Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Exit strategy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. Having a clear strategy in place helps to say NO by agreeing and focusing on goals and priorities. Twitter" Elon Musk arrived at Twitter carrying a sink and documenting it on Twitter, saying: "Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!

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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. Diversify your ad strategy, test different ideas and don’t give up if your ad doesn’t show results right away.”. to 17 cents. Mission slide.

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Challenges.

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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. They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. You have an “hour” to pitch in your first meeting. Prepare to give your pitch in 30 including Q&A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc. Board Meetings. Conferences.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Additionally, we standardized the “allowance rates&# for services such as document storage, maximum numbers of users and we created more standardized packages of features that constituted an “up-sell&# to a our premium offerings. Tags: Startup Advice. A good demo tells a story.

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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. It seems like good advice to me. Power Pitches. Bonus point) Don’t let the document get in the way. June 17th, 2012. I like that.

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Y Combinator

JULY 7, 2022

Wade talks about finding product-market fit, their repeatable go-to market strategy to grow their base without a ton of capital, and their philosophy around hiring and building a remote company. Christina shares insight into her first customers and advice on testing the value proposition with early users.

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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

JULY 19, 2011

You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents. But they play a multi company, multi-year strategy. But when it comes time for my story, I want to pitch it.

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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

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 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. “Here’s how you upload a document. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch.

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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform. 3) Documenting best practices. I agree with Fred Wilson on the value of owning your own platform.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey.

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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. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Datasite acquired Brochure to help centralize all the document tracking involved in diligence. Betterfront.io

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

I do think people overthink a lot of their strategy in general, and their execution in general… which means that someone else is running faster than them and out executing them. Any advice for founders just getting started? " Any advice for founders just getting started? Alex: Oh, we trip all the time! Per container!

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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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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. Mine, I edit constantly. That’s the other thing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“Every strategy is unique and depends on the company’s idea of how it wants to proceed,” writes Valiotti. “Therefore, you should consider freemium as an extension of your strategy and see if it is right for you.” Let’s roll that back a bit : Eldar Tuvey explains how you can cut your SaaS spending by 30% in 2023.

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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. According to data gathered by Rob Olson, partner and head of data strategy at venture engine M13, startups that have two or more experienced founders tend to exit 33% faster and raise 34% less capital.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Planning is key for implementing a successful immigration strategy. Generally, your startup and your H-1B candidate should start assembling documents you will need to submit.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see Party A will also routinely ask members of Party C for IPO advice.

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