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Justworks’ Series B pitch deck may be the most wonderfully simple deck I’ve ever seen

TechCrunch

He’ll create a framework that not only answers your specific question, but can prove to be a model that will answer future questions of the same type. They also gave live feedback on pitch decks submitted by the audience in the Pitch Deck Teardown. (If Pitch deck teardown — 33:00. He’s a systems thinker.”

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14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

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 help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? key in vivo data results).

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What's your hero story?

This is going to be BIG.

His story of overcoming child abuse, a missing arm ligament, a decade in the minors and going on to reinvent himself in his mid-30's using a pitch few have mastered is nothing short of inspirational. Oh, did I mention it turns out he's been pitching with a torn abdominal muscle all season? The movie centers around a lawsuit.

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The Three Frameworks You Need to Create Powerful Presentations and Tell Compelling Stories

Tomasz Tunguz

Presentations can be incredibly persuasive, and particularly in business, whether for closing candidates, pitching investors to fund raise, interviewing with the press and so on, they can materially impact the course of a startup. Great pitches oscillate between between what is and what could be. Time is demarcated along the x-axis.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Generative AI for proptech, cloud vendor shopping, cybersecurity fairy tales

TechCrunch

“The opportunity for entrepreneurs in real estate tech across search, listings, mortgage, insurance, construction and sustainability is the kind that shows up once a generation.” . ” Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide What do investors need from your problem slide?

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

What’s going to happen to those semi-vacant office towers, some of which are still under construction? Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed.

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