StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. As part of my role as a partner of HealthInc, I sit on the jury for the startup competition in which 20 finalists pitch their ventures, with 10 then selected to enter the program. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS). Franklin D.

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2021

What advice would you give to someone in your shoes, knowing what you know now? Once you have an understanding of your purpose , you may figure out how thought leadership allows you to create a lasting impact. However, they don’t know much about the company’s leadership. A good example would be my own thought leadership pieces.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

3 Tips to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

My advice to founders with an idea is to spend less time in the “idea” stage and more time on execution. We see a lot of funds that write a lot of thought leadership to garner the attention of founders and it’s nice material. For this reason, we are hyper-concentrated on picking great founders that can predict the future for us.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

On Monday, we’ll run columns with practical advice for exploring both of those scenarios. If you don’t, this TC+ guest post contains useful advice for budgeting, negotiating and strategizing to save your hard-won equity. Pitch Deck Teardown: Forethought’s $65M Series C deck. Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. I hear way too many entrepreneurs pitch stuff that I don’t understand—and I’m sure they don’t understand either. Words to live—and learn—by. It is not complicated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This demonstrates a clear expectation on the part of VC investors to have a male counterpart within the founding team of their portfolio companies, and that they often — whether subconsciously or consciously — value men’s input over that of the women on the leadership team. Get funded, as a woman.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time? As Techstars’ track record fell further and further behind YC, their investor sales pitch of “buying an index of the global startup ecosystem” fell flat.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Frankly, it’s the kind of narrative that had normally been reserved for men in the startup world—pitch a dream on a piece of paper, raise tens of millions from the likes of Sequoia, embody the visible visionary leader, grace the magazine cover. And no, chatting about the price of your NFT doesn’t make you a community.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2020

The combination of all of these factors creates an opportunity for companies to provide information and thought leadership during a difficult time—or even simply entertainment. Recently, I tried to think of the two very best people I could imagine would have great advice for startups facing a potential venture downturn.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. So why is this initiative so important for men, women and other gender identities?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Last week, right after I finished up this newsletter, I turned to Twitter and saw controversy over whether venture capitalists should charge founders for advice on their pitch decks. The anger came from the potential that founders could get confused on whether that advice could lean to a future investment from the same VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. A lack of leadership ?—?Set Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! He compiled a scary list, and offers some solutions, including: Too much emphasis on building a great product? —?Use Set clear, achievable goals together with the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. this is classic community management. And it would be?—?but

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Here are some guidelines for you – particularly for VC pitch meetings. Weave in their pitch to an overall pitch narrative. Startup Advice' I sit through a lot of presentations. Help them prepare and practice.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model. The leadership promptly communicated the issue to investors, highlighting the steps being taken to address the problem. We tackled it by emphasizing a tangible prototype over traditional pitches.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

If your startup has a clear brand pitch, “an enticing offer” and “clear next steps,” you’re ready to reach out to influencers , he says. It can also be potentially disruptive: Early marketing and product managers may feel sidelined by new cross-functional teams that suddenly take a leadership role.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 31, 2023

You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss How to build businesses that withstand the AI revolution Why your pitch is making your startup seem too magical P.S. If you’re deep in the entrepreneurial trenches and have a story to tell, we’d love to read it (and publish it).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Mark advises that when you’re introducing yourself to someone and making your elevator pitch, that you need a distinction, a differentiation. Ramon relates and he’s told followers, “Listen, your job when you’re pitching is not trying to get everything in that package. According to Mark, “too many things…is more than one.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. That’s called product leadership.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

SmartHustle Podcast with Ramon Ray · Business Growth Advice for Scaling Your Business. Usually, there's one other founder or one other person on the senior leadership side. I'm trying to do as many sales pitches as I can. The post Business Growth Advice for Your Business appeared first on SmartHustle.com. Listen Now.

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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? Under your leadership, how much funding has your startup raised? More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A year before starting my first company, my cofounders and I were pitching our startup to every startup competitions we knew about. Our last pitch was awarded $15k, so we stashed around $30k (all from competitions) and we started a company. On most of them, we got one of the top three places and a $2–5k reward.

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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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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.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Thanks to Dell , she tells her entrepreneurship and leadership story. She also explains the importance of her family, her new book, the Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network, and her advice to entrepreneurs both young and old. Mikaila says she has also learned about pitching, public speaking, and branding because of DWEN events.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2019

Mostly because it’s more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors. What advice would you offer to small business owners trying to be more innovative? And this time can’t be spent pitching or selling or attending the big game together.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2020

After participating in YLAI, I better understood how to pitch my organization and understand its mission and values more concretely. Is there any advice that you would give to other YLAI Network members aspiring to be entrepreneurs? Clarifying my business goals. Discovering how to help my community.

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Onevest

MAY 12, 2015

Via a Slideshare presentation on ‘Building Thought Leadership in an age of Curation’ , Corinne Weisgerber, Ph.D. These principles of trust and context are seconded by the Knight Foundation in its advice for entrepreneurs. But, done right; curation can have immense value. And Twitter is still betting big with its new Curator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. I’ve been pitched by hundreds of entrepreneurs who never actually asked me whether I would invest. Startup Advice' When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Latin American VC Hernan Haro confirmed my perception: “Most Latin American VCs are chasing the same entrepreneurs, those ‘proven’ by a track record as founders or past leadership roles at unicorns. Granted, they are more successful at raising capital, but that’s more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything else.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. On one side you have PT Barnum-like preparation for “the pitch” and scores of potential investors looking to get into the latest hot company.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

At the beginning of David’s particular program, there was an intensive boot camp period which coached individuals on how to tighten their pitch and develop a business plan. An essential piece of advice David received in the cohort was to not worry about creating something entirely new and groundbreaking. Connect with your peers.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

Among them were winners from the recent 2020 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan and pitch competition , Cadenzo and Novel Nuero, both based in Tulsa. In his e3 pitch, Marc LaManque, founder and CEO, explained that the word Cadenzo is derived from an Italian word that indicates the end of a musical phrase and the beginning of a new one.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

Among them were winners from the recent 2020 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan and pitch competition , Cadenzo and Novel Nuero, both based in Tulsa. In his e3 pitch, Marc LaManque, founder and CEO, explained that the word Cadenzo is derived from an Italian word that indicates the end of a musical phrase and the beginning of a new one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Privately you all acknowledge that nobody believes in it yet we’re letting our leadership continue to invest our money and reputation on something we know is going to fail because it has no real basis. I found that most VC’s never gave me any feedback when I was pitching. I’m OK with that.

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