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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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

This can be anything like the problem you solve, the benefit you offer, lower price, higher quality, better customer experience, or fast customer support. Encourage early excitement with unique strategies. Leverage new-age social media strategies. Build a statement summing up why your brand exists.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

We strive to make entrepreneurship more accessible, and hope that by sharing our knowledge publicly, we can support the founder community more broadly. The new library is the perfect complement to Startup School , our free online program and global community for founders.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them. The following day, I delivered a four hour workshop on capital sources and pitch strategies for fifteen entrepreneurs in the Propel program.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

L earn m ore The Black Women in Food Grant: Made possible by support from UberEats and EatOkra, $100,000 in grants are given for Black women-owned food businesses on UberEats. Every applicant receives free access to the thousands of curated resources and a community of nearly 600,000 small business owners on Hello Alice. Lea rn more.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

Find a group of other women – an online community, a local community, or advisor or coach that can provide constructive feedback, support, and be a resource when you need help kicking down doors. Having a support system like my mom and having another female role-model to look up to has helped me over the years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eden shares how entrepreneurs can use AI apps such as ChatGPT to support decision-making while still exercising innate expertise and judgment. While I didn’t need to raise seed money, it was a smart way to mitigate risk, and mostly I just wanted to share the joy of entrepreneurship with the people who have supported me all these years.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch. ” “It is important to have a focus and a strategy but it is easy to spend too much time trying to get this right rather than doing the doing. Grow reciprocal relationships in your support network before you need them. Roar Collective.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

How they managed to rally other ecosystem stakeholders into supporting these efforts. But as manufacturing moved overseas and the landscape morphed and changed in the tobacco industry, our community has had to do some collective ‘soul searching’ to ensure that we are finding ways to diversify and strengthen our economy and move forward.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses? Brianna Ellison.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

This event, heralded as the industry’s flagship, convenes a diverse community of new and experienced angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurial minds to explore critical topics and trends in angel investing. She is an entrepreneur who supports entrepreneurs!

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The competition adds to MidAmerica’s education and workforce strategy to create a homegrown talent pipeline and foster connections between local students and the 80 established employers located within the Park,” MidAmerica’s Director of Workforce Development Scott Fry said. 3rd Place: Go-2-Shoes, Adair High School Best Pitch Presentation 1.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When facing the challenges of starting a business, a founder needs to be resourceful—and that includes having a network of contacts who are supportive and available to help. Seek out industry associations, taking advantage of community events such as conferences, workshops, training opportunities, and more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

From there, you’ll receive three months of business development support. That support includes these three masterclasses on essential entrepreneurial topics: Key Principles of the Lean Startup Methodology with John Lynn, founder of CELA Innovation . By pitching at one of our weekly Extra Crunch Live events in the run-up to Disrupt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

It’s a safe space to have frank discussions, share woes and triumphs, and get support through it all. Monthly sessions share best practices, resources and cover everything from marketing, presentations, ghostwriting, publishing tips, pitching–any and everything related to promoting authors and speakers. MyEO Education.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This event represents a significant milestone in the agency’s global startup support initiatives, offering a platform for innovative startups in Pangyo Techno Valley to attract investments and benefit from invaluable mentoring sessions. ’ Hills Robotics, headed by CEO Myeong-soo Park, specializes in advanced robot development.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 9, 2024

Salto Aceleradora: empowering Black women entrepreneurs The impactful journey of Salto Aceleradora, a programme dedicated to accelerating and supporting small businesses, particularly those led by Black women in Florianópolis and São Paulo. Additionally, the programme helped entrepreneurs recognise themselves within society.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

He will also address common challenges that nontechnical founders may encounter when building their founding team and offer practical strategies for overcoming them. TC Early Stage is prime networking real estate and offers multiple ways to connect with the people who can help you realize and/or support your goals.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Although veteran-owned businesses are often more successful than the average startup, they still need mentorship, funding and support to take their idea from concept to market. 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?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Strategy 1: Master Your Messaging Messaging is the bridge connecting your business with your prospective consumers. But it doesn’t end there: Use this strategy with storytelling. Strategy 3: Use the Power of Webinars For many years, webinars have stood out as the ultimate tool of interactive knowledge-sharing.

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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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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 22, 2020

There are plenty of other exits within the YC community to celebrate, but I won’t list them all. All made changes to their product strategy as necessitated by the new market conditions. We push founders to evolve their ideas, find product market fit, develop their strategy and their story.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.”

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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

We pitched a tent, gave out water and looked for words to assist. Our work as community champions and leaders has always been difficult. All week I have been hearing from you how you are stepping up and leading your local communities. To this end, here is how we are going to support you: COVID-19 Support and Recovery Webinar.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering. Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

VCs have to be a direct extension of the teams they support, but they can’t align and succeed with teams if they haven’t experienced one of the most crucial parts of their growth trajectory. Over the past year, VCs have been quick to commit to diversity, with 40% of firms putting D&I strategies in place.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

And as the global venture market slows down slightly , many investors are dialing back their usual growth expectations for seed-stage startups, which gives founders more freedom to develop customer relationships and acquisition strategies. Twitter Space: “How to Pitch Me,” with Mayfield Partners’ Arvind Gupta.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. We’re talking everything from legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. As 2020 fades into the rearview mirror of history (huzzah!), I recommend going to Early Stage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

This solves the issue of access as there are thousands of agents in these cash-dependent communities. When the information of this new set of customers is collected and saved on its platform, Bankly starts to build engaging communities where these people can collectively save their income with the agents. It was there Bankly started.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In an effort to open-source Supademo ’s own Product Hunt launch strategy, here is a clear breakdown of what we did to prepare for and execute our launch. Once you’ve reached out, pitch them on why they should support your launch! They’ll likely be the most vocal and willing to support you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. Anywhere from 20% to 50% of crypto-related pitches today are DeFi-focused, several investors we surveyed said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eden shares how entrepreneurs can use AI apps such as ChatGPT to support decision-making while still exercising innate expertise and judgment. While I didn’t need to raise seed money, it was a smart way to mitigate risk, and mostly I just wanted to share the joy of entrepreneurship with the people who have supported me all these years.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

A little over a year ago, I joined First Round Capital as an EIR -- with the goal of helping First Round root deeper into the community here after having already done almost a dozen deals, mostly out of their Philly office. Since that time, I’ve seen the whole firm mobilize in an effort to better support the NYC innovation community.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Looking for a supportive community of folks traveling a similar path? You’ll come away with actionable tips and strategies you can put to work right away. And if, at times, you feel like you’re going it alone, rest assured — you’ll connect with a supportive community of like-minded founders and builders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

AI is central to the core business in some companies, and in others it is simply a supporting character,” he said. Is it a good strategy to be so specific and what do you need to do to be successful if so? How do you prefer to receive pitches? There’s often one chart or slide that defines a pitch.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

Christina Theodoraki is Assistant professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy at Toulouse Business School. Her thesis entitled “Towards an Ecosystem Approach to the Strategy and Performance of Incubators” received two Best Dissertation in Management and Entrepreneurship Awards. 2) If you’ve got a better idea for a project, pitch it!

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