Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

In a nascent field like entrepreneurial ecosystem building, practitioner examples are rare and we were not going to pass up the opportunity to speak to four representatives of this pilot project to learn more about: What gave rise to the need of hiring an ecosystem builder. River and bridges in Danville.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

For investors, capital raises provide an opportunity to invest in a company’s ambitions. That’s why it’s important for founders to understand that the clearer you can articulate the opportunity and its potential risks – and proposed mitigations – the better equipped investors will be to assess your business as a viable investment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This may include Airtable or Salesforce for workflow management, or Affinity , Zaplow , and Sevanta for dealflow (the number of potential investment opportunities). 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. Market opportunity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. 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? Savvy Startup Founder.

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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

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. Opportunity slide. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

FreightRoll claims that its app-based, paperless trade documents can save shipping companies up to 30% of freight overhead costs. LoanSense helps you find a repayment plan for your student loans so you don’t miss out on opportunities for forgiveness, consolidation and repayment. FreightRoll. Mid-sized top startups in Ann Arbor.

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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. . 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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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. For our latest Extra Crunch market map, we sized up the general market opportunity before creating a roster of major players and reaching out to investors to see where they’re placing bets. Launching a rolling fund.

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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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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. . Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. Pollen VC offers a LTV calculator. 8) Monitor .

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. With AI, you massively open up the opportunity for creation. Dylan: On a technical level, if you look at the actual internal structure of a Figma document, it’s much more similar to an abstract syntax tree and less similar to some image.

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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. An opportunity for competition?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform. I think there’s a market opportunity for a talent agent for microinfluencers, who would help me better leverage my audience. 3) Documenting best practices. Score the opportunities based on the combination of social reach with readership.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel was created when its co-founders, just out of college, experienced how heavily where you live impacts the opportunities you get. Enabling this talent and empowering this talent to get the best opportunities is really what Deel is all about. Any advice for founders just getting started? Deel co-founder] Shuo is from China.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” It doesn’t.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

No matter how much you re-work your pitch document, website or marketing, your idea simply isn’t catching their interest. You’ll want things to be true that may not be, and equally you may underestimate or overlook opportunities. It can be one of the biggest frustrations for startups. You can’t figure out why. Where’s the gap?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Having been on both sides of this sensitive topic, the following is my personal advice. The best advice I could give you for first meetings is that you should have a limited number of discussions until you’re pretty sure that you’re likely to have positive results in fund raising and you should be open in the meetings that you do have.

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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. “Here’s how you upload a document. Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch. DO NOT make it a features & functions presentation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Giving the same pitch, sending the same email, and answering the same questions over and over again. A great way to get connected with potential investors is by participating in pitch competitions. I couldn’t pitch the idea clearly, which meant that even I didn’t understand my solution, so why should others? Refresh again.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” NPS would soar. see below).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us. ” Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M It’s imperative to slice users into their respective buckets, because it opens the opportunity for unique targeting and messaging.”. Walter Thompson.

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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. We do back channels.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Generally, your startup and your H-1B candidate should start assembling documents you will need to submit.

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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. What was your pitch even like? 10:00 – HubSpot’s first customer. 16:00 – SEO is underrated.

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