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San Diego Angel Conference VI Announces Six Finalists to Compete for Share of Largest Event-Based Angel Fund in U.S.

American Entrepreneurship

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Tickets for live pitch event now available. Sponsors include C3 Bank, JP Morgan, Clearpoint Agency, Mintz, Knobbe Martens, Coeptus Law, Pillsbury Law, Withum, Family Business Consulting Group, Whittier Trust, Marsh McLennan Agency, Seraf and Gust.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

“If AI-related coverage can get a new, unknown brand into its target publications today, it could help get the brand’s pitch deck in front of potential investors or partners tomorrow,” she writes in TC+. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No.

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Telosity Ventures’ Sahai is a Trailblazer in Tech Investing and Digital Wellness

Jason Malki

Prior, she has 20+ years experience in healthcare, financial institutions, and insurance innovation and investment as an executive at Kaiser Permanente, Schwab, AIG, Blue Shield and Deloitte Consulting She has also founded 3 of her own startups. Pitch smarter, not harder. Thank you so much for joining us! trillion dollars.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. “Alternatives like management consulting and design agencies are expensive and inaccessible to the vast majority of business professionals.”

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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

Both Sides of the Table

” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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How to calculate your startup’s TAM, SAM and SOM

TechCrunch

At any stage of investment, be it seed or a Series B, it’s necessary to include a slide in your pitch deck that explains the size of your market from three perspectives — TAM, SAM and SOM. Airbnb disrupted the hotel industry by imagining a technology that would enable homeowners to match up with travelers seeking a place to stay.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. The tablet market has absolutely exploded.

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