This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. Would we pitch Series A players? It's too easy to think that if you tilt the pitch just a little one way or the other, that's going to make the difference, but that's Monday morning quarterbacking. Did that seed make this round our Series A? Who cares what we called it?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. Who will you be pitching to? The pitch-off will consist of three startup companies presenting for four seconds on the virtual stage, in front of the entire TC Sessions audience and our expert panel of judges.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. PlayPrint , founded by Kevin Zhang and Syed Bokhari (Centre County): Offering innovative, eco-friendly alternatives to children’s toys, PlayPrint focuses on creativity, educational value, and sustainability.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 24, 2021

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In addition to the financing, Splice also nabbed Kakul Srivastava, the vice president of Adobe Creative Cloud Experience and Engagement as a director for its board. Splice is also pleased to announce that Kakul Srivastava has joined the company’s board. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. You’re on stage! People are sitting in their chairs for too long – most of them squirming.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It charges $99 for its services of strategic guidance and mediator and $65/hr for every expert that gets on board. While our platform provides consistent, higher-paying work for creative freelancers on teams that they have an affinity toward, our algorithm lets us scale operations. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

At the end of the program, they’ll pitch their business concepts to a panel of judges for a chance to take home up to $15,000 to officially launch their idea. employs the widely recognized Big Five personality traits, Objective Key Results for performance measurement, and a proprietary job board for candidates and recruiters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Participating services include, but are not limited to, YouTube Premium, Dollar Shave Club, Adobe Creative Cloud, Nintendo Online, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Xbox Live, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and DisneyPlus. It was a 48-hour turnaround, and it was the first money we’d ever raised outside of pitch competitions,” he told TechCrunch.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

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. No board seats or advisory roles. Creative Market : Acquired by Adobe. They require a board seat.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you are an entrepreneur, startup founder or business owner wondering how you can best structure your pitch to acquire a VC investment, I offer some insight as to what my own process looks like when selecting a particular company or entrepreneur. Every entrepreneurial leader needs to be able to creatively think outside the box.

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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

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

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. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Public markets fly high. Use cloud foam to dollar sign.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A few months ago, he blasted out cold emails to pitch an intrapreneurship class. At a celebratory dinner with the three founders, they announced they’d decided to give him 10 percent of the company, pitching in 3.33% each. Nayo Partners, her company, provided strategic consulting for founders in creative businesses.

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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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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. PlayPrint , founded by Kevin Zhang and Syed Bokhari (Centre County): Offering innovative, eco-friendly alternatives to children’s toys, PlayPrint focuses on creativity, educational value, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Perfect pitch: All competing startups get weeks of free training with the TC Startup Battlefield training squad. You’ll hone your presentations skills, polish your business model and pitch with cool, calm confidence come game day. Of course, you’ll make your pitch to, and then answer questions from, panels of expert judges.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

” Getting artists back on board with NFTs The first challenge for the startup was bringing musicians onboard to the Remix NFT model. ” Wu and his team instead split up and waited outside, approaching professionals and pitching them directly after the day’s performances had ended. Music was the answer.”

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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. can still offer a compelling sales pitch to businesses with more “consultative” customer support needs, where automation will only be able to play a far more limited role. will do the same for customer service.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“Being able to show that our approach to quantum computing doesn’t require data centres the size of football pitches, or vast CERN-type facilities, was one of the motivations behind our central London location.” “Many quantum computing companies exist today and they are all in R&D mode,” Palles-Dimmock said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. ” From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decks. Inside Rover and MoneyLion’s SPAC-led public debuts. Fifteen U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

By putting some hard (time) limits on usage, Thursday’s pitch is that service scarcity can fix some of the problematic issues of overuse which can plague dating apps — leading to dating indecision and swipe fatigue. And, well, just waste a lot of people’s time. Which can otherwise, at times, feel pretty transactional.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nadia Zaidi , an associate attorney at Alcorn Immigration Law and an expert in immigration law services for startups and creatives, and I recently did a podcast reviewing what to keep in mind when filing for an O-1A visa , EB-1A green card or EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) green card. Take a listen!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Two black entrepreneurs, despite living in segregated America, found ways to exercise their creativity and disrupt their worlds. He gave his elevator pitch and before long found his partner. Not until 1912 would the music that Bolden played be given a name: jazz. What did they share? The barbershop.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Building Strategically with Athletes, Entertainers, and Executives Reaching out to potential strategic investors with significant influence demands creativity and resourcefulness. Executives could be preparing for a big board meeting, quarterly earnings calls, or managing very large teams.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 3, 2022

Led by team leader Rachel Brown and team member Patrick Bruce, OSU’s team Titan Charts pitched their vision to Love’s Cup judges of a HIPAA-secure, cloud-native workflow solution that increase specialty physician referral turnaround time by automating the entire process. February Start.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The most important thing to look for when determining if corporate venture capital is right for your startup is that the firm you are pitching is actually the best fit for the stage of your business. Be Sure You Have Similar Goals and Expectations. Matthew Ramirez , Founder, Paraphrase Tool.

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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. —– TinySeed. “In

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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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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. —– TinySeed. “In

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

If you are a sports fan, you will have regularly heard how important it is to have a team of leaders on the pitch, not just rely on one. Internal stakeholders include other teams or board members. Because there is greater creativity, group think is avoided, and all the different perspectives are aired.

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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. Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue. Grafana’s early pitch deck — 12:00. The pitch deck teardown — 32:00.

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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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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

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. ” 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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