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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Mishra says that Prezent.ai

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” She turned down multiple term sheets, and didn’t use a pitch deck. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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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. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. Will Yumi — and its ChatGPT-inspired tech for that matter — get ahead of the pack to nab a slice of it? Only time will tell.

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

TechCrunch

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Moussouris, who runs consultancy firm Luta Security, now advises companies and governments on how to talk to hackers and what they need to do to build and improve their vulnerability disclosure programs. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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Breaking Down a Typical VC/Startup Diligence Process

Tomasz Tunguz

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? Pitch-it-myself test : I stop a few partners in the office and give them the pitch to test their reactions. How might a startup disrupt this market? I do the same with my wife. After the term sheet: After the term sheet is signed, the lawyers step in.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

14:20 – At what point did they shift entirely away from consulting? We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? What we didn’t want to fall into was the trap of building something that was a consulting company. We lost that battle.