Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Dan’s professional IT services consultancy developed a SaaS product and now wants to grow and scale the product—but has little experience in marketing or selling SaaS products. Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. and see how your company compares. Seek existing middleware tools.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Prior to The Hive Southeast Asia, I was previously in a fund under MAVCAP and has worked in a Private Equity investment and consultancy firm based in Beijing, China, focusing on consumer, TMT and healthcare. Early-stage financing between RM500,000 to RM5 million. Additionally, can overseas headquartered startups get funding from you?

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

A lot of my work as a consultant involves helping founders come up with a good fundraising story, but a surprising number of founders seem to get stuck on the next step: Finding the right investors and landing a meeting to pitch their companies. Are you in finance, healthcare, consumer hardware or climate tech?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. Marketers work with finance and product teams to formulate projections as the company moves into the clinical phase. Forecasting.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Relationships may occur with potential employees, mentors, consultants, suppliers, and customers. If you have a low credit score, work to improve it in anticipation of one day needing outside financing. Along your entrepreneurial journey, you may never know when a prior contact becomes valuable to your business building.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Cloverleaf will use the new financing to further support organizations by extending its core automated coaching solution into even more areas of professional development for everyone in the enterprise. This round brings Cloverleaf’s total funding raised to $20 million to date. In 2023, Cloverleaf achieved recognition on the Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Healy Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. As part of the finance consulting team at Kruze , I’ve worked with many startups that needed to extend their runways and realign their spending — many of them drastically.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

She’s been an entrepreneur, served on plenty of boards, is a contributing author at Marie Clare, has been a senior advisor to Bumble and worked as a consultant in marketing, business development and more. With all that experience, she knows all too well that the process of fundraising starts well before your first pitch meeting.

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Gust

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It was just a few minutes into the pitch. Honestly, I was really liking the people, the market, the secret sauce, and just about all of that pitch until they got to the financials. “We don’t like those numbers either,” he said, “they were done for us by an outside financial consultant. You need a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

” 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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Asset managers, banks and other financial institutions need to calculate their financed CO2 emissions footprint in a manner that is auditable and compliant with both the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) methodologies. Leading the round were Prelude Ventures and TPG Rise Climate.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A few months ago, he blasted out cold emails to pitch an intrapreneurship class. He earned an MBA by cramming on the weekends, then just had to start something entirely new, the strategy consulting firm Outglocal. Pinto has other side hustles in real estate – all this on top of his consulting firm. He was hooked on side hustles.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

There, they share pitch materials and information about their business. The founder gets a detailed assessment with feedback on their pitch materials, the underlying metrics that they can use to develop their business and, their ability to raise capital down the line. The CEO who studied finance and investment banking in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

sanctions on China for startups in the space, considerations for startups thinking of taking capital from government bodies, how to pitch these investors and more. Clearly, CFIUS continues to have important implications on venture financing across all sectors. Are you open to cold pitches? Are you open to cold pitches?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. So, if you’re a female founder faced with the prospect of pitching to VCs — what steps can you take to set yourself up for success? Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. Fundraising. Recruiting.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Al Lijee , CEO, TowGator Invite Critiques with Reverse Pitching A unique approach I’ve found effective in determining the viability of a new business idea is what I call “reverse pitching.” This foresight helps me to invest in ideas that have the room to grow and adapt in the ever-changing market landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product. 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. They don’t have enough billable hours to be able to really understand what you do or effectively pitch it. Some final thoughts on PR.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This round follows a Series A round raised in February , and brings the company’s total financing to $70 million, CEO and founder Nick Reber told TechCrunch. Reber’s pitch is that, already, companies are facing mounting healthcare costs and risk losing talent if they cut employee benefits. . What’s the sell on that for employers?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Kruze Consulting, an accounting firm for startups, mined through over 750 companies’ finances, which includes upward of $300 million in quarterly revenue and over $750 million in quarterly spend. And if 2023 isn’t the year of the bottom line, I don’t know what else it could be. Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. According to data published from Morning Consult and Verizon in their September 2020 report, “more than two in five decision makers say it is likely that their business will expand through digital technologies and rely more heavily on communications.”

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. Fundraising. Recruiting.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We are setting up the following process: every time a company mails us their pitch or further information, we send to a special email, e.g., inbound(@)versatilevc.com. The best predictor for failed Salesforce implementation is whether or not the firm uses a consultant with real experience of private equity to setup and maintain the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier. We had a specific goal in mind. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf , which last July raised $150 million at triple its previous valuation ($4.3 billion), opted for all debt in its latest funding round. “Security isn’t solely a tools or staffing problem — it is an operational problem. .”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Maybe your strength is the economy or finances? Have regular communication with your publicist to work together on pitches and story angles. Doubet Consulting. Do they know your strengths? Your publicist should be able to highlight and leverage your strengths, yet shy away from weaknesses or help you strengthen them.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge , a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why “ women-owned startups are a better bet ”. Less need for a belief in breakthrough technology.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

She turned down multiple term sheets, and didn’t use a pitch deck. In the future Mos will create a suite of products that students can pay to access, such as more hands-on advisor consultations or specific banking features. There’s also no minimum balance required in order to open a Mos account. “Our

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Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Many local angel investment groups work with a local event that creates the illusion of a business pitch contest, awarding investment to the winner. It’s not just a one-time pitch or plan contest. They’ve heard multiple pitches, poured over business plans, talked to customers, and looked at the legal work. Local media cover it.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. They offer a Business Consortium Fund whereby you can get a loan and consulting services tailored for your business. Website: [link].

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