Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well. I knew what this meant. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? the link is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They did it by creating a blog, discussion board and hub for eCommerce advice and information. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps? Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Blog on that topic. Some search.

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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. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard. This has been updated.).

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds can be referred to as Uber for freelance marketing services. 150Birds help startups and small businesses to: Get guidance to develop suitable marketing strategies, Get professional marketing services on-demand on a simple fixed monthly price, and Pay expert’s charges only when experts work. The Concept. The Offering.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Over the past six years, and with great help, I’ve developed the Keep It Super Simple (KISS) Canvas to help innovators find and mitigate some of their biggest risks, from ideation to scaling. A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution. How is the Simple?

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee.

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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. is gearing up for fresh growth — saying it’s expecting major developments next year. Overall, he says it’s tripled ARR over the last 12 months (albeit, it was the same growth story last year too). Now ultimate.ai

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). We talked with lawyers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The infrastructure groundwork laid by modern developer platforms over the past decade and the upcoming catalysts in the real-time payments world, with the launch of FedNow, could spark much faster adoption. How do you prefer to receive pitches? What are you most excited about in the fintech space? What do you feel might be overhyped?

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StartupNation

JUNE 7, 2021

It may seem counterintuitive to think of your exit strategy in the early stages of starting and running your business, as there is much to do as a young company — product development, go-to market strategy, hiring, etc. Today, I am an angel investor as well as a board member and advisor to early-stage companies. Key takeaways.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Branded’s pitch is that it can use that expertise in building online businesses to grow its stable of sellers and brands better than they might be able to do on their own. “We he left almost exactly a year ago, after the fund had started to come under a lot of scrutiny ).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Lead generation is a critical cornerstone in the world of sales — in a seemingly infinite sea of potential customers, you need to know who wants to buy, or who might buy, what you are selling so that you can focus your pitches (and your time and energy) in a more focused way. He’s also joining Qualified’s board with this round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Plenty of startups think they can put a dent in this world, and every year, I see dozens of pitches for companies that are “making speakers better” in various ways. Armed with a handful of patents and some cool reference speakers (i.e. And every year, it falls flat. Image Credits: Haje Kamps for a Bolt teardown ).

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Zeisser is also joining the board.). She said they thus refer to the category with a distinct term: “experience commerce.” The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

Assistance in business development, marketing, risk management and governance. The hedge fund world has a much more developed seeding ecosystem, so I’m using that asset class as a source of benchmark data. Disclosures: Blue Future Partners is a member of the LP Advisory Board of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The problem of less research into women’s health issues does also mean that femtech startups can have a lot of ground to cover to live up to enticing pitches of ‘demystifying’ the female body, as Evvy couches it. As with many such femtech startups, Evvy is targeting the women’s health data gap.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

To help our portfolio CEOs, we have developed the following evaluation criteria. This annual evaluation is meant to be completed by the CEO, their direct reports and the board members in an anonymous 360 aggregated review. Our CEO can deliver a convincing investor pitch deck and plan. Good news is not exaggerated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

I was cognizant that women only received less than 1% of venture funding globally, but that wasn’t at the forefront of my mind as I started my journey or as I pitched to VCs or angels. Okra simply enables developers and businesses to build personalized digital financial service products. as yesterday! Fara Ashiru Jituboh, CEO, Okra.

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Y Combinator

MAY 30, 2024

So they built a better solution — one that handled the un-fun bits of managing in-app subscriptions, helped with data analytics, and let app developers focus more time and energy on the stuff they wanted to make. RevenueCat is an SDK and an API that helps developers add in-app subscriptions to their apps and run their businesses.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . For your reference, here is our current deck (link).” Are they litigious?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

Assistance in business development, marketing, risk management and governance. The hedge fund world has a much more developed seeding ecosystem, so I’m using that asset class as a source of benchmark data. Disclosures: Blue Future Partners is a member of the LP Advisory Board of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner.

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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. It’s about taking active responsibility for developing yourself and the other team members. High performing teams have more fun!

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . For your reference, here is our current deck (link).” Are they litigious?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. And then we do score ourselves with the board, but also with the company. ” That’s reported to the board. I do my own reference calls.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

The leadership team at any given company should spend a disproportionate amount of time on setting strategy, allocating resources, and developing roadmaps. Leaders then need to allocate resources and develop the roadmap to ensure the most efficient path to delivering on this strategy. Anyone could pitch an idea to the executive team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Helm.ai, a startup developing software designed for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and robotics, is one of them. board of directors as part of this financing. developed software that can understand sensor data as well as a human — a goal not unlike others in the field. Its approach is the noteworthy part.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. That’s an awesome suggestion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

Take Resumes with a Grain of Salt—Hire for Attitude and Train for Skills Any company can offer the greatest product or service in the world, but it can only be executed by having the right people on board. When hiring, I take resumes with a grain of salt, as I do references, too. Advertising = telling people how good you are.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The mission is the elevator pitch. And you just continue to see how that social dynamic develops. And then I also think with references, founders are typically showing up with their 5 to 7 reference questions. What are the tips that you have for reference processing both on the front door and the back channel references?

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