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A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings

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He believes that when startup founders know how to raise money, they can find the freedom to approach investors with confidence and raise the capital they need to grow their company. Tal developed his methodologies in the course of leading five startups over more than 20 years. How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider.

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

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Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

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The ongoing AI boom is a contributing factor: 54 of the 282 companies in this cohort “are specifically building generative AI startups,” reported Natasha Mascarenhas. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

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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.

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Extra Crunch roundup: UiPath’s IPO filing, predicting revenue, how to pivot properly, much more

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This is not a boast, but a warning: I could write a how-to article on almost any topic. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. How we dodged risks and raised millions for our open-source machine learning startup. How we dodged risks and raised millions for our open-source machine learning startup.

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EC roundup: BNPL startups, growth marketing tips, solid state battery market map, more

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Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. “So we had three BNPL players with known earnings, and I had just covered a startup funding round in the space.” Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck. RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5-year business models, RevOps tactics, how much to pay founders?

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About 10% of startups will fail in their first year. But those figures don’t matter when you’re pitching: Investors expect to see a business plan that describes how you plan to reach profitability within 3-5 years. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Should they even get paid at all?

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