Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. A pitch deck is a teaser, where its goal is to create an appetite for further conversations and this can work equally well with prospective co-founders as it does with investors. Get the pitch right Tell a great story Startups that tell a great story get funding.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The clearest mechanism for this support was wartime expenditures on research and development by the U.S. Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. But that doesn’t change the fact the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. In 2019, The New York Times published an article headlined “More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost.”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Note: I originally published this article in 2019 to share my lessons-learned from mapping a local ecosystem. How do you assess and find what resources are available, then organize it all, document it, and publish it to make it available? Also, reach out and meet with the entrepreneurial support organizations in your community.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Associating with an app that visible, particularly one that’s in the red-hot generative AI space, is bound to get attention — a fact to which this article is a testament. “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support. In any case, it’s a reasonably compelling sales pitch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In his spare time, he pitched competitions and accelerators. Soffio remembers air raid sirens going off and said for the first few minutes of the call, the conversation was not about business but instead about finding a way to support Yenkalov’s escape from the country. Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Each respondent was kind enough to let us know how they want to be pitched, and for grins, one shared an example of a cold e-mail that worked,” she writes. 10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

I haven’t launched a successful startup, but I have helped write several pitch decks. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

In a companion article on TechCrunch , Eric explores these broader shifts, concluding, “you can start to see a world emerging that sounds a lot more like the fantasies of a New Urbanist than the world before the pandemic.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. yourprotagonist. Let’s explore.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Because “younger startups are now increasingly getting caught in the act” when it comes to misleading investors, Rebecca Szkutak asked several VCs about the red flags they look for while assessing a pitch and performing due diligence.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Founders and LPs will read into your personal vacation pictures on instagram, just as much as they’ll consider the amount of time you spend responding to comments on LinkedIn articles. I typically share my draft article with relevant domain experts, which makes me more educated about the topic I’m digging into.

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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. . Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. 5) Manage relationships (CRM).

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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. . Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. TABS Group offers a standardized due diligence scorecard, TABSScore.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve got to go consult documentation. Today, most context windows are around 32K, but bigger context windows are coming—and with them, the ability to run larger documents with more context through LLMs. I think I saw an article yesterday that NVIDIA is going to build another 1.5M I see this stuff massively scaling up.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Founders and LPs will read into your personal vacation pictures on instagram, just as much as they’ll consider the amount of time you spend responding to comments on LinkedIn articles. I typically share my draft article with relevant domain experts, which makes me more educated about the topic I’m digging into.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

“Dirty” or structured term sheets are proposed investments where the majority of the economic gains for the investor come not from the headline valuation, but rather through a series of dirty terms that are hidden deeper in the document. You should probably move on to another company. More on this later.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see Interestingly, as more and more members of Party C move to compete in the late stage private market, they often pitch as “value-add” that they will help you navigate the public offering process because they have so much “experience.” see below).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

The best part, he documented the journey so others could follow in his legendary foot steps. After reading the article I signed up for MicroAcquire. So I immediately requested more information and dropped a little sales pitch as to why the owners should meet with me. No support, No updates, No server expenses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“However, current market conditions do not support having just a single model.” ” In this TC+ article, he explains how to identify the right time to roll out a freemium plan and, equally importantly, when not to. 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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