Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2021

There’s a trend in pitch decks and startup pitches I’ve been watching - the commingling of metrics definitions, especially ARR. Management teams and VCs talk multiples in partner meeting presentations, term sheet negotiations, and board room conversations. Over time, the definition of ARR has slackened.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s not actually surprising that investors bought into it, considering that for a long time, VCs have focused on one particular archtype of leader as being more worthy of venture investment than others—the bold, confident visionary who will talk big in the pitch meeting. that same founder will give the most unequivocal, most confident “Yes!”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Six active biotech investors we surveyed recently told us that the macro environment has definitely had a big impact on deal flow, valuations and M&A in biotech. “The ubiquity of AI in pitches that I see is striking,” Decisive Point health and human performance principal James Coates told TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. Poorly implemented this category was the definition of shelfware. Make sure your board challenges you enough about long-term vision & innovation. Your board likely won’t unless you have visionaries who are also egg breakers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. 50% of these meetings led to pitches to individual partners. About 30% of partner pitches led to full partnership pitches. I suggest use the Founder Institute Mad Libs elevator pitch.

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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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Y Combinator

MARCH 6, 2024

” Wei and her team eventually decided to build a job board just for nurses — and it was there she discovered a deep-rooted problem she could solve. ” Seven months pregnant at the time, Wei was Ubering from facility to facility to pitch the concept of Clipboard Health. I truly believe that.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

It will definitely happen for some venture funds, but the question is how widespread it will be,” states Martino. Founders have grown accustomed to supervoting stock structures as VCs agree to loosen terms to get a stake in the funding event, essentially giving these founders authority over their own boards. “I

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

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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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

When I am pitching a new idea I don’t really want the benefit of the doubt. As a first time ceo at Klout I would often look at my board and think “these people were involved in some of the most important companies in our industry, I should probably listen to them”. That’s definitely not their fault. No one knows anything.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

We kicked off a series of pitch deck teardowns, and we are looking for startups that want to have their pitch decks reviewed. Judge sides with Elon Musk : He is probably going to win with the Twitter deal, but he can definitely put a checkmark in the “win” category here. Get involved! Oh Snap! :

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

But climate change is definitely exacerbating it big time,” she said. Plus, having Hunt on board with his decades of experience didn’t hurt when it came time to pitch them. . “I quickly realized this is a climate-related issue,” Wolff said.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I now realize a better approach is to take the time to set the scope as well as some parameters and definitions. Just because you accelerate businesses, that doesn’t make you an accelerator in our definition,” said Weissmann. “In Take the time to thoughtfully design your approach (definition, target group, scope & method).

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AUGUST 8, 2011

So how can a relatively junior VC hope to add any value to an investment and on a board--and is it enough value that you should have one on your board? Facing live pitching is a new thing, but that's no excuse for not having an approach to hitting and studying up to face this particular pitcher. 3) Network, network, network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Rethinking growth targets, in light of the rising cost of capital, to focus more on efficiency in this environment is a consistent thread in board meetings these days. How do you prefer to receive pitches? What’s the most important thing a founder should know before they get on a call with you?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Unless you’re a former CIO who already has a clear understanding of the decision-making process, you can only fall back on basic best practices that usually result in a generic sales pitch: “How do you do, fellow CIOs?” So that definitely stretched me in many ways.” Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Zeisser is also joining the board.). The returns are what have made the pitch compelling to these companies: Easol claims that for an event with a $2 million turnover, using Easol’s software instead of a mix of third-party tools works out to more than $80,000 of savings annually. investments at Alibaba.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The pitch is that the fleet should see a reduction in accidents and can then take that data to insurance companies to negotiate better claims. . Investing in autonomous driving is definitely a possibility, but it’s not our focus right now,” said Agrawal. Traffic management platform NoTraffic raises $17.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

bang on the windows of a board meeting recently and stick his tongue out at all of us. They pitched on a Wednesday. In the most perfect sense of the definition. Heck, I even had Robert Downey, Jr. And Tasha never screamed before? We’re in LA. They’re only people. Turns out Punky was a childhood hero for Tasha.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. Just ask the people who poured money into once “hot&# companies like RazorGator or Friendster. So being buddies with “all the right people&# clearly isn’t enough to be successful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it definitely caught my attention for a few reasons. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member. Digital mortgage platform Blend said last week its slashing its U.S. ” In other news. .”

