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How pitch training can help startups get their story right

TechCrunch

When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. What do people often misunderstand about pitch training?

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15 Underrepresented Founders Share $170K in Startup302 Grant Prizes

American Entrepreneurship

Mentorships and other resources also provided to winning tech-enabled startups led by members of underfunded demographics as part of Delaware’s fourth annual pitch competition WILMINGTON, Del. (

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How to Adapt Your Pitch for Your C-Suite Executive Targets

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. My team members call it the Pitch Perfect experience.

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Preparing to Start a Company

This is going to be BIG.

If enterprise sales is the hard part of what you’re doing, figure out how you can de-risk that first—maybe by trying to pitch some vaporware to buyers or perhaps getting them to pay you to build it on a consulting basis. Build a following around what you’re doing. Be deliberate in terms of what you want to get out of investors.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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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). One mechanism to assuage concerns regarding novelty or differentiation is to set up a 3rd party review process with a trusted consultant.

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Generative AI is building the foundation of proptech’s next wave

TechCrunch

More posts by this contributor A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs 5 factors founders must consider before choosing their VC For artificial intelligence, 2022 was a year of breakthroughs. Real estate brokerages We believe real estate will always need the consultative hand of brokers.