Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. I have even had to get physical security advice from some of the crazy. It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. No, it’s not fun.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

After giving a presentation he’d previously shared at Harvard Business School, Stanford and MIT, Currier outlined the mental models unicorn founders adopt and offered candid advice for early-stage entrepreneurs, including his thoughts on building a founding team: “You have to figure out what you and your team are capable of doing.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. Granted if you are developing a new cancer treatment then you will likely need to be quite technical with biology!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Similarly, “everyone needs 18-24 months of runway” is a nice motto, but when it takes three times longer to raise a round than it used to, it may no longer be useful advice. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Mission slide. Team slide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Each week, TechCrunch editors host a show featuring entrepreneurs, developers and venture capitalists. It’s a great time, and we hope you can join us to present your startup in the pitch feedback session at the end of the show. We want to know what advice they have for those in similar situations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So Edda already has some competition beyond dusty-old spreadsheets, but what it’s pitching is an all-singing, all-dancing tool covering all bases. And on top of that, Edda has also developed an API that tracks news relating to companies, funds, and everything related to the deal-making process.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Most investors won’t sign a non-disclosure agreement before reviewing your pitch because your idea is probably not worth stealing. “Not all concepts developed by startups are legally protectable,” writes Alison Miller, trial lawyer at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To add more pressure, every conversation you have is a potential sales pitch, making it difficult to have honest, relaxed conversations with anyone who could be a potential client or stakeholder. but that won’t stop the almost daily influx of unsolicited advice and second-guessing you’ll receive. Are you an expert in your field?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? The information provided in “Dear Sophie” is general information and not legal advice. Ask it here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

He also includes a tactical framework for developing freemium products that includes use cases for limited and unlimited usage. When to build a freemium plan and how to get it right Three more from the TC+ team: Teaming with good advice : Haje goes deep on the team slide, and why it is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. I wasn’t feeling it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

I haven’t launched a successful startup, but I have helped write several pitch decks. This article also covers how to hire and pay for custom market research, the best people to ask for advice, and the importance of only using credible sources. 6 technologists explain how no-code tools are changing software development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. This has meant smaller exits, and thus less development for the ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC“ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog [.].

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

CubeWorks’ CubiSens technology was developed on the Ann Arbor North Campus research block that is home to many innovative robotics and autonomous research facilities. FreightRoll claims that its app-based, paperless trade documents can save shipping companies up to 30% of freight overhead costs. RightBrain Networks. PassiveBolt.

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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. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. This is part of a series on fund-raising advice for entrepreneurs and VCs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The poorest households describe a stark choice — between ‘heating or eating’ Into this grim maelstrom a new London-based startup, called Nous , is hoping to throw households a life-raft by offering a free personalized report that explains how price rises will affect their costs and gives advice on how to adapt to inflation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? They’ll invite you out to events in which you’ll meet their other clients, you can get to know them socially and hopefully develop a real mentorship relationship where every conversation is not on the clock.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 23, 2015

They, too, must prototype, position, pitch, bootstrap, recruit, fund, partner, sell, and support. Internal entrepreneurs should find a godfather to support their projects by providing advice, technical and marketing insights, and, if it comes to the point where you need it, protection. Get a separate building. Build on what exists.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. 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. Key takeaways Write a MOC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. “Here’s how you upload a document. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch. Beautifully written.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? My best piece of advice for founders is to keep in mind that they can’t do it alone. So give your pitch deck a break and lend an ear!”. One piece of advice I would give to first time startup founders is to trust your instincts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The pitch to business/public sector customers is speedier corporate/internal search without compromising commercial data privacy. He also cites a study by one city authority that found staff spent 37% of their time at work searching for documents or other digital content. That’s right; you get zero ads in search results.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. 3) Raise capital.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . 3) Raise capital.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. So I’m trying to reconcile it all in my head. If you feel differently, please weigh in with comments.

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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. Brian Halligan [08:26] – that didn’t have a bunch of developers running around.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] Here it says different ways we could implement AI features in the Figma roadmap.The first one is to develop an AI-power design assistant. Will AI take all the design jobs?

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see I am a member of this group, and I have developed these perspectives over many years of watching from the inside and being equally gullible. “ If you were selling a company to Google, would you trust Google’s banker to give you advice at the same time?

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