Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

I have no opportunity to win even the local competition.” However, I met and pitched my business to people that I follow on social media as business role models. But at the same time, I miss the opportunity of getting to know them in the real world. I thought, “Meh. So, I skipped it. Entrepreneur first, business after.”

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Which is why I''m sure the dude who picked apart the physics of the latest round of UBeam will undoubtedly get eviscerated in the tweet and blog world. ".Here’s I just respectfully don''t see the same opportunity as her investors do, and I reserve the right to be 100% wrong. Here’s the problem. We all have.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Video pitching. I see an uptick in pitching via pre-recorded video. We used Loom to pre-record our pitch and share it with potential investors. It’s a great way to personalize a pitch deck and share it with interested parties. Opportunity for startups. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As the captain of your ship, you’ll navigate a vast sea of opportunities. Smaller businesses may be attracted to blogs, social media posts, and email marketing. and more articles from the EO blog. The post Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees first appeared on The EO Blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2024

These EOers work with the students to refine their pitches and provide insights and tips to help them succeed in the high-level competition. Sure, it is an opportunity to give back, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. In addition, EO members volunteer as GSEA coaches to mentor the global semi-finalist representing their region.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. Experienced entrepreneurs and VCs share what they know on their blogs, and anyone can get thoughtful answers to tough questions on Quora. Why isn't it growing its own yet?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

I recall the day before my IPO roadshow — how nervous I was — and how I presented my pitch deck to my Forum, and they shared valuable insights and honest feedback. EO exists to move the world forward by unlocking the full potential of entrepreneurs like me, and I’m grateful for that opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. If you haven’t read the post the thesis was that I care way more about watching the trajectory of your performance as a team (or individual) than I do about how good you “pitch” on the first day you come to see me.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. A version of this article originally appeared on Kym Huynh’s blog.

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JUNE 9, 2020

If you’re a white professional in venture, you might feel uncomfortable tweeting or blogging about race. If you're in a more privileged position with lots of VC connections to pitch, you’ll either do one of the following things: You'll come right back at me, tell me why and how I'm wrong—because at this point you have nothing to lose.

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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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JUNE 17, 2024

Founders need to shift their thinking to an assumption of understanding—that investors who see thousands of pitches per year probably do understand what a founder is doing the vast majority of the time, and have simply decided that the risk/reward for investing in their company simply isn’t as good of a deal as others they’re currently looking at.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

It’s amazingly helpful to share challenges, opportunities, and experiences with people who understand what I deal with daily as a business owner. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. It is also a good opportunity for CEO’s to mingle with VC’s who might lead future rounds of fundraising. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs. What are the most common mistakes in first pitch?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. EO offers great opportunity, education and tools to facilitate this, and create Instimacy (=instant intimacy) in business conversations. . The post Together We Grow: 11 Expert tips for scaling a SaaS business appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2019

Write blog content, including for social media platforms like LinkedIn. You need not only a few focused hours to craft the article, but you’ll need the bandwidth to pitch ideas to editors and follow up on queries. A good ghostwriter comes up with content ideas , pitches to editors, and writes top-quality content.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Yet many would-be entrepreneurs feel that they don’t have enough access to investors and that the opportunity to present to a group will help them short circuit the fund raising process. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The news blogs will cover the what, how and how much but I want to focus on the “why” and try to be instructive of what I think makes for a great A-round startup. When a founder is “opportunity driven” it’s too easy to quit at the first bump in the road. Truly, in many ways, my concern was the inverse of normal business pitches.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They typically don’t have the benefit of the specialized software and tech to help make everything run smoother, but that’s where Vori saw an opportunity. The company agreed to share the pitch deck it used to raise a $10 million Series A so I can take a closer look. (It

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Monthly sessions share best practices, resources and cover everything from marketing, presentations, ghostwriting, publishing tips, pitching–any and everything related to promoting authors and speakers. Seeing the dramatic needs of students but not being able to provide services in-person, I realized a unique opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

I often hear pitches and think to myself, “that sounds plausible” but I nearly always start with the position that I’m not sure. I love the intellectual challenge of trying to figure out what hypothesis I think holds for each opportunity. It’s ok for us not to be the experts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. And don’t miss Eden’s follow-up post for EO Blog, How to Stay Ahead of Crisis PR with ChatGPT. Don’t miss his follow-up post on EO Blog, Why It’s Crucial to Go All In On Yourself As an Entrepreneur. Posts: A Lookback at 2023 first appeared on The EO Blog.

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MAY 19, 2011

My job basically revolves around strangers and technology--letting people I've never met that wind up in my inbox come into my office to pitch. They don't really tweet or blog, but Facebook--the social network meant to connect you with people you already know--is the standard. I grew up in Brooklyn.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

My husband and I are also pitching a second Weird Homes Tour book with all of the cities in it. But, I knew I’d be opening a second location the following year, so I used this opportunity to build the desk-less front desk! Growth naturally comes with obstacles and opportunities. What’s next? Can you share any specifics?

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APRIL 29, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with an entrepreneur last week about how he decided which VCs he was going to pitch. No matter how much I or any of the team here at First Round made themselves accessable through Office Hours, LinkedIn, Twitter, speaking, blogging, etc., I try and respond to pitches right away. If I don't.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Did you conduct any practice sessions?

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Do something unique to get customer attention.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Through a series of short, 5-minute one-on-one meetings, you will have the opportunity to pitch your idea, listen to others' pitches, and connect with potential co-founders who share your vision and values. Our AI-powered matchmaking algorithm will help you find the perfect partner to take your startup to the next level.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Who was willing to jump on a plan on a Sunday morning with a hang-over to make sure they were there the night before an important biz dev pitch on a Monday morning. So I patiently waiting until there was a good opportunity to bring Stuart on board and took the opportunity when it presented itself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2016

There are a number of podcasts aimed at entrepreneurship – Forbes recommended twelve in this article , including StartUp and the Pitch – but we’ve also found career inspiration in other programming that’s not specifically geared toward business. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

As a serial technical founder, I often get approached for co-founder opportunities. Yet they are a dime a dozen when compared with the number of talented technologists who have the skills to build and ship a product and who can essentially choose their opportunities as they wish. Outline what is the problem, solution and the market.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 23, 2020

Or, do you have additional advice for founders who pitch to your group? I answer more questions and provide more coaching about investor pitches than anything else. The first step in that process is a pitch, and getting it right is essential to the future of your business. New opportunities? If not now, eventually.

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