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment caused YC to reduce the number of companies funded between W22 and S22. The advice was one of 10 bullet points in a memo meant to help companies navigate the economic downturn crushing tech. This was intentional,” the statement reads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. My general advice is to do less. For investors life is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s a Demo Day thing. What stage? What price?

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Ideal company exit, which helped me determine who actually wants to build a venture-backed business. It is really good advice to do this ahead of time. Really, ALL the advice is right there in front of you in Startup School. We’ve just tried to follow all of YC’s advice perfectly. Matthew: Equity split.

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Dream It

JUNE 2, 2022

Our advice on cyber sales and crafting CISO security sales pitches will help improve your close rates and enterprise sales outcomes. How to Crush Your Demo When Pitching Customers & Investors Demos are critical to a security startup's success. Get expert advice on key issues to avoid.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. ” The other Paul Graham quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s a Demo Day thing. What stage?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

million at a $12 million valuation by investors including Litani Ventures, Gaingels, Amino Capital, Morning Brew’s Alex Lieberman, Republic Venture partner Namrata Banerjee and others. The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

In light of recent successes by firms like Supply Change Capital, Cake Ventures and Adverb Ventures, Rebecca Szkutak looked into whether these wins have kicked off a sustainable trend in venture fundraising. Unless, of course, someone can explain exactly how to do it.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

Brian Laung Aoaeh, Founder & Managing General Partner, REFASHIOND Ventures, said, “We chose not to do general solicitation for our institutional fund after doing a 506(c) rolling fund because we got the sense that most institutional LPs are not yet very comfortable with the rules. General solicitation damages that perception.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country also organizes the biggest startup festival, COMEUP, a 3-day extravaganza with lectures, panel talks, mini-events, and relevant topics for startups, attended by global and domestic startups, experts, mentors, innovators, media, venture capitalists, etc. were chosen from the pool of applications. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

According to Anastasiia Kuzmenko, head of talent acquisition at Flyer One Ventures, “the biggest difference between hiring in a healthy economy and hiring now is that there’s no room for mistakes.” “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself. .”

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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. It’s a conversation that bubbles up around Demo Day time and time again, but given the downturn, some expected to see valuations that they think are more realistic for businesses only a few months old.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Some readers have commented that in today’s world you shouldn’t even need a PowerPoint presentation – in this era you should always just demo your product. I also recently wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Act III – The Demo.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Our advice on cyber sales and crafting CISO security sales pitches will help improve your close rates and enterprise sales outcomes. How to Crush Your Demo When Pitching Customers & Investors Demos are critical to a security startup's success.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about a fresh new venture fund that isn’t afraid to talk about privilege or honesty, G on G I spoke to Sophia Amoruso, the founder of Nasty Gal and Girlboss, about her new venture fund for founders, Trust Fund. Amazing advice for anyone who is a student or just … new.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. Mobile app?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Upfront Ventures' ” Hours and hours if you’re engaged. The non-conformist oath.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“It’s so easy to throw together a vertical AI demo,” Winfield told TechCrunch. If they can baseline their advice and real technical guidance, that’s where it starts getting really interesting and [Winfield] has a big opportunity.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Startup Advice'

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Thus is venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

If you don’t know venture economics – there is an overview here.). Get yourself in a big demo day competition. Acquihires and Venture Capital. But that’s not how you make money in the venture capital business. Startup Advice' I’ll tell you what is says. Go do a startup. Woo the press.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week! Here’s his advice so you can do the same: Don’t rush as it’s a waste of time to generate buzz if your landing page isn’t perfectly optimized. He shared his advice for entrepreneurs who never want to stop learning. Here’s a sneak peek ??.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

For a solid six or seven minutes, I was pretty pissed at Fred Wilson for his last post on the age of venture capitalists. meet with tons of companies every week, work hard for their portfolio companies, and are on planes flying around to the important confereneces and demo days". that's not what he wrote at all.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. 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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 1. Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! Seems an obvious fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. these are simply guidelines.

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