This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2011

First of all, their CrunchConnect product will make your pitches a lot easier, by not forcing your clients to download plugins to do over the web presentations. The process is extremely insightful—not only to hear how your team is pitching, but to hear, first hand, customer objections as well. So what does Salescrunch do?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Like most entrepreneurs, I started as an underdog, and it remained a key part of company culture as we grew. As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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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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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Unlike other business owner communities, people aren’t joining to pitch you on their company’s products or services, so you can build real relationships and help one another. I also struggled with creating a cohesive culture between different tiers of the organization. I now spend more time working on my business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

TechCrunch just hosted its first pitch-off in Detroit and we’re pleased to announce Diet ID won the event. Local investors acted as judges: Jim Tenzillo, VP at Invest Michigan ; Dawn Batts, Capital Strategist at TechTown and co-founder of Commune Angels ; and Ben Bernstein, principal at Invest Detroit Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. We started to build a casual relationship then. Fast forward to 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In this special interview, the co-founders of Pronexia—a new generation recruitment firm—open up about their bootstrapping days, their unique hiring methodology, and the role authenticity plays when building relationships and company culture. What we lacked in capital we more than made up for in determination. ME/ “Commit to culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

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. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. “Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn’t understand the culture.” He said that. And he said it so elequently.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A common culminating event in most accelerators, demo day is an event where founders pitch to a room to investors, angels, and journalists with the hope of raising a round and landing some coverage. The truth is, you don’t raise a round based on a 5-minute, highly scripted, polished and practiced on-stage pitch,” Feinzaig continued.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. So in a way, foreign capital can act as a stressor to African founders. There are other subtler impacts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

On Tuesday, VP and managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, Yair Snir, shared an article explaining why founders should plan to get acquired , particularly since their odds of going public are so long. Marco DeMeireles and Allan Jean-Baptiste, co-founders and GPs, Ansa Capital. Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This was a fantastic strategy in terms of impact, raising the bar for startup excellence in key startup ecosystems and opening up access to the Venture Capital financing market to founders who couldn’t or didn’t want to relocate to the Bay Area. But it also created two big problems for Techstars as a business: cash flow and brand identity.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. 2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. An accelerator that can help a founder raise more capital would be a huge value-add.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I often go on and on ( and on and on ) about startups not getting their financials and operating plans right in their startup pitch decks, so … not gonna lie, I picked Austrian startup Helu.io , which completed a €9.8 In Slide 7, the bullets on the left have capital letters and the ones on the rest start in lowercase.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s not actually surprising that investors bought into it, considering that for a long time, VCs have focused on one particular archtype of leader as being more worthy of venture investment than others—the bold, confident visionary who will talk big in the pitch meeting.

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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. Yes, absolutely.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you figure out how to 10X the success of difficult conversations, you can 10X the productivity, culture, and profitability of your company. Tal shared what he learned from his first-ever round of raising startup capital. I guarantee it!” Read the post for details on how to manage tough conversations in your company.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Smith discuss the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , which will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives. The virtual event runs April 27 to 28, 2021. Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Crunchbase examined the access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem and proved that many industry leaders still worry that nothing will drastically shift. What you need as a minority founder is an investor who is an active partner but, with government-backed funds, there is less demand to return the capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

billion , including companies like Memphis Meats, which develops cultured meat from animal cells; NotCo, a plant-based food brand; and Catalog, which uses organisms for data storage. As part of the accelerator, each participating company receives $250,000 in capital, numerous other services and access to lab space. Leaving the $3.2

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. In his discussion on tactics to help take companies from “$100 Million to $1 Billion” Scott emphasized the importance of team and culture.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We took some highlights from the session and chatted with a couple more partners to dive deeper into what founders need to know — how to ask for help, fundraising principles, how to build company culture and more. So now the week you’re pitching them, they feel like the pace is too high, so the bar is now higher than it was a week ago.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Atul Ajoy , partner, Horseshoe Capital. To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest? Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 Floww’s idea is that it showcases startups based on merit only, allowing founders to raise capital by providing investors with data and transparency.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nichols is intimately acquainted with the topic — as a founding managing partner of MaC Venture Capital (nee Cross Culture Ventures), he has been involved in helping more than 100 early-stage startups receive seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Hiring continues to be one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and those early employees can define the trajectory, culture and eventual success of it. Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. This is the pitch, at least if you’re a promising male. This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.” Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. I have also heard it referred to as a “narrative deck” — basically a detailed, written version of your pitch. Gaetano Crupi. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

My job basically revolves around strangers and technology--letting people I've never met that wind up in my inbox come into my office to pitch. They hangout with the same people they grew up with and haven’t ventured much past the world that mainstream media and pop culture has served to them via the broadcasted silver platter of TV.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As the pandemic drags on, employees are either soul-searching for a bigger purpose or simply exhausted by the uncertainty and stale culture of their current jobs. Freshly capitalized, MasterClass and Outschool are looking for ways to grow into their valuations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A Though much of the event is under wraps (stay tuned), we can promise an exciting slate of panels and articles to showcase the city’s culture and commitment to becoming a tech hub.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a Black social media founder, Terrell has observed the way that Black cultural contributions are ripped off or overshadowed , while white creators get credit for creating dances or memes that they had nothing to do with. Leading the investment are MaC Venture Capital and Kapor Center, with participation from Sunset Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. Data about startups is helpful to understand directional trends and how the flow of capital works and changes over time. techcrunch.com. Sign up here.

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