StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

You’ve got to pitch investors, target the right customer, hone your business model and raise critical funding just in time. Unlike a mentor who may counsel you sporadically and serve as an informal sounding board as you advance throughout your career, the advisor or coach relationship is a structured, compensated engagement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

We will be also publishing peer-reviewed academic papers on our advanced biomass inference work later this year with our partner researchers at leading universities around the world.” Sylvera , a U.K.-based million seed round in May last year by closing a $32 million Series A. The 2020-founded startup has now raised a total of $39.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

My husband and I are also pitching a second Weird Homes Tour book with all of the cities in it. At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. 5000 list twice! . You opened Urban Betty in 2005 and it’s been growing ever since. What drives you? And what’s next?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. It was a good interview, save for that little vein that I had no idea was so prominently featured on the side of my head--but what's a bald guy to do? At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. All hat and no cattle as they say. How about as a VC? And you know what?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Entrepreneurship, to me, still requires a special alchemy — a founder overcoming adversity, an investor concentrating a portfolio on something his or her peers (and LPs) do not yet understand. .” Entrepreneurs and investors both need risk in order to reap a reward. The following is my opinion. I believe risk-taking matters a lot.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

How important could a barbershop be? John Merrick rose from slavery to found the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the largest black-owned businesses in the United States. In the process, he helped to create a culture in early twentieth-century Durham so entrepreneurial that it became known as the “Black Wall Street.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Luckily for aspirational baseball players, pitch velocity, spin rate, and just about every other aspect of playing baseball are highly quantifiable in real-time. You throw a pitch and you don’t find out the speed for a year or even longer. That pitch you threw a year ago, that was 92. Just how good is good?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. often out of fear that being too pushy could lead to an earlier “no.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. But VC is like congress. Because they know him or her. They see how hard she does her job.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

First, the startup’s board — despite its long list of investors — consists of only the three co-founders who are stepping down and one independent director, Peter Ackerson, a general partner at Fin Capital who himself became a VC just three years ago. Welcome to The Interchange ! It’s my first full week back in some time, and I’m excited.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

When I started in the venture business and met software companies, I never heard the words customer success during pitches or throughout diligence or in board meetings. Startups that manage customer renewals better than their peers grow faster and require less capital. So, why now?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Across the board, the variance in metrics is stark. PLG Leaders have achieved 95% more revenue scale while still growing 141% faster than their peers, retaining 11% more of their revenue and staying more than twice as efficient when it comes to the Rule of 40. Products today aren’t pitched, they’re discovered.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

And look at the valuation creep across the board in the past year. They could chat about it with their peers or mentors. It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. that it’s sometimes hard to know when to pay attention and when to keep your head down.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Let’s say it’s for biz dev purposes, or you’re pitching investors, recruiting, or it’s a sales meeting – whatever. I know with a title like that I’m going to subject myself to people thinking I’m just being a grumpy, exclusive VC. That’s not the point. I’ll keep it short. Not so much.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Table of Contents What makes a “Dream Team” a dream team? The 4 critical components of every Dream Team 5 steps to building your Dream Team for fast, aligned results Common pitfalls to avoid when setting your team up for success Every startup begins with a close-knit team. Early success drives innovation, excitement, momentum, and more success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. This had a dual purpose?—?the they are communities and tribes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Adam Goulburn, a partner at Lux Capital, was first struck by Eikon Therapeutics’ pitch to use super microscopes to develop drugs when founder Eric Betzig posed a simple question: How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live? . “It It was such a simple statement, but it was kind of eye opening to me,” Goulburn tells TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London-based femtech, Hormona , which is pitching its hormone tracker in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, hopes to encourage people with periods to do just that: Add hormone-monitoring to their quantified health mix. Today it’s announcing the launch of its app in the U.S. The 2019-founded U.K. The 2019-founded U.K.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

The pandemic has just pushed edtech mainstream, but language-learning startup Duolingo had already spent the past decade figuring out how to build a successful edtech app. Want this kind of coverage on a different company or sector. Check out our ever-growing list of EC-1s , which include recent profiles of Klaviyo, StockX, Tonal and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job. It’s not a platform for her to promote any experiments. It’s not something she’s doing because that’s the next logical step in a political ladder. It’s not an interesting career change for someone who made it rich doing something else.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC she cofounded Homejoy. 00:00 – Intro.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: DocSend’s VC Fundraising Report If expanding your network and practicing your pitch are important to you, you may benefit from pitching a larger pool of investors. from pre-seed to Series A. or really, jump on the Zoom meeting. But does it make sense to cast a wide net and contact as many LPs as possible?

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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. Reports indicate they secured 83% more funding than the previous year, primarily attributed to the record-setting $329 billion U.S. startups raked last year.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

“As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Billions of dollars.

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