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MAY 27, 2010

Sometimes it pays to jump on board before a lot of big questions have been answered—simply because you can feel the market starting to notice it and create mindshare momentum. I remember one day last summer when Dennis Crowley and I both went to pitch the same biz dev partner—me with Path 101 and him with Foursquare.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder. I would control all the board seats and voting power, but you’ve got this fancy title you can put on your LinkedIn and use when you speak at conferences later after we IPO. Technically, it’s a title.

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MAY 27, 2010

Sometimes it pays to jump on board before a lot of big questions have been answered—simply because you can feel the market starting to notice it and create mindshare momentum. I remember one day last summer when Dennis Crowley and I both went to pitch the same biz dev partner—me with Path 101 and him with Foursquare. Maybe… maybe not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

I’ve heard more than one tech person complain about how a lot of what is pitched and peddled as AI is not really that. Others are using what others may call AI but in the definition of what AI actually is, it is not.” A lot of that, however, can be misleading.

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APRIL 29, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with an entrepreneur last week about how he decided which VCs he was going to pitch. I try and respond to pitches right away. Generally, you want an intro to anyone who can lead a deal--who sits on boards and can be point on an investment. If I don't. In person time is precious.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

“If you believe VR and immersive computing is the future — whether for consumer or business use cases — Activision helps Microsoft build a flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board to this future.”. Why Microsoft’s $2T+ market cap makes its $68B Activision buy a cheap bet.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“So it’s like building an advisory board for yourself.” “What we’re building is really the phone book of the future,” says Orlic, slotting his elevator pitch into our ~30-minute phone conversation. So we’re definitely a part of that wave.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Let’s kick this off by reminding you there’s only 5 days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt passes ! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 No one likes a cheater : Definitely not Russian game developer Battlestate Games, which banned and doxed 6,700 cheaters from its Escape from Tarkov game. Lorenzo has more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Take a densely packed forest, add a steep pitch, and throw in a couple feet of fresh snow, and I’m in heaven. So he said he plans to live in the present, riding this potentially short-term wave of loose monetary policy and racking up some runs on the board. One way I achieve mental clarity and live in the present is through skiing.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

The definition of “team” in this case is a group created by a leader to achieve a specific goal. The definition of expert varies by discipline, but here’s a good pressure test: Skills: Do they have the skills to independently make judgment calls? Anyone could pitch an idea to the executive team. What is a “Dream Team”?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I guess if you do more than one, I guess by definition, that’s serial. I came from a board meeting to here. I was saying to this CEO at the board meeting, I said, “I don’t know, I just have this blind belief that you guys are going to create an enormous success. ” I said, “Why? 100 billion idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When we invest they are often the company counsel so we see them at board meetings. does that qualify for the discount on my last engagement with you guys ] I like the WYSIWYG approach to working with lawyers – I don’t want the partners pitching the work and it gets completed behind the scenese by somebody I’ve never met.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

For example, for me, I didn’t just put in “e-mail time”, I divided up the amount of time I spend responding to entrepreneur pitches in e-mail vs other types of e-mail, which I labeled “correspondence”. I wanted to keep an eye on the overall work hour tally because I definitely have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2013

After the investment closed, the founders wanted to renege on that part of the agreement , but the board asked the duo to meet some of the valley’s top CEOs. By definition, these roles are management roles, not individual contributor roles so the tactical tests aren’t the right ones. Eventually, they found and hired Eric.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Mosaic) to build it for them, or fine tune a foundation model – and building your own LLM is not easy One of the things that’s happened in the brains of the CEOs and the boards is that they realize: maybe I can beat my competition. AI was, and still is to some extent, very young and is definitely moving very fast.

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