TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Andreata Muforo, partner, TLcom Capital (a generalist fund backing uLesson).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They take on board seats and don’t have the bandwidth when you meet with them. So now the week you’re pitching them, they feel like the pace is too high, so the bar is now higher than it was a week ago. Shaun Maguire: If someone is going to join the board of your company, it’s a long-term partnership. They feel too busy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. These can be called: Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Board Partners or similar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

His story of overcoming child abuse, a missing arm ligament, a decade in the minors and going on to reinvent himself in his mid-30's using a pitch few have mastered is nothing short of inspirational. Oh, did I mention it turns out he's been pitching with a torn abdominal muscle all season? The movie centers around a lawsuit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. A number of firms provide infrastructure for emerging VCs, e.g., Capria , Draper Venture Network , Oper8r , and Recast Capital , and may provide capital or assistance in raising capital. A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital. The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. I wrote the summary notes in this blog post.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

.” Here’s who he interviewed: Clelia Warburg Peters, venture partner, Bain Capital Ventures. Robin Godenrath and Julian Roeoes, partners, Picus Capital. There’s a lot going on: The venture capital market is redlining its engines while public markets remain sympathetic to growing, unprofitable companies.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. A number of firms provide infrastructure for emerging VCs, e.g., Capria , Draper Venture Network , Oper8r , and Recast Capital , and may provide capital or assistance in raising capital. A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s getting more difficult to hire great talent at the growth stages because many companies were expected to go public and get the associated capital infusion from going public. This has more to do with retention issues and less to do with raising new capital. The mission is the elevator pitch. Tell me what the priorities are.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck. With that ethos in mind, Lucas Matney interviewed Pilot CEO Waseem Daher to deconstruct the pitch deck that helped his company land a $60M Series C round. ” Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising. integrated).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most funds raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But if you are not already using it, chances are that you may be getting pitched a service using its technology, or will be soon. In the heyday of telecoms capital expenditures, he sold a previous company that he founded, Qtera, a pioneer in long-haul photonic networking solutions, to now-defunct Nortel for $3.2

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. Deep research and quantitative frameworks are sorely lacking in today’s short attention span news approach. I could hardly wait to dive in and see the approach.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

90% of total commerce happens in these small mom and pop stores, and for every small shop that you see there are 99 other people who always wanted to start a store but just never could get capital. Most people do not have access to capital. You have to go back to the drawing board and understand, why are people calling me, right?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

billion pool of capital to work by backing early-stage web3 companies. with Vanessa Larco (NEA), Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bryan Offutt (Index Ventures) and Ulili Onovakpuri (Kapor Capital). Hear from Dixon about how a16z crypto is putting its massive $7.6 with Dylan Field (Figma).

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. And she would later join HubSpot board. I know Shaan, you love frameworks. The Hustle My First Million Episode #197.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The capital raises coincide with the company’s launch of Onbo , which it describes as a “credit-as-a-service” product “that allows any business to build and offer a credit product, without needing a bank sponsor in the background.” It also can provide them with debt capital of up to $1 million. ” Image Credits: Stilt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

“This will mean that SVB Financial can apply, and plans to apply, to the courts to resume activities while finding buyers for its assets, which include going ahead with its plans to sell off SVB Securities and SVB Capital, and more,” Ingrid notes. More that we didn’t ask for : Now U.S. Alex and Anna wonder. You can sign up here.

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