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What next for founders seeking their next adventure: Launch, Get a Job, Invest, Consult?

David Teten VC

Consulting. If you love the team and traction, you can pitch them to join them as an advisor or cofounder. . Consulting. The simplest way to earn some income while you research your next move is to do some part-time consulting. Some paths to win consulting work: Join the major expert networks (e.g.,

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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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How to Adapt Your Pitch for Your C-Suite Executive Targets

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. My team members call it the Pitch Perfect experience.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Let’s say that your ideal clients are CEOs of mid-market companies that need your consulting services. Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. In other words, where do they congregate, what do they read, and what are their interests? None in your area?

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Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million

TechCrunch

The product turns what used to be a manual process that involved outside consultants and roughly 150 hours of work into a job that can be done in 30 minutes, according to the cove.tool. Companies like Procore have become billion-dollar businesses on the back of their pitch to simplify the construction management process.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Board minutes & board decks Board minutes are often too general and don’t significantly aid in due diligence.

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