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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Syed Balkhi , Founder, WPBeginner Showcase Real-World Impact and Metrics When pitching to investors, especially in the early stages, it’s easy to focus solely on financials — but in today’s landscape, especially in beauty and wellness, impact is a currency of its own. If you’re pitching impact, make it real.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study

TechCrunch

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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Xayn is privacy-safe, personalized mobile web search powered by on-device AIs

TechCrunch

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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This UK startup got $9M so you’ll pay it to shrink your household bills

TechCrunch

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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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. TABS Group offers a standardized due diligence scorecard, TABSScore.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . 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. 3) Raise capital.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

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. You’re not going to wake up and write a document and say, “This is it. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this.