Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Chronotype is the scientific term for what we commonly refer to as an internal clock. The exercise starts with "Um…" and ends with a pitch for a piece I'm excited to write and not embarrassed to send to my editors. Researching: Everything I write requires some form of research. Sometimes, it's just SEO research.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Whether you're drafting a press release, writing a briefing doc, refining a pitch, checking for brand risk, or just cleaning up grammar, these bots help you move quickly and confidently. Each chatbot is customizable to your needs, so you can feed it your own documentation to tailor the output even more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

Most innovation models refer to the final stage of the process as “execution” or “implementation”–making it sound very straightforward. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch. The post How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’ appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The meetings included co-working spaces, accelerators, investor groups, tech giants, University startup hubs, maker groups, and pitch events. They collaborate and refer to those that play their specific role. People here are incredibly willing to help, to introduce and refer. Aussie startups can and should plug in.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. You can try to convince them of your “pay no more once you’ve signed up&# model but they fall for the other guy’s pitch every time.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. You can try to convince them of your “pay no more once you’ve signed up&# model but they fall for the other guy’s pitch every time.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

I was in the room at Microsoft's Copilot launch event in New York City in 2023, where Satya Nadella pitched a vision of Copilot across all Microsoft's apps and services. Copilot can see the entire spreadsheet, so it can provide an answer with reference to the larger context of the function.

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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. At the very least, answer ALL the profile questions, include your company’s logo, create a two-minute elevator pitch video and upload your presentation deck.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

Which, as it turns out is a highly underrated thing (more on that in another blog post). During the first week of that class, we all had to do a short pitch of a startup idea and convince our classmates to join our “startup”. I pitched a startup called “HubSpot”, which ended up being one of the ideas chosen. Or references.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

To increase the chances of subscribers referring you to others, make sure the process takes no longer than 25 seconds. Remind readers at the end of each issue that they can refer others. Include a short sentence in the intro to your newsletter telling people being referred where they can subscribe.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds can be referred to as Uber for freelance marketing services. Explain your offering to over thousands of potential investors, customers, and top blogs. Startup reviews are custom written posts by our experienced team who’ll work closely with your team to create the best pitch possible. The Concept.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. They share their learnings on flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Jamie Finney. Contributor.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve unapologetically hyper-focused this shopping solution for women, as informed and directed by my personal experience and the experiences of my users as women, moms, and what I refer to as “household procurement specialists.” Practice in pitching and answering tough questions has prepared us to begin raising funding.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa. Each tweet storm or blog post about City A vs B, “Top 10 Hottest Places to Start a Startup”, “Is Boise the New Austin?” Endless anti-union tantrums, delivered with the confidence that only a VC who had a single personal interaction with a union 7 years ago could muster.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Matthew Ramirez , CEO, Rephrasely You Stand Out Amongst Competitors A brand blog is essential in content marketing. Some terms may not be recognized by a new audience, and you can use your blog to inform them on the topic. In doing so, readers will gravitate to the blog while the website increases its domain rating.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

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. Later, Nicholas refers to SBIR as a program that encouraged “technology prototyping.” government’s support of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Permalink.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

When hiring, I take resumes with a grain of salt, as I do references, too. For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows. In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. We had a whole bunch of these funny meetings where we’re trying to get in front of them to pitch them on a product and they’re happy to take the meeting because they want to hear about what we do. Bird comes in and pitches you. 11:30 – Their first customers.

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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. Demo Day pitch.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

I even started referring to him as a podhead. 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. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Once you fill this out… Step 4: Meet to discuss answers and conduct reference checks Set up an hour or two to sit down and review each other’s answers in person or via a conference call. At the end of the meeting, ask for one or two work-related references (i.e., For instance, I would ask references questions like: 1.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution. When it comes time to craft a pitch for funders, the KISS Canvas covers 80% of a typical Pitch Deck by telling the very information investors want to know, in the order they generally want to hear it.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

I even started referring to him as a podhead. 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. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Writing blog posts, networking and participating in community business activities can result in investors going after entrepreneurs instead. The list should include around 30 to 50 names, which you can put into a spreadsheet with other relevant information for easy reference. Perfect your pitch. Self-promotion also helps.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It can be referred to as your elevator pitch. The post Proven Strategies for Brainstorming Business Names appeared first on THE BLOG. While we understand that these are actually slightly different concepts, this statement provides condensed direction. It should inform people what unique benefit your provide to your customers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This makes Zola’s copy feel more like a personal conversation than if it were to refer more broadly to brides and grooms in the third person. Examples help your prospect understand how your product fits into their world — notice how the examples in the last two bullet points provide a detailed point of reference for how to apply our tips.

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Feedough

APRIL 6, 2021

It refers to marketing and advertising products in a less obvious manner, using unconventional tactics. Ad Spies: Brands usually pay influencers to surreptitiously pitch its products to their followers without showing that it’s a paid gig. The blog was very well received by the public and gained an enormous following.

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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. Let’s start with the tools we used at Supademo: Canva and Journey.io

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

American Express has a branded blog, Business Class , that publishes content to help small and medium business owners. " But the Business Class blog also includes brand journalism content as a podcast, "The Next Chapter," which is a series of interviews with outside experts and successful business owners.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We are setting up the following process: every time a company mails us their pitch or further information, we send to a special email, e.g., inbound(@)versatilevc.com. It’s also helpful for identifying people with whom we can do reference checking. We tag each email appropriately: NNTR=No Need to Respond. RRM=Draft a response for me.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Once you’ve reached out, pitch them on why they should support your launch! For the next 14 days, link this “Coming Soon” page on your: Email signatures Websites header Blog posts callouts Image: Author As visitors subscribe to be notified, you will dramatically increase surface area for getting their attention on launch day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

In fact, I wrote a previous blog post on “ Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel.” You don’t need everyone, you just need a few core believers and having a hard “why buy me” pitch makes it easier to find and convert those leads. it’s not just startups who do it. We all do it on this side of the table too.

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