TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Series B of $85 million to take it on with what it believes is a more dynamic approach. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint. The startup has already seen good progress on the latter front.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As the captain of your ship, you’ll navigate a vast sea of opportunities. Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. In the high-stakes adventure of entrepreneurship, the search for your ideal clients and employees can become a thrilling quest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

by Erick Slabaugh, a long-standing EO member in Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” The Origins David Galbenski and I served on the EO Global Board together in 2007.

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Gust

DECEMBER 3, 2011

And I don’t mean because they lend a credible name to an investor pitch: way too many entrepreneurs look at names on Advisory Board as just a way to expedite a raise. If that’s all you really expect of the Board, you’re cheating yourself as well as the investors before whom you dangled the names. Not really.

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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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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

Provocation-based selling turns these challenges into opportunities. Identify a problem that resonates with the decision-maker at your target organization Moore recommends that you put yourself in the shoes of the CEO or Board of Directors. But challenges create opportunities. What keeps them up at night?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Even the most experienced angel investors and VCs can overlook red flags that are not immediately apparent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. “It I also understand the immediate opportunity to further expand the credit market informed by my board role at FICO.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

Since April coincides with the start of major league baseball season, Dave saw the opportunity to coordinate two passions: He would leverage his lifelong love for baseball and his purpose of bringing attention to living organ donation by partnering with major league baseball teams.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Early-stage founders, a shipload of opportunity is about to set sail and you don’t want to miss the boat. And every exhibiting startup also gets two minutes to pitch live during a breakout session. Exposure, practice and invaluable feedback from the pitch-savvy TC crew — jump on board that opportunity.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Opportunity sizing. Qualifications and roles of the top three executives and top three on your Board of Advisors. The CEO should give the pitch, and prepare by playing “presidential debates” – asking your team to be the opponents, and check you on timing. Executive team.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Surrounding yourself with diverse teams means being exposed to a lot of different perspectives and creates learning opportunities not possible when everyone you deal with professionally looks and acts like you do. I will back a wide variety of types of companies—everything from The Wing to Imagen.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

In the 5+ years since CLF was founded, we’ve seen firsthand that these partnerships can produce new ideas, new opportunities, and new shifts in culture faster than operating in silos. Executives could be preparing for a big board meeting, quarterly earnings calls, or managing very large teams.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

Raising early money this way provides some obvious benefits: For example, “they typically don’t come with any control or board seats.” Bottom line: If your company is on the cusp of an opportunity, convertible note financing could be a way forward, but only if you have a realistic valuation and a plan to reach it. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Welcome to our 40th Pitch Deck Teardown! Breakdown of the pitch deck teardowns to date. Image Credits: TechCrunch / Haje Kamps We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Goodness, time flies. The company raised $550,000 at a $3.6

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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. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown. Edtech valuations aren’t skyrocketing, but investors see more exit opportunities.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2014

These are things that other VCs think about, but founders who come to pitch don''t think about too much. One of the reasons why I''m announcing at all is because I realized that it had been a while since I said anything about the progress of the fund--and if you''re an industry person, you might have started wondering. How where things going?

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additionally, the ACA’s Angel University pre-summit seminars offer deep dives into crucial topics like angel exit strategies and startup board management.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Startup Battlefield , the world’s preeminent pitch competition, has launched hundreds of startups over the years — 922 if you want to be a stickler about it. Yup, that sound you hear is opportunity knocking. We’re thrilled to have her on board. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. You’ll find them here.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

You will have more control over strategy and execution than with an outside board overseeing planning and performance. Money from these sources is relatively easy to come by, and most often comes with no strings as to oversight by a formal board composed of these investors and management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Monthly sessions share best practices, resources and cover everything from marketing, presentations, ghostwriting, publishing tips, pitching–any and everything related to promoting authors and speakers. Seeing the dramatic needs of students but not being able to provide services in-person, I realized a unique opportunity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

.” This isn’t necessarily bad news for venture capitalists, who seize opportunities that others aren’t even looking at. ” Among the opportunities biotech VCs are seeing, it is more and more common for an AI component to be involved. As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023?

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Startup Battlefield sees startups applying far and wide for a chance to pitch their ideas to a panel, and to all of us in the audience, giving the finalists a lot of exposure and a shot at winning the grand prize of $50,000. Garvey herself currently sits on the boards of Riipen, FourthRev, Holberton School and Ellevation Education.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. Those sorts of entrepreneurs can land a fund or board in deep water if they aren’t willing or able to change.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jenny is an entrepreneur, operator, board member, advisor, and investor in tech for over 25 years. The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. I recommend thinking about your pitch in three “Sections.”. Problem/Opportunity.

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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. All competitors — win or lose — bask in, and benefit from, this global, equal-opportunity spotlight.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Board minutes & board decks Board minutes are often too general and don’t significantly aid in due diligence.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

It’s not too late to enjoy an epic pitch-off of global proportion. Hear from these industry veterans and thought leaders about how technology can not only shape the future, but also where the biggest opportunities lie, including some exciting news about XTC and the FAO of the United Nations. AgTech & FoodTech: Wasteless.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 2. Going Green.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. The fund raise required three in-person pitches, seven Zoom pitches and 30 Zoom calls before closing successfully in August. Successful pitches help your confidence snowball. StockTrim came out successful – oversubscribed, in fact.

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This is going to be BIG.

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

We’ve been covering Square Off at CES for a couple of years now — ever since the connected chess startup competed in one of our pitch offs. Obviously you lose some of the magic here — the self-moving pieces have been sacrificed in order to bring a board that can be rolled up and stashed in a backpack for easier transport.

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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

MAY 2, 2023

Writing a crisp summary for a board meeting requires input from multiple stakeholders and more than a little bit of research. Amy Cheetham, a partner with Costanoa Ventures, shared 11 board slides with TC+ that show effective ways to convey accomplishments, pipeline details, hiring and team growth, and other key priorities.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2016

That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. Because I didn't get a screaming yes across the board, I sat on the deal, asking more people, trying to be peripherally helpful, but not jumping in and taking a risk. Makes sense, no? Doesn't sound crazy, does it?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Time to get on board: It costs less than $100 to attend TechCrunch Disrupt until this Monday. All Startup Alley exhibitors have their own virtual booth where you can check out their pitch deck, strike up a conversation, schedule a product demo or connect with them via CrunchMatch to set up 1:1 video meetings.

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