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Appropriate Accessibility: Announcing nextNYC Open Office Hours

This is going to be BIG.

It’s easy for a VC to just stick within your own networks and filter bubbles—and hard to scale being “open” without opening the floodgates. I didn’t care much whether you curated the room or not, because it was a chance for me to spend an hour or so talking to 50-100 people.

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A Tale of Two Fundraising Stories

This is going to be BIG.

With one company, a founder and his super inspirational, creative, and established buddy hatch a plan to build a very strong content brand that serves as a platform for a lot of diverse revenue streams--events, ecommerce, advertising. The first pitch I got was from someone who didn''t intend on staying with the business as an employee.

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A men’s brand, Faculty, launches with nail polish — and seed funding from Estee Lauder

TechCrunch

There will be merchandise, according to the former business management consultant. Certainly, their pitch — that men need more ways through unconventional men’s products to express themselves — is a smart one.

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AI’s hype isn’t going to be simply star-studded 

TechCrunch

Also, Ehab Bandar, founder at design consultancy Bigtable.co, told TechCrunch back in September that “designers, and especially cross-functional teams, hate to switch software. Others saw a potential liquidity event as an opportunity to usher in a new generation of creative, and perhaps entrepreneurial, designers.

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

TechCrunch

In any case, it’s a reasonably compelling sales pitch. “It’s extremely time consuming and expensive to build out robot process automations using traditional tools like UiPath, not to mention the initial consultant setup fees, which most people are forced to pay if they don’t have the resources in-house,” he writes.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent.

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