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JUNE 17, 2024

If you want mine, I’m doing a little consulting now. ) While I’m mostly coaching VCs these days, I’m doing a little bit of fundraising consulting here and there and I’m happy to be helpful if I can before you’re ready to go out. Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. (

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MAY 4, 2021

Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. I explained that this wasn’t really a pitch because it lacked all sorts of context. He went off to go recruit a team of aviation experts—people who had consulted on and built serious vehicles and projects.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It is a consultative sale. Don’t confuse that with hiring “consultants&# who make terrible sales people. But a consultative sale means you need somebody comfortable working with a lack of defined structure, process or product. And you need to watch them pitch. They need to watch and gauge customer reactions.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

The answer to how you in particular should spend your time is twofold: Consult with your investors, advisors, and peers and where they thing you need to focus your energy--and get on the same page about the balance between near term and long term goals. I tried pitching business development ideas, coming up with marketing ploys.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. More and more of our best and brightest are learning to code and/or joining the ranks of innovative startup companies instead of working for banks and consulting firms. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. There is no fork.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

His story of overcoming child abuse, a missing arm ligament, a decade in the minors and going on to reinvent himself in his mid-30's using a pitch few have mastered is nothing short of inspirational. Oh, did I mention it turns out he's been pitching with a torn abdominal muscle all season?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I pitched Gus twice and he told me no both times. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. Much bad came out of this period including my cynicism for consultants. the owners of Andersen Consulting). Let me explain.

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JUNE 13, 2012

He oozed a quiet confidence--like a baseball pitcher who had all his stuff working and knew exactly in his head the pitch he was going to finish you off with. No need to get worked up about it--it was just about executing what you had in your head, like he had done on each pitch before during this game. (A The answer: it wasn't.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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. Some final thoughts on PR.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Were their consultants? They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. Triangulate. Who else was involved with the decision? Do you have friends on the inside? Low numbers are sexy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Were their consultants? They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. Triangulate. Who else was involved with the decision? Do you have friends on the inside? Low numbers are sexy.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 19, 2021

The elevator pitch as we know it today comes from Hollywood. An aspiring screenwriter would corner an unsuspecting executive in an elevator and pitch his/her concept during the time it took to go one floor. If the executive liked the pitch they would stay on until their floor. That’s not an elevator pitch. Where to begin?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Anyway, I spent the first part of my career consulting for large companies. Accenture always had a chip on it’s shoulder in strategy consulting – especially compared with McKinsey, BCG and Bain. We were Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) and our core skills were in building large-scale IT systems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

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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MARCH 14, 2024

You can check out the teaser on the Open Office Hours site and stay tuned for full interviews with Sakib Jamal, Jenny Fielding, Jerry Neuman, Lucy Deland, Joe Eagan, and Ben Sun to be posted in the nextNYC weekly newsletter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You need a solid business plan, traction to demonstrate market fit, and the skills to pitch effectively. Don’t neglect ongoing investor relations “A lot of startup founders think that the only way investors will respond favorably is if they provide their best pitch on first contact,” said Mohammadi.

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MAY 5, 2011

Businessguy Bob On the other hand, having a 35 year veteran of the management consultant consulting industry doesn't mean automatic business success when your industry is being highly disrupted by technology this person doesn't even use. Don't let the fanboys distract you from business 101.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. Over time as I became more senior at Andersen Consulting I had more resources to take taxis everywhere. We’ll see. TechStars Interactions. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. The Subway.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

“Our teams that rely on trying to hire outsourced engineers or consultants or whatever to build their product tend to move much slower than folks with a technical founder,” he added. Pitch deck teardown: Minut. If you’d like to see your pitch deck featured on TechCrunch+, click through for details.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

My husband and I are also pitching a second Weird Homes Tour book with all of the cities in it. Pinterest has forever changed our consultation game. Nothing will ever replace an in-person, customized consultation where a professional can feel your hair, assess the damage and recommend the correct products for you to use.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 7, 2021

Namely, guest lecturing at schools, giving lectures and speeches, and consulting for institutes and companies to help solve their most intractable problems. And in the process of meeting these people, I’m constantly hearing pitches, proposals, business plans, and product ideas. Use them or rather, ignore them at your own peril.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 24, 2021

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., My consulting firm has used them with over 100 companies. Also, check out Real Simple Business , where Barry shares his successful business secrets. But the No.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Let’s say that your ideal clients are CEOs of mid-market companies that need your consulting services. In other words, where do they congregate, what do they read, and what are their interests? If you want to catch tuna, you have to go to the ocean, not your local creek. Where can you find them?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. Even if you are lucky enough to land a meeting, it’s more likely that a junior person went through your pitch and ran it up the chain. According to Fisher, the pro forma pitch deck is a thing of the past. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The product turns what used to be a manual process that involved outside consultants and roughly 150 hours of work into a job that can be done in 30 minutes, according to the cove.tool. Companies like Procore have become billion-dollar businesses on the back of their pitch to simplify the construction management process.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Written for EO by Nico Prins, a communications consultant who specializes in internet marketing. . You need not only a few focused hours to craft the article, but you’ll need the bandwidth to pitch ideas to editors and follow up on queries. Nico Prins is a business consultant and the founder of Launch Space.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. I was living in entrepreneurial adventure mode: I was doing freelance consulting and advisory to a business here, investing in a web3 gaming startup there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. Raymond Chou—founder and CEO at Infront Consulting.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

If a customer is not looking to adopt your product, there may still be consulting work your team can do. Founders planning near-term fundraising rounds need to understand that an economic downturn is one of the most difficult times to pitch to investors. Again, survival is key. How much runway should you have?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

The alternative to (or in addition to) Harvey Balls is the 2×2 matrix – the ones so popularized by The Gartner Group (and every consultancy out there). So I know that no company pitching us actually says it this harshly but the disdain for your competitor is often felt in the word choices and how you position them.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Steve Zalewski Contributor Share on Twitter Steve Zalewski is the former CISO of Levi Strauss and the founder of S3 Consulting, an executive advisory practice to security companies and VC firms on product-market-fit and go-to-market strategy for security startups. How does your solution help me sell more X?

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APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Most of the decks I’m seeing these days, both through my consulting practice and through the pitches submitted to TechCrunch, are a lot longer than the 11 slides Hour One used here.

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