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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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Justworks’ Series B pitch deck may be the most wonderfully simple deck I’ve ever seen

TechCrunch

Harris took a seat on the board. On Extra Crunch Live , Harris and Justworks CEO Isaac Oates sat down to talk through how they resolve disagreements, why Oates never changed what must be one of the most simple pitch decks I’ve ever seen in my life, and how founders should think about pricing their products. Episode breakdown.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it. Board minutes & board decks Board minutes are often too general and don’t significantly aid in due diligence.

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Here’s what you’ll learn at TechCrunch Early Stage in San Francisco this April

TechCrunch

Sequoia’s Jess Lee will talk you through how to get that first investor on board, which will more often than not get other investors excited about the prospect of working with you. Pitch Deck Teardown. An enticing pitch is foundational to a startup’s chance of successful fundraising. Wedge to TAM.

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The Problem with Startup Advice

This is going to be BIG.

VCs construct stories in their head as to why they invested in this or that, and much of it is based on prior experience, but they're often awful at articulating the real reasons. So much of this is gut feel with a thin later of strategy retrofitted to seem more than random. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more

TechCrunch

Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. ” From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. 4 strategies for deep tech companies recruiting top growth marketers. Fifteen U.S.-based

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work.