NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

“It was a combination of having the theoretical business knowledge – how to build a business with a framework that helped you put that into practice, which is delivering your first pitch and understanding your value proposition, understanding your customer, your market. And then, what are the government’s issues in communicating it? “We

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Under Zach’s leadership, Grapevine empowers organizations to streamline their operations by integrating communication and knowledge management in one seamless platform, driving better collaboration, productivity, and engagement across the board. When we first started pitching Grapevine, people didn’t always get it right away.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

More than 100 interactive sessions will ensure attendees have opportunities to network, learn, and collaborate in ways that are impossible at larger, more impersonal events. For the startup community, HumanX will offer a special pitch competition sponsored by Google Cloud, with the potential for founders to win up to $1 million in investment.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2025

Aligned with direct services to entrepreneurs, the E3 Alliance—a dynamic advisory council of local entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) and community partners—serves as a collaborative engine for aligned priorities and action.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 10, 2025

She also recently pitched her feature spec, Irish Morning , and tv pilots, Peri Does Europe and Collette’s Caleb  — both of which placed as semi-finalists in the ScreenCraft 2025 TV Pilot contest — at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, to great response, and they’re under consideration at multiple production houses. Plus, to use my French!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 55 Washington Street.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with It’s clear things have changed for good and the need for managing remote communities of employees, customers and partners has become ever more important. they are communities and tribes. this is classic community management.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. What ever happened to “build it”?

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Why we run this particular mission.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." The level of talent and supportive collaboration among the community at Studiomates checks both boxes and continues to ensure that everything he puts out is top notch. Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Kenna is the founder and chief executive of LinkUp , a company that provides small businesses in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines a digital space to collaborate as well as promote and sell their products and services. What issues in your community drove you to create this company? We value continuous improvement for quality.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. Do you find expression “the sky’s the limit” well, limiting?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 15, 2021

First, we congratulated affiliates selected to participate in the SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program including National Urban League , Nicolet Area Technical College , New Bedford Economic Council , Rochester Economic Development Corporation and Forward Cities. What is the new normal for your team and network?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community. Make it Collaborative.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So organic community-building looks like a work in progress. While the group we saw that had the largest number of members (~1k) was an open pitch around podcast ideas and soliciting help for podcast projects. “We are all about building a platform, and a community around collaborative short-form audio.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

You’re part of a knowledgeable group of investors who work collaboratively to evaluate each startup and its ability to provide valuable, marketable solutions and good returns.” SDAC is about community building as much as portfolio expansion. It’s inclusive, transparent, and welcoming. It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The GitHub for music producers ranging from Hook N Sling , Mr Hudson SLY, and Steve Solomon to TechCrunch’s own Megan Rose Dickey , Splice gained a following for its ability to help electronic dance music creators save, share, collaborate and remix music. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Steve Martocci and his team at Splice.”.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

According to Diana Schwartz, Executive Director at River District Association, economic and societal shifts were having an enormous impact on the community’s economy, “For over 100 years, Danville, Virginia , has been a textile and tobacco powerhouse, and that is what the local economy depended on heavily for the majority of that time.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. These funds are given to both community groups and individual artists in film, theatre, and dance. Applications are received throughout the year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You’ll hear from and engage with the top minds, makers and investors in the space community. Connect and build relationships and opportunities with the global space startup community. Check out the competition, start a conversation or kick off a collaboration. Pitch, pitch, pitch. See details in reason No.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

. “Active Replica will continue to work with our existing customers, partners and community.” ” Mozilla launched Hubs in 2018, which it pitched at the time as an “experiment” in “immersive social experiences.” Adhering to web standards, Hubs supports all the usual headsets and goggles (e.g.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 14, 2024

Four startup finalists pitched to an audience of entrepreneurs and angel investors For the sixth consecutive year the San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC), held at the University of San Diego, made sizeable investments into two startup finalists of its four-month-long program.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

It is a spirit that has contributed to the personal development of some of the world’s finest entrepreneurs making a true impact on companies, communities, and families across the globe. A year earlier, as EO began fostering stronger collaborative bonds with WPO/YPO, I had attended the Public Policy Forum, a YPO event in Washington, DC.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As you look around your local community, take the time to talk to people to discover unmet needs. What is missing that your community currently wants? Before you can pitch your idea to investors or apply for a loan from a financial institution, you should draft a business plan. Find a need and fill it. Develop your passion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

. “Their dedication and ingenuity exemplify the vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem thriving in our community.” For nearly 40 years, Ben Franklin has been providing investment capital, business support services, and operational assistance to emerging tech startups and small manufacturers. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

TechCrunch, in collaboration with these organizations and VC firms like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital, provide these young founders with educational resources and mentorship over the course of a year. Tune in a get ready to take notes — the advice you hear could help you improve your pitch deck.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

21 Ways to Encourage Collaboration Among Startup Team Members To help you foster collaboration among your startup team members, we’ve gathered twenty-one insightful tactics from CEOs and founders. Plus, it’s fun and builds a culture of innovation and collaboration.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. A pitch deck is a teaser, where its goal is to create an appetite for further conversations and this can work equally well with prospective co-founders as it does with investors. Get the pitch right Tell a great story Startups that tell a great story get funding.

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. At each stop, we will host a fireside chat, a community celebration, and a pitch competition where eight startups will compete for a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

PIN wants to replicate the Stanford 2020 story for other community-based ventures. Community investment clubs are even more difficult because of the number of investors (a club can commonly have hundreds of members), which introduces even more friction during the fundraising process and ongoing operations.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor to Sidewalk Labs — hopes to woo families with the pitch that it operates at the center of fintech, ed tech, and entertainment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before.

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