TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Not a scientific sampling, but I noticed that several investors signaled this week on Twitter that they remain interested in talking to founders who are still at the idea stage. If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2023

Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates. What types of companies/sectors do you look to invest in?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Raising funding is no easy feat, especially for first-time founders. You need a solid business plan, traction to demonstrate market fit, and the skills to pitch effectively. Yet founders often trip up when it comes to investor relations — the ongoing communication and relationship building after that first check clears.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. ” Marta Meszaros – Founder. ” Abbe Hyde – Founder. Never give up.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many of us invest much of our identity in what we do for a living, which means layoffs can transform social and emotional lives overnight. I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. Losing a job unexpectedly is more than a financial shock.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

The venture capital market is slowing down, which means early-stage founders are chasing a smaller pool of money. “Oftentimes, investors have a sense of whether a pitch is going to go somewhere within the first 15-20 minutes of a conversation.” Not all investors expect to invest in the next unicorn.”. billion to $1.81

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a galaxy of talented and/or well-connected startup founders out there, but few have any prior fundraising experience, which levels the playing field by an inch or two. Telling a story clearly and succinctly is table stakes, but so many founders miss this step. Sarah Kunst, Cleo Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Investors think a great deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? How good is the founder-market fit? I often see product-focused founders spending a lot of time talking about the solution they are building. Is it venture-scale? That makes sense.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this guest Dreamit Dose, Jason Calacanis (@jason), a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular podcasts This Week in Startups and Angel, answers the top 5 questions he gets about angel investing. It is very common for angel investors to be former founders who have already accumulated wealth.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I'm often the last one to leave an event, held back by the most persistant of entrepreneurs trying to squeeze as much advice as they can out of me. I've only recently started leading investments a little over two years ago. Often times, the advice is terrible or impractical. I mean, what do I know? It doesn't stop anyone else.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The crew here at TechCrunch has done a lot of writing about making amazing pitch decks over the years, and I figured it was time that I put together a collection of all of it in one handy spot. Are you VC-investable? Before you start pitching. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

If a VC has experience in a different field, it may not translate well — if at all — to a startup, and advice around certain business decisions could quickly become outdated. There is a growing group of VC funds led by folks who think they might be better suited to back companies because they are currently startup founders themselves.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you’ve read anything about pitching your company, you’ve probably come across advice that says that you need a warm introduction to an investor. Without a doubt, a good, friendly introduction — ideally from a founder they’ve already invested in — is the best way to get on the radar of an investor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I have spent most of the last two years investing at Series B and helping portfolio companies prepare for this first “growth-y” round. This is one of the lessons I wish I understood when raising a Series B, so I hope you find this advice helpful when you navigate your larger raises.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times.

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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.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Most founders are not experienced entrepreneurs, which means they tend to repeat the same mistakes as they try to overcome universal challenges. According to Klaviyo co-founder and chief product Ed Hallen , luck was a contributing factor to his marketing automation company’s success. Why a16z pitched Deel to lead its Series A.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Top 3 DIY tactics, according to a former BBC journalist turned media relations troubleshooter Image by author I sifted at least 100,000 story pitches when I worked on the main planning desks for BBC News (radio, tv, and online) and its investigative show Panorama. They just need the right insights and tools to pitch successfully.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Lisa Wu, a partner at Norwest with investments like Calm, Plaid, Opendoor and Grove Collaborative, has a message for founders: Think like a VC during your pitch presentation. She’ll discuss ways that founders can read the virtual room, how to take advice and how to talk big-picture ideas to convey market size and competition.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

In his latest column, Sales Kiwi co-founder and TC+ contributor Jonathan Martinez shared five essential takeaways that he learned along the way to reaching $1M ARR. Drawing from the early chapters of her book, this post includes a target prospect list for new investors, along with relationship-building advice from experienced VCs.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

You might think my job is about saying “yes” to founders, but statistically it’s *actually* about saying “no,” given we typically see 3,000+ companies annually in order to make 10–12 investments. Founder/Team Bios Which Feel Deceptive. As with all advice, Your Mileage Might Vary. Fortunately They’re Really Simple To Fix!

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

The market for startup investment has changed. 3 views: How should founders prepare for a decline in startup valuations and investor interest? Investors are pushing founders to be lean, but at the same time, offering them $10,000 to take PTO for a week and try their hand at entrepreneurship. January 2022).

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Now, Lok is bringing his expertise and passion to the forefront with Awesome Ventures, aiming to provide invaluable support and resources to startup founders during the critical early stages of their companies. What types of sectors do you look to invest in? And what’s your mental model for investing?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings. I usually tell founders that cold emails to prospective investors aren’t all that effective. A lot of founders skip the research phase, though. Michael Bamberger is not that kind of founder. Michael Bamberger is not that kind of founder. “I’ve

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Milana Lewis, CEO and co-founder of music tech startup Stem , started the fundraising process long before she actually asked any investors for money (dig the well before you’re thirsty — it’s the best way). She recommends that other founders do the same. Are you ready for the coming wave of VC down rounds?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Yet many pieces of fundraising advice to founders paint the process with a broad brush. They spoke about navigating the process, what worked (and what didn’t) and how to customize your pitch to navigate the many subtleties of fundraising.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 6, 2024

Clipboard Health founder and CEO Wei Deng tells me the company went through “six to eight different pivots” before it evolved into what it’s known for today. ” Seven months pregnant at the time, Wei was Ubering from facility to facility to pitch the concept of Clipboard Health. Or the second. Or the third.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. I’ve invested in several startups that started out as international companies and either moved to the U.S. I often see founders come here because they want access to those investors. and globally.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. Are you actually ready to pitch? When pitching, the startup has to put a number on the table. When pitching, the startup has to put a number on the table. But, set the valuation too high, and you won’t get any investment. Let’s do this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

ET, I’m hosting a Twitter Space with Silicon Valley immigration lawyer Sophie Alcorn, who writes the “Dear Sophie” advice column for TechCrunch+ each Wednesday. For better or for worse: Managing founder-CEO tension inside a startup. Previously, the co-founders of MongoDB hired him to be their CEO. PT/11:30 a.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Just ask Rob Bailey.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. The investment platform I founded and run, VenturePole, is the investment partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp, the biggest startup accelerator organization in Europe. Keep it short.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Not all money is created equal: A VC’s advice for founders. I recently wrote a piece discussing how all capital is not created equal and we are living in a period of super-abundant funding — in many ways, the best times ever for founders. I invested in Facebook before their Series C, therefore I have all the answers.”

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