Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

In the 5+ years since CLF was founded, we’ve seen firsthand that these partnerships can produce new ideas, new opportunities, and new shifts in culture faster than operating in silos. Executives could be preparing for a big board meeting, quarterly earnings calls, or managing very large teams.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown. Edtech valuations aren’t skyrocketing, but investors see more exit opportunities.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

Since there''s no way to both make yourself accessible and not get a fire hose of inbound, most of the pitches you''re going to have are from perfectly nice, smart people who have perfectly horrific, unworkable ideas. 2) People pitch you. Even the best and most active board members can still feel pretty helpless.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners. They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Braid, a group-financing platform, is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

COVID-19 has spotlighted many of the weakest points in our transportation system, but some of the rapid shifts in consumer behavior are creating opportunities for tech once considered fanciful, like sidewalk delivery robots and eVTOLs (electric vertical and takeoff vehicles). Inside Rover and MoneyLion’s SPAC-led public debuts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

If you read eBoys or Done Deals or Creative Capital, you’ll get a sense of the early days of the venture industry. It started out with six men at a famous restaurant in San Francisco hearing pitches over lunch. None of them could afford to lead the entire round, so they would syndicate and take turns on the board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

With never-ending problems, especially in the current bear market, these events highlight the need for founders to prioritize their mental health and for investors and boards to help them seek support when needed. Upadhyay : At the board level, the bar is really low. I think right now, most boards in Africa need not do more harm.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

This annual evaluation is meant to be completed by the CEO, their direct reports and the board members in an anonymous 360 aggregated review. Board members are provided with the timely and accurate information they need to asset the business and help the CEO make informed and balanced decisions. Good news is not exaggerated.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. Words matter, and there isn't anyone out there who doesn't believe that creativity feeds off diversity of ideas, something we can all get behind. What areas are going to change?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. If demonstrating an employer-employee relationship, that usually involves showing that your startup’s board of directors oversees your work and can fire you. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW? Take a listen!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. “The bigger picture is that each of our competitors views the opportunity more narrowly than ultimate.ai Our vision has always been the big picture: Of automation becoming one of the primary means of providing customer service.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Zack is the creative talent. The “team beneath the team&# was as talented as any top team that pitches me startups. I took for granted that having the team mostly on board was enough. But I never gave up. More on that later. I could go on & on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“So it’s like building an advisory board for yourself.” And we had fairly little exposure to opportunity. “What we’re building is really the phone book of the future,” says Orlic, slotting his elevator pitch into our ~30-minute phone conversation. This is short-form, topic-specific audio.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For some early use cases, creativity > correctness Hallucinations are a known aspect of today’s LLMs, but for some use cases, the ability to make things up is a feature rather than a bug. I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. Martin Casado, a16z 3.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. Some examples of VCs originating in creative ways: Pioneer runs an extremely open contest focused on lowering the bar to raising capital for “scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and civic activists.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The mission is the elevator pitch. I just want to let you know and give you the opportunity to let me know if there’s any flags that you want to tell me about right now.” I’ve been on the board of Commit Foundation now for probably about 7 or 8 years. We do back channels. How is that set up?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Creativity is at the heart of everything they do. After getting to know Ben from the tech community, he pitched me his concept for a CPG food company. They said they trusted me and that they signed up for great opportunities in great startups, not just specifically tech. Just face + cup. That's Ample Hills.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 16, 2022

I wanted a writer role but the only thing they had was a business role aimed at trying to think of creative ways for the Huffington Post to make money outside of traditional means. It’s crazy because if you think of the pitch back then (“we want to put all digital content on chain”) it sounds like a billion dollar idea today.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

Kevin Hale [03:01] – That’s when we realized there’s this huge opportunity because investors they they make money off of having an information edge, right? ” A good example of this would be if you are, so as a VC somebody comes in and pitches you. Bird comes in and pitches you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. You’re on stage!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

” For this new survey, we heard from 10 VCs — nine who invest in media startups, plus a tenth who’s seeing plenty of media pitches and was happy to share her thoughts. will force downward subscription pricing adjustments across the board and streaming platforms will need to revisit advertising as a revenue stream.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’d be hard-pressed to imagine that any other of these companies and their spaces is an absolutely wonderful place to work for Black employees, free of structural bias, and that they feel like they have the growth opportunities they want. I don’t think Audrey was particularly well supported by her high-profile board members.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Generating content for newsletters month after month can prove challenging for even the most seasoned (and creative) marketer. . Email can be a valuable distribution channel for B2B announcements in the same way as posting on job boards or Linkedin. . New training opportunities. One of the best parts about email newsletters?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. What is the biggest opportunity for proptech founders?

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