This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If it turned out that the best experiences I''ve had as an investor come from knowing someone a long time, I might go to events that are more around a specialty, like software development or design.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She was the dominant figure in my family and was both an entrepreneur and a community leader. My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. Heck, you can launch your company if you’re a developer for $50,000. And many of the best women founders. But then the truth sets in.

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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.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I can't think of a single time when a white man came to pitch me and I told him his fundraising plans weren't aggressive enough. Yet, for some reason, the goals for her pitch were incremental--despite being in an extremely hot space. And no, that doesn't mean pitch like a man. Something else is at play.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

LANCASTER, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners is pleased to announce the winners of their TechCelerator pitch competition. The pitch competition was the finale for six teams who participated in an intensive 10-week startup boot camp offered by the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. MEH Support took home a cash prize of $6,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

I don’t want any formal pitches. Their dealflow is angels or seed investors pitching “their best deals” to you in emails. But every pitch you get wants a follow up and you take a certain number of second meetings and your defensive crouch gets even tighter. So I have a rule on accelerators. Play the long game.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. Like many communities in this position, it has not been easy or straightforward.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Startups pitched for 10 minutes each. pitches , back-to-back, with no Q&A. Evolved how we selected companies eventually involving the mentor community, ensuring entrepreneurs were evaluated based on how well they responded to feedback. It wasn’t scalable. We had to find a better way.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2024

These EOers work with the students to refine their pitches and provide insights and tips to help them succeed in the high-level competition. Although every student had their pitch honed to perfection, there is always the extra mile to explore deeper meaning. It is a competition and a show. Get involved!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Video pitching. I see an uptick in pitching via pre-recorded video. We used Loom to pre-record our pitch and share it with potential investors. It’s a great way to personalize a pitch deck and share it with interested parties. This will result in community successes. Here’s what they shared.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I. With its inaugural Fund in place, The Veteran Fund focuses on early-stage startups developing critical, dual-use technologies addressing national and commercial challenges.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2012

Drop by AngelList, where startups have been vetted by a community of advisors and other investors. I mean, if you don't know any developers, how you are meeting them when they build something that you can fund? Are you waiting for them to pitch you? Need an even more Seamless-like experience?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. International and non-Valley startup communities are developing at a rapid pace. Most founders that get funded know their backers or have close connections to them well before they officially "pitch.". There is no fork.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

What issues in your community drove you to create this company? It could take weeks longer to import goods, but they do it because they don’t even know that someone in their community provides it as well. I used to pitch ideas to my cousins and my parents of ways I was going to make money. What keeps you motivated?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

What’s a poor, freshly minted developer to do when they’re out of coding boot camp but don’t have any real-life experience? Oh, yeah, pitch decks and the tearing down thereof. I’m always on the lookout for more pitch decks we can share with our TechCrunch readers. You step into the world of simulation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

I quickly realized after joining a Forum that EO wasn’t just there to help you get rich but to support the complete entrepreneur, from wealth creation to emotional support, community, and education. Entrepreneurship is a trade like any other trade, and continued learning and development is the key to honing that trade.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I love how open Danielle has been throughout the development of her startup Mattermark including honest reflections of when she has changed her opinion. Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. That’s what it feels like.”. All of my partners at Upfront do.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. Who will you be pitching to? The pitch-off will consist of three startup companies presenting for four seconds on the virtual stage, in front of the entire TC Sessions audience and our expert panel of judges.

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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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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. Eight entrepreneurial teams presented their business startup ideas to a panel of judges, friends, family, and other community members for a chance to win $10,000 to launch their business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. Each does it for building an online community either for personal or professional utility. 90% of the online video businesses that pitch me do none of these things.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Pariti , the Kenya-based community-led marketplace building the digital infrastructure for startup ecosystems in emerging markets, has raised $2.85 Berhane mentions that Pariti’s pitch assessment and recommendation engine also has some predictability features where the platform can tell how companies will perform with fundraising. “So

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 17, 2024

After an intensive weekly program, eight innovative start-ups pitched their business models to a panel of judges, with three outstanding participants receiving top honors. Over the course of 10 weeks, business Founders participated in development classes and were provided mentorship with direct access to investment opportunities.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow and co-founder of L3G’s & Associates, Fatima Chi, is empowering businesses in her community in Belize to take control of their finances. I became conscious that our community was facing a dilemma of businesses opening and closing quickly due to their poor financial management. I owe it to my female community.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Start here.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 20, 2025

STATION DC was launched by Capital Factory, in partnership with the City of Washington, DC, as a community-driven coworking and event space designed to support diverse entrepreneurs, creators, and changemakers. As the official D.C. As the official D.C.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

For this week’s Pitch Deck Teardown, I’m (virtually) traveling to Sweden to take a look at the $3 million seed round raised by developer tool startup Encore. The company is creating what it calls a software development platform for the cloud. Slides in this deck. 1 — Cover slide. 18 — Diagram slide. 1 — Cover slide.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship. The result?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In Canada, for example, it’s working with Innovate Edmonton on an accelerator program focused on community safety. EngFlow : A system meant to help developers compile their code faster (5-10x faster, in their cited examples) by distributing the build process across multiple machines. billion in funding, collectively.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. They were playing small clubs to the gay community (her early ardent fans or “first 50”) and they were getting a warm reception so they wanted to double down on this community.

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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. I flew to Washington, DC, and sat down with Warren, then-EO Director Bob Strade, and Ben Richter (who also had a programme to pitch to Warren).

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Developing a business idea is essential, but how do you recognize one? 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? Develop your passion. Product or service development. Find a need and fill it.

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