TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

According to Kyle Poyar, a partner at OpenView, the current downturn is creating similar opportunities for SaaS startups. ET, M13 Managing Partner Karl Alomar will join me on a Twitter Space to share his advice for fundraising during a downturn. ” 3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst explains how to get ready to raise your next round. EDT/10 p.m.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? My dream is to immigrate to Silicon Valley to start my own venture. Any advice? Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Ben Blume, partner at the venture capital firm, is joining the board as part of the investment. “Our customers can easily connect with one of our partner law firms for bespoke legal advice whenever desired.” The round brings the startup’s total raised since being founded back in 2018 to €14M.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it. If someone offers you free business advice, it’s probably for their own benefit. In business, if someone’s offering you advice, it’s probably for their own benefit. Newbie in Newark.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

A lot of my work as a consultant involves helping founders come up with a good fundraising story, but a surprising number of founders seem to get stuck on the next step: Finding the right investors and landing a meeting to pitch their companies. That’s a problem. Are you a business-to-consumer (B2C) company?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Jerry Lu , senior associate, Maveron.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

We want to know how they connected, and what advice they have for founders in the SaaS space. TechCrunch Live is all about helping startups build better venture-backed businesses. We want to walk through Databook’s early pitch decks for this episode and speak to what caught Threshold and Stein’s attention.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. Ask @YourProtagonist tomorrow, October 19 at 3 pm PT/ 6 pm ET during our Q&A (but please save your pitches to send over via email!) — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 18, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

We want to know how they connected, and what advice they have for founders in the SaaS space. TechCrunch Live is all about helping startups build better venture-backed businesses. We want to walk through Databook’s early pitch decks for this episode and speak to what caught Threshold and Stein’s attention.

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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. During a seed-funding round, a founder needs to convince a venture capital investor on a vision. Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner, Arbor Ventures. Jonathan Whittle, co-founder and partner, Quona Capital. Jason Brown, partner, Victory Park Capital. “As a former venture capitalist, I always tell founders that the most powerful tool they can employ while fundraising is a data-driven pitch.”

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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. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M seed round pitch deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M seed round pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Upadhyay pitches the algorithm as a time saver, but it should be noted that these sorts of models have the potential to amplify bias in the hiring process. Upadhyay didn’t directly respond to a question about algorithmic bias, but he pointed out that WizeHire also provides advice from hiring and business coaches.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

A significant jump from $700 million the year before, but compared to SaaS, not even a drop in the bucket. In a deeply researched post, Mary Ann Azevedo and Alex Wilhelm examine how fintech overtook and outperformed every other sector to the point where its outlines mirror that of the broader venture market. “To

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

I haven’t launched a successful startup, but I have helped write several pitch decks. This article also covers how to hire and pay for custom market research, the best people to ask for advice, and the importance of only using credible sources. It was always the last slide we worked on.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Cue the horse and pony show : 3 VCs explain how founders can stand out when pitching , by Becca. So you cut your SaaS bill…Now what’s next? Three more from the TC+ team: A test of the times : The UserTesting sale to private equity is bad news for unicorns , by Alex. Beyond cost control: Where cloud management is going next , by Anna.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pitching a startup to investors without a personal recommendation isn’t a terrible idea — as long as you’ve done your research first. Rigopoulos and Bamberger shared their cold-calling advice with TC+, along with the full text of one of their winning emails and a detailed breakdown of the three-step process they used.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. Developed a SaaS-based white-label web3 platform that opens revenue streams and strengthens community engagement. Recently closed a new funding round of €1M from SMOK Ventures, a US-Polish venture capital fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Startups and VC Also today, we are releasing the final episode of our Inside Startup Battlefield podcast miniseries , which is all about TechCrunch’s pitch competition. And we have five more for you: Board already : Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs is to not sit on their founders’ boards , Natasha M reports.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tapping into someone else’s experience is a tried-and-true method, which is why two-time Y Combinator participant Chris Morton wrote a guest post for Extra Crunch with advice for founders hoping to be accepted by the famed accelerator. Latin America’s increasingly dynamic venture capital scene has been making headlines of late.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score. Establishing a computer repair business may be validated through online research of already existing businesses or by speaking with former or current owners to learn their experience and gain their advice.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

A founder with a startup focused on selling groceries online should begin their pitch by describing the total money projected to be spent on groceries online over the coming years. To raise capital as a very early-stage business, you have to convince investors that your current size isn’t indicative of where you will be in the future.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. “In 10 days, I can do the primary research and work with the founders to come to a conclusion there. Because no one cares if the market is terrible.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator!

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

She runs a great column on TechCrunch with tons of immigration advice, and tomorrow Walter is doing a Twitter Spaces Q&A with her. Paragon gets SaaSier : Paragon, a startup building a platform that integrates and aggregates various software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, wants to be the Plaid of enterprise SaaS. Big Tech Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. Congratulations. Sometimes that works.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Our ongoing search for the best startup growth marketers is yielding results: reporter Anna Heim interviewed SaaS and early-stage startup marketing consultant Lucy Heskins to learn more about the mistakes her clients are most likely to make before they seek her help. How do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers would like to hear more about, and the answer is always the same: Actionable advice that is backed up by data and/or experience. Confluent’s IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets. ’ with $1.6B Depop purchase.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. I wasn’t trying to pitch a tightly controlled message about my company. It started socially.

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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?&#. It really started simply enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 But then the truth sets in. Even at 18.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Alex Wilhelm uses his weekday column The Exchange to keep a close eye on “private companies, public markets and the gray space in between,” but one effort stood out: An overview of six API-based startups that were “raising capital in rapid-fire fashion” when many companies were trying to find their COVID-19 footing.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services , Flow , Proteus Capital , and Vauban.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck. With that ethos in mind, Lucas Matney interviewed Pilot CEO Waseem Daher to deconstruct the pitch deck that helped his company land a $60M Series C round. ” Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck.

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