TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community. This will add to the revenue base when it’s completed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They take on board seats and don’t have the bandwidth when you meet with them. So now the week you’re pitching them, they feel like the pace is too high, so the bar is now higher than it was a week ago. Shaun Maguire: If someone is going to join the board of your company, it’s a long-term partnership. They feel too busy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

.” While Sylvera’s ratings framework is proprietary, the startup says it’s committed to publishing details of how it makes project assessments to support its goal of becoming a leading trusted source of carbon offsetting data (importantly it does not trade carbon offsets itself to avoid direct conflicts).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. These can be called: Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Board Partners or similar. We also take input from our board partners and from our non-partner investment staff. This is Sales 101.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions. Although the exemptions remain complex, the changes provide incremental improvement to the existing framework. Almost all of the new rules should become effective early next year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your day-to-day strategic decisions and your sales pitch are two very different things. How to fix it: Build a framework to collect feedback from users, customers, and the team. They not only had a good product, they likely had help and a robust strategic framework to go to market. from an advisor or board of directors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. The new framework benefits consumers and sellers, but for the region’s startups, “it opens the door to a plethora of opportunities and new business models, from payments to credit.” How to establish a health tech startup advisory board. Walter Thompson.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Experts can turn into consultants, board members, interim execs, etc., Fundraising. Recruiting. Minimal cost. . Extends network dramatically.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Among them is Minerva Lithium , a University of North Carolina at Greensboro spinoff that has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel and extracts critical materials from brine in just three days. Dawood says Minerva has already acquired plenty of potential partners to come on board.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Their main role in the Dream Team framework is to set a clear and compelling strategy, drive alignment, and liberally share context. One cannot exist without the other in this framework. There are several frameworks that can help define and capture company strategy. Anyone could pitch an idea to the executive team.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Experts can turn into consultants, board members, interim execs, etc., Fundraising. Recruiting. Minimal cost. . Extends network dramatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. One was the hardest working guy on our board and the biggest mensch. I will be on your board but don’t ask me for anything.&# He literally said it that bluntly.

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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. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. The white board is a great way to make this happen.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Here’s what I recommend sharing with the stake investor as the possible “gives” in your sales pitch: Economic benefits: typically lower carry, possibly lower management fee and/or a stake in the GP’s economics. Thanks to Dave McClure for feedback.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 15, 2013

Consultants scrutinize the inner-workings of companies daily and create simple frameworks for explaining their operations. So I bugged a handful of friends with experience at the Big 3 consulting firms for their most used frameworks. The Three Horizons helps to think through that sequencing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed. If you’re prioritizing a platform buildout for your firm, consider using the framework he’s outlined.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Here’s what I recommend sharing with the stake investor as the possible “gives” in your sales pitch: Economic benefits: typically lower carry, possibly lower management fee and/or a stake in the GP’s economics. Thanks to Dave McClure for feedback.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. The mission is the elevator pitch. ” And so that framework helps think that through before you start talking to folks, which I think is very smart. I’ve been on the board of Commit Foundation now for probably about 7 or 8 years.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. That said, the quick and dirty approach to using technology for better board stewardship is just to use existing file sharing systems (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc.)

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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.

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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. That said, the quick and dirty approach to using technology for better board stewardship is just to use existing file sharing systems (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc.)

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then we do score ourselves with the board, but also with the company. ” That’s reported to the board. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. If you’re really not explicit about why, and you’re not creating some frameworks like Google did at the time to help explain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck. With that ethos in mind, Lucas Matney interviewed Pilot CEO Waseem Daher to deconstruct the pitch deck that helped his company land a $60M Series C round. ” Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. You have to go back to the drawing board and understand, why are people calling me, right? And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.” People don’t know about it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But if you are not already using it, chances are that you may be getting pitched a service using its technology, or will be soon. He’s also a longstanding investor and board member at a range of major next-generation communications vendors.). Hinkle is joining Plume’s board with this round.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. Deep research and quantitative frameworks are sorely lacking in today’s short attention span news approach. I could hardly wait to dive in and see the approach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Yes, Chief.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Since Stilt has state lending licenses and an existing compliance framework, it says it is able to help companies develop their own credit offerings while it manages “all the complexity of origination, payments and credit reporting” for them. 10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Unearthly Materials claimed to have big-name investors , but they weren’t all on board, Tim reports over on TC+. Here’s how they raised : Haje is back with another Pitch Deck Teardown: StudentFinance’s $41 million Series A deck. it never should’ve come to a staff furlough , however, Aria writes. Alex and Anna wonder.

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