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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, SMEs were required to visit physical bank branches, provide extensive documentation, and endure lengthy approval processes for loans. MYbank has acknowledged the obstacles encountered by SMEs, which include limited coverage, depth, and accessibility of necessary financial services.

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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. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you ask Perttu Ojansuu, the answer is an intranet, or a company-specific, digital portal that centralizes much of a businesses’ software and documentation in one place. Beyond this, the service — which integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — offers a place to host shared files and documents.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

Eva Doss, President and CEO at The Launch Place, elaborated, “We had multiple organizations in the region that were providing specific services to entrepreneurs and small businesses: business counseling, seminars, workshops, investment capital, pitch competitions, networking events, etc. says Alexis.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. Accord has rivals in Clari and Outreach, both of which recently snatched up early-stage companies (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But this is something that French startup Edda is looking to fix, with a platform aimed at helping investors, analysts, chief financial officers (CFOs), and even company founders get the insights they need, and the tools that make working collaboratively on deals just that little bit easier. Investors invest.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. To track and share progress, leverage project management and collaboration tools such as Trello, Asana, or Jira.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As expected, Patole and Gawande used Chronicle to build their pitch deck for fundraising. Chronicle is currently in closed beta, working with about 200 pilot users on a first version focused on founders’ pitch decks. The second are design tools like Canva and Pitch. The two-year-old startup announced today it has raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

According to an August survey from Workvivo , an employee collaboration app, 95% of HR workers say that they’ve felt overwhelmed in the last six months while 73% felt under-valued by their employers. ” Luperti has a product to pitch. This is where our unique model can support them,” Luperti said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. “[W]ith Adept, you’ll be able to focus on the work you most enjoy and ask our [system] to take on other tasks … We expect the collaborator to be a good student and highly coachable, becoming more helpful and aligned with every human interaction.”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Creating a spreadsheet or a Word document can be helpful for this step. What issues would you want to collaborate on? The best business partners not only complement each other’s strengths, but they also make up for each other’s weaknesses as well. Here are some of the ways you can look for and engage potential partners.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

Q: Please give us an overview of TBD Angels. TBD Angels is an early-stage investing group, founded in early 2020 , with a mission to enable our members to extract value out of the collective group through collaboration during dealflow, and engagement with our portfolio companies.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can’t pay them in the early days unless you pitch, and deliver on, exponential growth for your investors. Action: Document your core values, collaborate with stakeholders that share those values, and be ready to compromise on everything else.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Code Ocean hopes to make it easier for scientists to collaborate by making a flexible, shareable format and platform for any and all datasets and methods, and it has raised a total of $21M to build it out. That, at least, is the pitch Code Ocean offers for its platform and “Compute Capsules.” The capsule itself is here.).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

By leveraging respected psychology data from behavioral assessments such as DISC and Enneagram, Cloverleaf provides personalized coaching tips to team members directly in the communication and collaboration tools they use every day, including Google Workplace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Learn more at Advantagecap.com.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The statement of work converts the company’s phone or in-person sales pitch into an asset for the internal champion. For this reason, SOWs can be a vital document in the handoff between sales and customer success and can also form the basis for better collaboration between the two teams.In

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Look no further than Oura’s new collaboration with Gucci. What is a reporter to do when they get a pitch from a company that had its name “stolen” by Apple, but it turns out the company failed to register a trademark because they thought it would be pointless? Gucci, Gucci goo : How do you feed a need for fancier things?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

FreightRoll claims that its app-based, paperless trade documents can save shipping companies up to 30% of freight overhead costs. They have won $20k in funding from the inaugural A2EF pitch competition, have been incubated at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program, and won multiple awards for their project. FreightRoll. Workit Health.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 1, 2020

When it is from someone who sits across the table for that initial conversation, sees the work we have done and then says I’ll put in money based on the confidence we have been able to generate, that’s a huge start to a successful collaboration. President, and CEO of Progentec.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And I think that’d be a fascinating era for all designers to be working in collaboration with these AI systems. We’re using the technology and the technology is helping us understand how to collaborate with it versus ‘program’ it. I’ve got to go consult documentation. Dylan Field, Figma 4.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. One, collaboration, and two, the ease with which you can create. Dylan: On a technical level, if you look at the actual internal structure of a Figma document, it’s much more similar to an abstract syntax tree and less similar to some image.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Understanding the needs is crucial for such collaborations since most founders don’t come to us when they start but when they experience the first serious issues. So they are living documents that you should initially review after each interview and adjust as needed, and at a later time for strategic realignments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

For those involved in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) industry, a notoriously relationship-driven business, this has meant in-person boardroom handshakes have been replaced by video conference calls, remote collaboration and potentially less travel in the future. WalkMe is going public: Let’s stroll through its numbers.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. We can use technology to make sales far more efficient. .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Capria leads the “largest network of collaborating fund managers in emerging markets” Their product Edge enables you to benchmark your internal processes against other investors. 2) Market .

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. But it really helped them in a tricky time when we were scaling quickly and they had to collaborate on a bunch of things that we were building for the first time. Mine, I edit constantly. That’s the other thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. True story.) million were enormous.

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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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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. This experience makes learning to code more engaging, competitive, and collaborative than anything else on the market. This experience makes learning to code more engaging, competitive, and collaborative than anything else on the market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

” Working with an attorney to create “strong and clear governing documents” early in your relationship goes a long way toward building trust on the founding team by creating general plans for how to handle events like future fundraising or M&A transactions. Pitch Deck Teardown: Vori’s $10M Series A deck. “The

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

We now start every software evaluation by documenting exactly how employees currently work before considering how systems might change those patterns. Many CRMs are designed for traditional sales pipelines, but agencies need tools for client relationships, campaign tracking, and team collaboration. A hard lesson indeed.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 17, 2023

Basana Saha , Founder and Editor, KidsCareIdeas Pitch Yourself as an Expert Source to Journalists I have no budget for publicity, but I recently had success getting publicity by pitching myself as an expert source for journalists who cover topics that overlap with my business. Yulie Yoshimura , Founder, Ikaga Co.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Named after Medina’s father’s nickname, Lalo functions like a digital scrapbook — when you sign up, you can create a “space” to share memories, then invite friends and family to collaborate, too. So, he recorded a video of himself pitching the product and shared it to Twitter. It’s not too obtrusive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. Image: Rows.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 23, 2015

They, too, must prototype, position, pitch, bootstrap, recruit, fund, partner, sell, and support. I collaborated on this post with Bill Meade , director of data science at Neal Analytics. The downside of trying to innovate within a big company is clear and well documented, but there are also benefits. Guess again.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

The best part, he documented the journey so others could follow in his legendary foot steps. So I immediately requested more information and dropped a little sales pitch as to why the owners should meet with me. Cobrowsing, aka collaborative browsing, is the idea of 2 or more people browsing the same website at the same time.

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