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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

Are you creating a new market category, or is your product going to span multiple categories? Tell investors how your vision affects your go-to-market strategy and how you’ll expand across verticals within the industry that you’re tackling. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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Between our on-board CPUs and your mobile phone companions we have an enormous amount of data on transportation routes, where riders want to pick up scooters in the morning and where they leave them in the evening. When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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Or the way Uber is shaking up the cozy, static world of taxi transportation. Sure, that’s a fine category. Or like a company I spoke to today, SportsForce , that is helping high-school athletes better prepare to get picked up by college sports teams. That’s a problem in need of a solution – I’m sure.

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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. Interstate System : Atlanta is a nexus for major interstates like I-20, I-75, and I-85, allowing for efficient road transport. That still continues to this day: 60% of U.S.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

We were discussing whether they were going to attend one of the biggest conferences in the video sector this year where many of our industry’s startups spend tens of thousands in attendance fees, sponsorships, parties and transportation. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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Onboard Dynamics Is Leading the Transition to Next Generation Transportation Fuels, Reducing Emissions, and Driving Down Energy Costs

Angel Capital Association

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. In total, Onboard Dynamics has raised approximately $9.35