Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton. Viewed from the outside, board selection and corporate governance can seem like a bit of a black box — particularly at a startup. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. With Africa being the most expensive region to send money to, with 10.6%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I was mostly pitching white male VCs. Thirty that I pitched were ethnic minorities and I received five term sheets, or a success rate of 17%.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. “We have some very experienced people in our advisory board who are really active in the team. And every year, it falls flat.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment.

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