Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. Tags: Start-up Advice. But we worked the account tirelessly for months.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve unapologetically hyper-focused this shopping solution for women, as informed and directed by my personal experience and the experiences of my users as women, moms, and what I refer to as “household procurement specialists.” I still regularly meet with i2E for advice as I’m building my company. Don’t ever put limits on yourself.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

During the first week of that class, we all had to do a short pitch of a startup idea and convince our classmates to join our “startup”. I pitched a startup called “HubSpot”, which ended up being one of the ideas chosen. Note: this is not investment advice). Or references. Q: How should I pitch my startup to you?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. can still offer a compelling sales pitch to businesses with more “consultative” customer support needs, where automation will only be able to play a far more limited role.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest? Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. Pitch perfect, you might think. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In North America, these refer as private investment in public entity (PIPE), where institutional investors or accredited investors invest in a public company at a certain discount to the current market price. We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool. Build trust. front seat now to drive the valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

With some of the ugly out of the way — my words, not hers — T2 has examples it can refer back to on how to handle tensions around virality, doxxing and more. My big question is if VCs are taking the same advice that they’re dishing. It just made me think about that larger comprehension coupled with the nimbleness of a startup.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

As we saw in part 1 of this EC-1 , this led him to the revelation that it’s easier to figure things out for yourself than finding advice that applies to you. Meanwhile, read on for highlights from our chat with Olson, Grooms Lee and Adler, and then stay tuned at the end for a recording of the full session, including our live pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. Pitch perfect, you might think. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Exclusion of Demo Days from Being Considered a “General Solicitation” – Demo Days in which startups fundraising “pitch” to potential investors have long been problematic due to restrictions on “general solicitations” applicable to several of the exemptions.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I see amazing entrepreneurs still being met with significant bias in their grant applications, pitches, accelerator experiences, and interactions with investors is immensely frustrating. It’s challenging because it can be difficult to determine when a conversation, meeting, or simple advice can make a sharp impact on an entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

If you are a sports fan, you will have regularly heard how important it is to have a team of leaders on the pitch, not just rely on one. My advice is that even the senior team should set its own distinctive purpose so that it can set its own performance goals to measure itself against. High performing teams have more fun!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. And I always encourage entrepreneurs to do reference checking. Always Pitch Outsiders for Follow Ons.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. I do my own reference calls. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. ” And I would say it’s kind of 50% adoption of people who take me up on that. Tomasz Tunguz: Oh, interesting. Mine, I edit constantly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The latter refers to companies that are working on the infrastructure the sector will rely on once in full bloom, and the consensus among specialized investors is that they make for very worthy bets. My strong advice to new capital in the industry is to partner with experienced cannabis investors. I do love a warm pitch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Behind every startup, SME and scaleup statistic, and behind every failed pitch, idea, or venture is a human being with thoughts, feelings and frailties like anyone else. Everything else we do (our “What” – programmes, pitches, funding) is secondary.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

Do you have a track record that proves you’re a credible source of advice on this issue? However, these executives usually have multiple lines of defense to shield them from sales pitches. This is why provocation-based selling requires the vendor to utilize what Moore refers to as “soft power”, specifically “relationship capital.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. I have also heard it referred to as a “narrative deck” — basically a detailed, written version of your pitch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Plus, they were gracious enough to share some of the advice they’re giving to their portfolio companies. We also work hard to perform due diligence on every investment opportunity we pursue by spending significant time with the company, with a deep market study, and as many references as possible on the teams we back.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Snippets of advice, tactics, and tools I used to raise an oversubscribed round during an economic downturn Image: Author I’m writing this blog post on the heels of closing our oversubscribed round during what’s been described as the worst time in history to raise capital. Let’s start with the tools we used at Supademo: Canva and Journey.io

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Not all money is created equal: A VC’s advice for founders. In this environment, every investor has a well-honed pitch on how they can uniquely add value. This is the investor who tells you to follow their advice because, “We used to do this when I was at Google,” or, “When I was on Airbnb’s board, we did this.”

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We are setting up the following process: every time a company mails us their pitch or further information, we send to a special email, e.g., inbound(@)versatilevc.com. It’s also helpful for identifying people with whom we can do reference checking. I asked Franklin Tsung, CEO, BlackCrown Corporation , for his advice to buyers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer. Trusted advice comes from experience. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. At TechCrunch Early Stage, she led a session on how to nail your virtual pitch meeting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Once you’ve reached out, pitch them on why they should support your launch! Step 3: Create a “Coming Soon” page ? Next, you’ll want to create a “Coming Soon” page on Product Hunt to funnel leads towards your upcoming launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever. If they want reference calls be ballsy. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice (although this also applies tightly with Raising Venture Capital ). If they want reference calls be ballsy. I’ve done it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Now they’re moving to commercialize their XayNet technology by applying it within a user-facing search app — aiming for what CEO and co-founder, Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk bills as a “Zoom”-style business model, in reference to the ubiquitous videoconferencing tool which has both free and paid users.

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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. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. I wasn’t feeling it.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. What about pitch competitions that sound like Ancient Roman death matches? The person goes on to blame the uncommonness of the name.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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. And then I also think with references, founders are typically showing up with their 5 to 7 reference questions. It’s just poor form.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Across 2,908 VC-backed IPOs the first day underpricing (euphemistically referred to as a “pop”) is 28.3%. “ If you were selling a company to Google, would you trust Google’s banker to give you advice at the same time? Party A will also routinely ask members of Party C for IPO advice. Why would you want advice from them?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Its websites refers to this device as a “collection wand” — and we gather there’s a sponge involved — but details of what exactly it looks like and how it will function remain under wraps as the startup is still in the process of applying for FDA clearance, per Teal’s CEO, Kara Egan.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. It’s true that many VCs over promise how helpful they’ll be with introductions / strategic advice / recruiting, etc. What’s the difference?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Incidentally, VC’s hate when they hear companies pitching who say, “ I don’t have real competitors &# as I outlined point three in the linked post). Tags: Start-up Advice. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. I know I didn’t.

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