This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I've written about this before , but if you can build a relationship with someone through sports, books, and various cultural interests without the pressure of each person trying to get something explicitly professional out of it. 4) Share your hobbies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Unlike other business owner communities, people aren’t joining to pitch you on their company’s products or services, so you can build real relationships and help one another. I also struggled with creating a cohesive culture between different tiers of the organization. I now spend more time working on my business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. “Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn’t understand the culture.” He said that. And he said it so elequently.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. We started to build a casual relationship then.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Due to COVID-19, the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium has partnered with the Invest Midwest Venture Capital Forum to present the virtual Midwest Venture Showcase. It will highlight Midwest companies seeking early stage funding and offer an opportunity to connect with founders, angel investors and venture capitalists.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Initially aspiring to work in the events industry to organize music festivals, Triet gained valuable experience at non-profit organizations like The Dallas Entrepreneur Center and later at Capital Factory, a Texas-based accelerator fund. Breaking into venture capital has been a remarkable and challenging journey.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. In his discussion on tactics to help take companies from “$100 Million to $1 Billion” Scott emphasized the importance of team and culture.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. I have also heard it referred to as a “narrative deck” — basically a detailed, written version of your pitch. Gaetano Crupi. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Founders need to ask themselves what really matters to their business, and which benefits best align with their cultural values,” says Anitra St. Marco DeMeireles and Allan Jean-Baptiste, co-founders and GPs, Ansa Capital. Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 million seed deck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nichols is intimately acquainted with the topic — as a founding managing partner of MaC Venture Capital (nee Cross Culture Ventures), he has been involved in helping more than 100 early-stage startups receive seed funding. Marlon Nichols will be joining us to discuss securing seed funding.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. 2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. ” And, surely, it “can” work. We won’t get into that here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a Black social media founder, Terrell has observed the way that Black cultural contributions are ripped off or overshadowed , while white creators get credit for creating dances or memes that they had nothing to do with. Leading the investment are MaC Venture Capital and Kapor Center, with participation from Sunset Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Hiring continues to be one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and those early employees can define the trajectory, culture and eventual success of it. Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65 billion, according to PitchBook; though an about 47.9%

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This was a fantastic strategy in terms of impact, raising the bar for startup excellence in key startup ecosystems and opening up access to the Venture Capital financing market to founders who couldn’t or didn’t want to relocate to the Bay Area.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The venture capital market is on a tear , pumping capital into a host of startups around the world. It’s generally considered a great time to raise capital and build a technology-centered, disruptive business. For some, that is. ” Norman asked TechCrunch rhetorically before supplying his own answer: No.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

I think about that when I do my job as a venture capitalist. My job basically revolves around strangers and technology--letting people I've never met that wind up in my inbox come into my office to pitch. —they’re the ones who fell into the most routine.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. This is the pitch, at least if you’re a promising male. This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.” Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. Boulder, Colorado. If you’re not ready to talk corporate yet, there are more than a dozen other accelerators to visit.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. TechCrunch sat down with Williams to learn more about how he got into venture capital, and his plans for the future. When did you first become interested in venture capital? While growing up, I had no idea what venture capital was.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

I’ve heard pitches from many life science companies with deeply credentialed and innovative technical founders with absolutely no business expertise on the team. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory. It’s a red flag that drama is consuming the company while its mission is mostly sidelined.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Company Culture Many founders underestimate the importance of having a healthy company culture. They also do not realize how their values and behavior greatly influence the culture that emerges as the company grows. Sri shares how he changed the culture of Kenmore Brands to re-brand Kenmore for the digital economy of the future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We took some highlights from the session and chatted with a couple more partners to dive deeper into what founders need to know — how to ask for help, fundraising principles, how to build company culture and more. So now the week you’re pitching them, they feel like the pace is too high, so the bar is now higher than it was a week ago.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Greg Kubin is a partner at PsyMed Ventures and co-host of Business Trip. As a venture firm that invests in psychedelics, we receive hundreds of pitches every month from founders developing psychedelic therapeutics. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

With all that experience, she knows all too well that the process of fundraising starts well before your first pitch meeting. How to Get An Investor’s Attention (Marlon Nichols, MaC Venture Capital). How to Nail Your Virtual Pitch Meeting (Melissa Bradley, Ureeka). Building and Leading a Sales Team (Ryan Azus, Zoom CRO).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

For MaC Venture Capital founder Marlon Nichols, it’s an ability that’s helped him spot big names like Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool early on. For us, that means taking a look at emerging behavioral trends and shifts in culture. Timestamp: 4:33).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface. It is all possible, but patience is key. Think of the worst-case scenario.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Hiring your first employees into a startup is storytelling: You are spinning a story that contrasts their steady, reliable job at an established company, pitching it against taking a chance on your startup. Telling the origin story of your company is part of the culture that underpins everything. You create the right culture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pitching a startup to investors without a personal recommendation isn’t a terrible idea — as long as you’ve done your research first. Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors. A love letter to micro funds, the backbone and future of venture capital. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Connie notes that the market might be slowing, but venture capital firms are continuing to amass big funds, as we also saw S2G Ventures do today. Well, hello there! On with the news! Connie tells you why.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Honorable mentions: Australia’s Fertilis raised $2M to automate IVF embryo culturing. Even for the nerdiest of us, though, the decentralization of regulation, money and culture is hard to keep up with — which makes our upcoming event even more exciting. Data show 2021 was a bonkers, record-setting year for venture capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Mercedes Bent , partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Jai Das , co-founder, president and partner, Sapphire Ventures. To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions. It partners with entrepreneurs in funding their growth stories through innovative market access and public venture capital strategies. We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. From a cultural perspective, I grew up on a diet of Hollywood culture and movies and TV shows. What is your pitch to employers to tell them to come to Solano County? And I think there were two influences.

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