Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. I know that “mission driven” sounds nebulous or some convenient definition of anything we want to fund. But really it’s something I look for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both. Kind of the obvious next step.

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Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. Comment on other people’s blogs, as well as writing your own.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. We’ll see. TechStars Interactions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). The best ones are visual, high-level, have a narrative, move swiftly, are designed to prompt questions as much as “pitch&# your company and importantly have a narrative.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. The amount of investment in IP in any direct sense is generally small for early stage startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

No startup on the face of the earth has ever gotten so much free PR in the history of entrepreneurship. Momentum at the right time paves the way for startup success. I remember one day last summer when Dennis Crowley and I both went to pitch the same biz dev partner—me with Path 101 and him with Foursquare.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

In the startup world, we often talk about painkillers versus vitamins. Hiring your first employees into a startup is storytelling: You are spinning a story that contrasts their steady, reliable job at an established company, pitching it against taking a chance on your startup. It sounds so simple. Advertising?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

It definitely has a “d” in it, as in it’s really not fun, raising. Sure, you need to learn what the common theme of the no’s are and be willing to make adjustments to your pitch. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. … Fund raising.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

No startup on the face of the earth has ever gotten so much free PR in the history of entrepreneurship. Momentum at the right time paves the way for startup success. I remember one day last summer when Dennis Crowley and I both went to pitch the same biz dev partner—me with Path 101 and him with Foursquare. Maybe… maybe not.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Ann Miura-Ko has been called “ the most powerful woman in startups ” by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford. The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology startups from when she was a teenager. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I think the lab has definitely changed my life. Specifically, we learn things like pitch decks, focus groups, financial profit and loss statements, legal work and so much more that goes into getting a business started and off the ground. I came after being a student for six years, unsure of what I wanted to do. Rebecca Carroll.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. First off, hello to all the new Startups Weekly subscribers who joined us after last week’s newsletter. Luckily, there’s a startup angle to tell us more. I’ll be there.

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Feedough

MARCH 15, 2021

The platform is a true definition of business social networking. Advertisement Inlytics– Startup Review By Feedough. We discussed the concept, vision, and future prospects of the startup with Tim Schmidbauer, the founder and CEO of Inlytics. Here are his thoughts on the startup –. What’s the story behind this startup?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: DocSend At DocSend , we spend a lot of time analyzing the data behind what it takes for startup founders to market their ideas, land meetings with VCs, and in turn source and close deals?—?from The graph above shows a definite point of diminishing returns when contacting LPs, somewhere around 60–70. from pre-seed to Series A.

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Gust

MAY 22, 2012

We do it that way so neither we not the startup have to decide what percentage our money is worth until later, as it grows, and bigger investment follows. . This year we started with more than 30 submissions from startups. That’s worked out very well for us, which is part of the reason I blog on this site regularly. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Designing for Success: Focused, Customer-driven Approach to Launching Tech Products Picture credits: [link] The number one reason why startups fail is due to misreading market demand?—?found Blogs/media outlets? If they were to talk about your company to their friends / partners / customers what would their elevator pitch look like?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you can, I recommend join HubSpot for Startups , which offers generous discounts. Price was definitely a consideration. Ideally, we wanted to pull in data from outside databases , including data about limited partners and more broadly the startup ecosystem (e.g., The main reasons: First, all-in-one functionality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And last but definitely not least, the latest extension — which closed in December but is only now being publicly announced — effectively doubles Human Interest’s valuation from its financing a few months prior. . Despite being just a few years old, Schneble said the company doesn’t view itself as a startup. “We

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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. Equity: Yeah, but is that venture backable?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I must have pitched 40-50 VCs over the years. As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. Best line: “we’re a definite maybe.&# I was an entrepreneur for years. Possibly more.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

3/ Investors across seed and larger venture firms all hold slightly different definitions of various “seed” stages and are positioned to invest in them at any time. Ask 101 seed investors for their definition of “pre-seed” or the various phases in seed and you’ll get 101 answers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2011

And if you think this blog post was specifically targeting YOU because you asked me to lunch – it isn’t. Let’s say it’s for biz dev purposes, or you’re pitching investors, recruiting, or it’s a sales meeting – whatever. enough I value every night with my family. I have nobody in mind.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 10, 2021

Startup of the week: Kaholo. Startup of the week: Kaholo automation workflow software Kaholo offers the simplest and fastest comprehensive solution for creating, testing, and executing automation workflows with full control, based on its intuitive and visual workflow. Cyabra exposes vaccine disinformation. Learn more. DoorDash Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2010

Over the last couple of months, I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting with a ton of early stage startups. I’m not talking about having a great pitch—because sometimes a pitch isn’t what a particular style of meeting really calls for. There’s now a link on my blog where it says Meet in the navbar that links to my Tungle.me

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

Three Rules of Fundraising “Sales” One of the common mistakes I see startups as well as VCs make is spending too much time on top of funnel prospecting. it’s not just startups who do it. it’s not just startups who do it. In fact, I wrote a previous blog post on “ Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. If they blog make sure to read what they think on topics.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

How good were their pitch skills? You can’t run a startup without funds. Programs like these require significant time and money, but are occasional and definitely worth the travel. During the call, I pushed back on why I was too busy to attend. This helped me discover: Could they do the research? Did they seem stressed?

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

China’s Age of Malaise [Evan Osnos/New Yorker] – A loooong read but essential stuff if you are interested in China from an sort of view (cultural, economic, geopolitical, startup). Even more importantly we want to be able to bring just one of the startups to their next investors as representing ‘our investment in [market x].’

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. As late-stage tech startups face the changing environment in the public markets, their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether. 10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. If you lost your job this year and have an interesting story of what you did next, and how your definition of risk changed, my Twitter DMs are open. Corporate comms for the startup soul .

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Sam: Prior to that, you had another startup that you sold for a significant amount of money, we can talk about that. Sam: You're an angel investor in a lot of different startups, including Coinbase and things like that. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? Definitely maybe. Shaan: Right.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We both like doing business with startups and with small business owners and trying to turn small businesses into big businesses. He had started a couple companies and I had worked in a couple of startups and done pretty well, so, we kind of started on the journey on that project we did together at Sloan. What was your pitch even like?

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