This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Just as importantly, she was an incredibly loyal and supportive friend and co-worker during really difficult times. When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story". I even got her to come speak at Fordham while I was still in college.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I've written about this before , but if you can build a relationship with someone through sports, books, and various cultural interests without the pressure of each person trying to get something explicitly professional out of it. 4) Share your hobbies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. ” Let’s start with some basics.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I was WAY off between my book research about what the engineering & construction market would want (my first company) and what they actually wanted. And you need to watch them pitch. Repeat this process 50 times and trust me you’ll see patterns. I only found out through customer meetings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Start here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Who was willing to jump on a plan on a Sunday morning with a hang-over to make sure they were there the night before an important biz dev pitch on a Monday morning. Nearly any funny startup story I’ve ever told about the “early days” of startup land (and many stories I’ve saved for my book) somehow involve Stuart.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. Complaints about support may be real – it might actually be time to scale and give your sales people more leverage.

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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. Ever the community builder, Derek booked Clay to speak at his event but instead of interviewing him he asked me?—?somebody to do the interview.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Boston Children’s Hospital has piloted or promoted dozens of voice applications and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has supported the development of platforms like Sopris Health and Aiva Health. Other healthcare organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Merck, the American Red Cross, and Amgen are creating their own voice tech products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. Perfecting My Pitch. It’s like the Super Bowl for entrepreneurs!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

In addition to developing Urban Betty , a successful salon with two locations, Neff also created an app for stylists , produced a book about homes in Austin, Texas, and even reached the Inc. You also have an impressive array of side projects—from books and apps to philanthropic and environmental initiatives. 5000 list twice! .

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. There are many good books on this subject, and you owe it to yourself to read at least one of them before you begin talking to angels. Understand your business.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The clearest mechanism for this support was wartime expenditures on research and development by the U.S. No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History. This post summarizes the parts of his book that deal with U.S. government policy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This is one book-end of the cycle. There have also been many high profile financings of infrastructure players to support these gaming platforms including Offerpal Media, SuperRewards (bought by AdKnowledge), Gambit and more recently LA-based Sometrics. But I do believe it’s too early to proclaim victory.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Decentralized order book for loans. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

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. Read more about the business development support you’ll receive as part of Startup Alley+. Your audience?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

I flew to Washington, DC, and sat down with Warren, then-EO Director Bob Strade, and Ben Richter (who also had a programme to pitch to Warren). In the first year (2008), we had a meager budget, limited staff support, and only seven months to pull everything together. They, too, were happy to support the cause. All of them did.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Positioned as a “micro-learning” platform,” Uptime presents five-minute “knowledge hacks” from books, courses and documentaries. Or so the pitch goes. for its condensed reading platform for non-fiction books. for its condensed reading platform for non-fiction books.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Your product must: Have key security solutions or applications used by the firm Have APIs that can be used to integrate with homegrown tools Support industry standards that are applicable to your product category. Remember, most CISOs detest typical sales-oriented pitches. What are these requirements?

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 23, 2020

Or, do you have additional advice for founders who pitch to your group? I answer more questions and provide more coaching about investor pitches than anything else. The first step in that process is a pitch, and getting it right is essential to the future of your business. A pitch is just a special kind of presentation.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. COO of SpaceX.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

In our recently published 2021 Ecosystem Playbook , we tell the stories of several of these cities across the country and how they are supporting startups in the wake of the pandemic. So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.” “We We are the Facebook for Y.” “We That difference?—?the

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 4, 2022

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital, business support services, BIG IDEA Contests, and Startup Boot Camps to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. Visit www.cnp.benfranklin.org for program details. Gig And Take Inc.,

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Surround yourself with people and things that lift you up and support you. If you’re a B2B business, go pitch your target audience before you have a product and validate what will make them say yes. Ultimately the difference between failure and success is usually decided by persistence. Never give up.” The Cleaning Lady.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The answer to the original question, therefore, is that an entrepreneur should use Gust as a set of powerful tools to organize, support and smooth the fundraising process, rather than expecting it to be a magic bullet. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was also involved in litigation support engagements, concerning auditors being alleged of professional negligence for not detecting fraud happening in private companies and public listed entities. We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool. I was mainly educated in accounting and finance. Schwarzman.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The idea for the b2b product is to automate the time-consuming and expensive process of sales outreach, including locating and pitching leads, as well as to offer tools to streamline and enhance initial sales meetings. So a pitch-by-robot might be all too easy to ignore. to improve the quality of the meetings,” he says.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

CEO and co-founder Alex Wang credits their success since founding, which includes raising over $277 million and achieving break-even status in terms of revenue, to early support from investors including Accel’s Dan Levine. The Product Hunt spot wasn’t planned, either — Wang was as surprised to see his company there as anyone else.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. She previously founded Dress for Success, a network that empowers women to thrive both professionally and personally, and Crisis Textline, a non-profit that provides crisis intervention support via text. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? And it’s fun!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Milan-headquartered scale-up Boom , which offers a two-sided tech platform to let companies book and manage commercial photo shoots, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. It will be used to support the photo tech company’s next stage of growth as it sets its sights on “5% market share” of the $80bn global digital photography market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

If you feel like supporting me extra, subscribe to my very free and still in the works Substack. Pitch decks and term sheets welcome too. Pitch decks and term sheets welcome too. No pitches, please. Book your pass ASAP! And before we truly continue, I have a shameless plug: Scoops make me happy. Give it a listen.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. We could see that there was value in supporting students across the university to participate in this event. As we went through the list of QUT-supported mission alumni, Rowena told me about the coding classes. What support do you need? Where are they now?

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

” Tawo’s pitch for PayTalk reminded me much of Viv, the startup launched by Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer (later acquired by Samsung) that proposed voice as the connective tissue between disparate apps and services. The reservation and booking functionality seems broken as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I think you’ll end up with a newer lawyer who’s trying to build her book of businesses. Lawyers are your support staff not your brain. Sure, they’ll take you on. But try getting the time of the A players. You’ll get the scraps. And worst still, you won’t even be her top priority. Get to know them.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

How they managed to rally other ecosystem stakeholders into supporting these efforts. What challenges and success the initiative booked in the first six months, and how COVID-19 impacted the project. How they envisioned the role and necessary skills of an ecosystem builder. What success looks like in this three-year pilot.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2023

Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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