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German startup Pitch switches CEO and lays off two-thirds of its workforce

TechCrunch

Pitch, the company behind a collaborative presentation software for businesses, is scaling back and bootstrapping, with CEO and co-founder Christian Reber stepping down and two-thirds of its employees losing their jobs. This translates roughly to 80 personnel, based on the 120 headcount figure Pitch has published on its about page.

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Pitch Perfect: When Competition Meets Collaboration

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As part of our firm’s rebranding strategy for McKenzie Pitch Partners, which was anchored by the publication of founder Hamish McKenzie’s new book, we held an innovative event in New York City that showcased Hamish’s philosophy in action. Honing their strategies and stories with Hamish, both got their best pitches together.

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Scrintal raises $1 million for its visual collaboration tool

TechCrunch

Founded by Ece Kural and Furkan Bayraktar, Scrintal is a visual note-taking and collaboration tool. The image at the top of this story is from Scrintal’s pitch deck, which it used to raise the €1 million round. Stay tuned for our Pitch Deck Teardown of the company’s full deck coming later this week.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Scrintal’s $1M seed deck

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Scrintal recently raised $1 million to build its visual collaborative knowledge base tool and shared its deck for us to take a peek under the hood. I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks.

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Pitch Decks and Fundraising: A Fireside Chat with the Founder of Slidebean

Dream It

To celebrate their success, we collaborated with Slidebean to host a Fireside Chat in New York City on October 10th featuring Caya, founder of Slidebean, and Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit. About Slidebean: Slidebean is a pitch deck and presentation tool with hundreds of templates available to use as a starting point.

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FabuLingua wins the TechCrunch City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off!

TechCrunch

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow. Two other companies presented in the Austin pitch-off.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Momentum’s $5M seed pitch deck

TechCrunch

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.