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Bark Tank and the Spirit of D.C.: The Future of Entrepreneurship in our Nation’s Capital

Revolution

Reflections on Georgetowns 2025 pitch competition from TedLeonsis Last week, Georgetown Universitys McDonough School of Business once again became a launchpad for the next generation of bold thinkers and doers. At Revolution, Ive seen what backing entrepreneurs with big ideas can breed. I cant wait to see what you all accomplish next.

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Navigating Risk, Learning Relentlessly: An Interview with Steve Gomberg of Mondegreen Ventures

Jason Malki

Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. Today, Steve Gomberg is the managing partner at Mondegreen Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on cleantech and medical technologies. I went to all types of pitch events and saw a lot of very bad ideas, technologies & business models.

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Why Interviewing Others is Awesome for Building Your Brand

This is going to be BIG.

No background in venture capital. Fast forward a few years, and The Twenty Minute VC became one of the most influential podcasts in venture capital. Not to pitch them. You might feel like an imposter interviewing someone really successful, but its actually a great way to level up your own brand. No industry connections.

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RFQ | Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Project Management

Forward Cities

Monthly Entrepreneur Pitch Events (Jul – Dec 2024) Coordinate monthly entrepreneurial gatherings, in partnership with an Alliance organization. Content and technical inputs will be provided by Forward Cities and/or E3 Alliance members, with the project manager ensuring efficient and timely execution.

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Thinking About Berlin: Unleashing a Creative Opportunity

This is going to be BIG.

If they are out there, others need to hear about them more--not in a pitch but in a better way to share cutting edge ideas. There are a ton of fantastically creative people here. It can't and won't be market scale or, in the near term, investment capital. There are clones of Fab, Birchbox, Pinterest, etc.,

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Pitch me!

This is going to be BIG.

It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. The first question I always get, which I find endlessly hilarious, is "Don''t you get tired of people pitching you all the time?". I''m just trying to be helpful.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. That''s a much better picture of female entrepreneurship than the 2-4% of venture capital dollars going to women. The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching.

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