Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. Consider what Paul Graham said in this article. I don’t want any formal pitches. So this becomes your dealflow. Everyone is moving fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I have sat through countless pitches with Ivy League grads spewing off intellectual descriptions of the details of their product or service and why it will win in the market. In a VC pitch this type of messaging will do just fine. Sure, she could pitch it as a P2P marketplace.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

I''m incredibly excited to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures'' investment in Plum Print. I''ll talk more about my investment in another post, but what I really loved about their announcement today was how great the article in Techcrunch was. You sent them the same pitch you sent everywhere else. Venture Capital & Technology'

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I like the angle you took on this particular article/I appreciate that you''ve taken the time to highlight what all these companies are doing because others aren''t/something nice about the reporter''s effort. Work with other companies to share contact lists, introduce each other to other reporters, and to pitch things together.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. I think my mentality to banker pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. They know how to build pitch decks.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. What stage?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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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. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. Take one topic and break it up into 10 bite-sized articles.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Here are Michael’s expanded answers to the most asked questions about these issues, including links to some of our past articles to help elaborate on these themes. . Angel investors or venture capitalists will require that entrepreneurs sell shares (equity) of their companies for investment.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Yet, the lessons learned from their $8mm round of funding announced this week are still widely applicable to every startup--particularly food startups and those in four walls retail that struggle through the traditional venture process. Would we pitch Series A players? Here's what I think everyone involved learned in this process.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Over on TC+ , I just launched a new series called Pitch Deck Teardowns! Astute readers may already have figured out what that is all about: You submit a pitch deck and we share it with our readers, highlighting things that are awesome, making suggestions for improvements and celebrating the fun, innovative and surprising things that we find.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

My first article for the monthly edition was on AOL. Ironically enough, the second nudge she gave my career also had to do with AOL--ten years later when in 2009, she introduced me to Jon Brod who was forming AOL Ventures. That's how you win out in the venture and startup world. Don't get me wrong. Are there examples of that?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The crew here at TechCrunch has done a lot of writing about making amazing pitch decks over the years, and I figured it was time that I put together a collection of all of it in one handy spot. A lot of these articles are part of TechCrunch+ — TechCrunch’s premium subscription product. Before you start pitching.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. Más o menos.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. Weren’t entrepreneurs tired of the golden handcuffs of venture capitalists and bankers?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Jan contributed this article with help from Rhonda Suttle, EO Atlanta executive director, and Thamara Ataide, EO Atlanta marketing manager. Never share your exit strategy with venture capitalists. Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. Here are 11 tips EO members shared: 1.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. 33 Flatbush.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. To any prospective investor you look like you’ve failed even before your first pitch. And of course there are always outliers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). The founders of Quora were respected technologists at Facebook and knew a thing or two about bacn and toast before setting up their highly sought after venture. Want to do a Q&A website?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Distilling our 40-minute conversation into a single article was beyond my abilities, so I’ll share a follow-up next week with additional takeaways from our chat and the audience Q&A that followed. Pitch deck teardown: Minut. Pitch Deck Teardown: Minut.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. ” This week, we’re running several articles on entrepreneurship as TechCrunch staffers recap their conversations and panel discussions from our Early Stage event earlier this month. Why a16z pitched Deel to lead its Series A. Stay tuned!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series , and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequently is that it’s easy to be a critic: What would we have done? So for this week’s pitch deck teardown, we’re going to try something different. At its heart, though, the deck was good.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 5 critical pitch deck slides most founders get wrong. What’s your ideal product use case? Possible outcomes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Momentum pulled off what every entrepreneur dreams of: Last year, it closed a lead investor for its seed round — which our own Ron Miller covered at the time — without even creating a pitch deck. Once a lead was secured, Momentum created a pitch deck to fill out the round. Makes the pitch feel current.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Over the last six months, I’ve written up 25 Pitch Deck Teardowns — the popular series of articles where I review a pitch deck in detail, celebrating the wins and gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) suggesting improvements. A pitch is a story, and stories have audiences. Let’s gooooo. Series A deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In his latest article, he explains why copying your rivals’ most successful marketing strategies can be one of the fastest ways to get traction with new customers. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. Start here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Last week, I covered the company’s $7 million seed funding round , and the company’s CEO, On Freund, was gracious enough to let me use the deck the company created to close that round for my Pitch Deck Teardown series. Oh, yeah, pitch decks and the tearing down thereof. Where were we? Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. Even if you are lucky enough to land a meeting, it’s more likely that a junior person went through your pitch and ran it up the chain. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Walter Thompson Contributor Share on Twitter Editorial Manager Walter Thompson edits staff and guest articles for TechCrunch+ and manages TechCrunch's guest contributor program. If you’re an early-stage investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Apply here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

“Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

This article is based on an episode of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast, where Tal shared his seven-step method to managing a meeting with investors, including actionable tips for effectively following up on promising pitches. Before you get into your pitch, lay out what they can expect from the meeting. ” Iddo Tal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Unlike other business owner communities, people aren’t joining to pitch you on their company’s products or services, so you can build real relationships and help one another. and more articles from the EO blog. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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