Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

Being a female entrepreneur is looking better each and every day. The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women. In 2017, just 2.2%

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 22, 2022

He invited us to pitch in front of a coalition of… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ». In the middle of our fundraising efforts for our seed round, I got a call from Joshua.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 1, 2021

You can spend hours learning to give great fundraising pitches, but you’re probably wasting your time Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Organize events in your vertical.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This triggered entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras to collect the bounty. And how mismatched (or unspoken) ones in venture capital can cause stress. Similar to Boz’s essay earlier, this one too is about incentives.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Avoiding 5 Common Cyber Entrepreneur Pitfalls In this #DreamitLive, Ron Gula , president of Gula Tech Ventures , joins Steve Barsh to talk about the 5 most common mistakes cyber entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them. 15:00 - What does you Gula Five Slide Pitch Deck look like? 21:00 - Does the best tech always win?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What we did: The Rise of the Rest team kicked off October with a trip to Chi-Town to catch up with portfolio companies Blueprint , Unreal Estate , and Rheaply and co-investor, Chicago Ventures. Their jam-packed agenda culminated with a gathering of local entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders for happy hour at Siena Tavern.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Organize events in your vertical.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are not yet ready to pitch an investor. Just saying your product is AI-driven will not cut it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Kunal Lunawat is the co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on proptech, travel, hospitality and the future of the built world. The success of a fundraising process is entirely dependent on how well an entrepreneur can manage it. More posts by this contributor. Know your BATNA.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

We’re facing a pretty big climate change challenge, and I’ve long been skeptical about whether venture capital can be as big a part of the solution as it seems to think it is. 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. Team slide.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. The list goes on.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. Advantage Capital is an equal opportunity provider. In 2023, Cloverleaf achieved recognition on the Inc.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Keep it short.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

The venture capital market is slowing down, which means early-stage founders are chasing a smaller pool of money. “Oftentimes, investors have a sense of whether a pitch is going to go somewhere within the first 15-20 minutes of a conversation.” billion to $1.81 billion, a 31% decline. ” Christine Tsai.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. It’s in our national interests to make becoming an entrepreneur as egalitarian as possible. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility. China, not the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

Dorrian is an entrepreneur. It is Nikolas Tesla pitching a VC firm. Because the videos show exactly what life would be like if a young Elon Musk came to pitch VCs today and said I want to transform P2P finance, get people driving electric cars and send a man to mars in our lifetime. He is that.0001% He knew me then.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Exploring Shaun Gold’s Entrepreneurial Journey as Nightlife Ninja, Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and VC I had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Gold. He is a successful entrepreneur, VC, 2x best-selling author, speaker, super connector to startups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter/executive producer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. Lo Toney, the founding managing partner at Plexo Capital.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Here’s a list of top sources for funding minority entrepreneurs. The NASE has been around since 1981, providing entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, including those by minority owners with access to grants and educational resources. It is a great resource for minority entrepreneurs with a more specific funding need.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some entrepreneurs are born salespeople, others find it more awkward but ultimately realize getting comfortable pitching — to investors, to the team, to potential employees, and so on — is part of the job. But as a venture investor, I hate it. They get more capital because they’re learning, growing, achieving.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

SaaS is still open for business, but it’s going to take longer to buy and sell How to pitch CVCs Image Credits: Getty Images As individual VC firms pulled back and began amassing dry powder in 2022, corporate venture capital (CVC) funds stepped up. PitchBook found that CVCs played a part in 56.2%

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Learning to structure your pitch around this one question is the key to raising capital. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Momentum pulled off what every entrepreneur dreams of: Last year, it closed a lead investor for its seed round — which our own Ron Miller covered at the time — without even creating a pitch deck. Once a lead was secured, Momentum created a pitch deck to fill out the round. Makes the pitch feel current.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 15, 2023

Great pitch decks are like works of art. Are you ready to become a pitch deck artist? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Don't get me wrong; the pitch deck is a crucial document (trust me, it's what we do).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Thacker said entrepreneurs should be open to raising as much as possible during the concept phase to make sure they have freedom to tinker and iterate. I’ve seen some founders — as a VC, this is gonna sound self-serving me saying this — but I’ve seen some founders that raise way too little capital in their pre-seed round or their seed round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss The art and science of pitching (sweet visuals included) The one winning formula to pitching But first, some wise words from angel investor and startup mentor DC Palter : “Amateurs pitch that their startup will succeed; professionals pitch how their startup cannot fail.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

But the rules are different in startup-land: although there are basic best practices for putting together a pitch deck or term sheet, there are no hard rules for approaching potential investors. Sarah Kunst, Cleo Capital. Mike Ghaffary, general partner, Canvas Ventures. Sarah Kunst, managing director, Cleo Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s free to attend, and it’s free to submit your Minneapolis-area startup to the pitch-off competition. Just like every TechCrunch Live event, the program features entrepreneurs and investors who will share their stories with the goal of helping others build better venture-backed businesses. I hope you can make it.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

It also doesn''t take into consideration many important factors: One, venture backed companies are a tiny hiccup in the grand scheme of entrepreneurship. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. I scratch my head over why raising venture is put on such a podium.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

“I was a pitch deck nerd even before giving a real pitch deck,” Ratner said. Of course, it takes practice to pitch well. This episode is a must-watch for anyone preparing a pitch. Ratner and Motamedi drew a straight line from a pitch to raising early funds, and the starting point is a clear message.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Of these, only 70,000 get angel investment, and less than 5,000 get venture capital. But the problem is that entrepreneurs realise these mistakes only after they make it and get rejected. But the problem is that entrepreneurs realise these mistakes only after they make it and get rejected. Substandard Pitch Decks.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mighty Oaks Capital Partners’ Gbenga Olomola Sleeps and Wakes Working with Global Startups and Funds I had the pleasure of interviewing Gbenga Olomola, Founder & Group/CEO of Mighty Oaks Group. Gbenga Olomola’s expertise spans equity capital markets, debt capital markets, M&A, and business acquisition, among other areas.

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