TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising event last week, Norwest Venture Partners ‘ Lisa Wu took the stage to discuss how founders can think like venture capitalists in all facets of their business. Pitch deck or pitch blurb? And so, it’s just up to the founders to really just tell the story to us.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Our participation in Anchor ( later acquired by Spotify ) generated both a return and a friendship between us and the founders. Specifically I’ve had the chance to spend meaningful time over the years with Michael Mignano as he went from startup CEO to Executive/Angel Investor and now VC Partner at Lightspeed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. We’ve got a session for it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: DocSend At DocSend , we spend a lot of time analyzing the data behind what it takes for startup founders to market their ideas, land meetings with VCs, and in turn source and close deals?—?from The graph above shows a definite point of diminishing returns when contacting LPs, somewhere around 60–70.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Investing based on the startup’s heuristics. Winning many pitch competitions and hackathons does not automatically mean that a startup is good. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money? What are the top 3 questions that you always ask the founders? Sustainability is definitely an area to look at.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship. And many of the best women founders. My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Unless you’re a former CIO who already has a clear understanding of the decision-making process, you can only fall back on basic best practices that usually result in a generic sales pitch: “How do you do, fellow CIOs?” Over timer founders and sales teams who adopt this mindful approach can turn customers into assets, says Khan.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Marc’s Lore: Startup Schemes, Utopian Dreams. Billionaire Marc Lore sold his startup to an everything store, twice. After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 2. Yes, Chief.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Despite their varied backgrounds, each panelist agreed that it’s important for founders who aren’t from privilege or wealth to understand and accept that systemic bias is real. And because Silicon Valley touts itself as a meritocracy, the gap between expectation and reality can create cognitive dissonance. .” ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

I’d argue that pivots are more important to track than a financing round because they give a snapshot of a startup reacting to a new tension in the market. Plus, unlike a funding round, a pivot is a definite signal that something is changing, a tension other than a cadre of investors affirming that a founder is onto something big.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. API startups are so hot right now. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool. Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

In the interview below, he explains why and how startups should work on this from their very early days. TechCrunch is asking founders who have worked with growth marketers to share a recommendation in this survey. Laja is the founder of several marketing and optimization businesses: CXL , Speero and Wynter.

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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. Oh boy — definitely an exercise in storytelling. Advertising? Raising investment? Isn’t this just marketing?

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Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. Practice your message. Even bad coverage is better than no coverage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

With a product advisory council (PAC) , early-stage startups can tap into the their users’ hive mind. But to build one, founders must first define clear goals and create value for participants. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So the first startup was technology that could apply software updates without rebooting. Waseem: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A rose by any other name : “Ad,” “Sponsored,” whatever you want to call it, Google is making it so when you perform a mobile search, you will definitely know if it is some sponsored content or an organic search result. DIY: 5 ways disruptive component startups can win over OEMs. Ivan has more. You can sign up here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. The best company pitches are those that have this narrative. Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. Jone Vaituleviciute , partner, Startup Wise Guys. Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., investors, founders, lawyers, designers, etc.)? Founders: Justas Janauskas, Milda Mitkut ? The number of startup people they employ will grow exponentially.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Intellectual Property Definition Intellectual property is any type of property that is not physical. It can also be your customer list, a price list, methods of manufacturing a product, taglines and sales pitches, suppliers for parts, and many other things. Startup founders often file patents before raising money.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2013

After the investment closed, the founders wanted to renege on that part of the agreement , but the board asked the duo to meet some of the valley’s top CEOs. During the early stages of a startup, founders perfect the art of hiring individual contributors, employees who are hired to accomplish particular tasks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. I guess if you do more than one, I guess by definition, that’s serial. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 18, 2019

If you watched Shark Tank in early August last year, you’d have seen two entrepreneurs hoping the ground would open up and swallow them when pitching their camping tent startup to a group of investors. As business founders and owners, we have an innate and absolute sense of the value of what we’ve created. Who are you?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

What have tech leaders been telling people they needed to do in order to be great founders and to build great things? To me, that doesn't mean "donating" my time to meet with underrepresented founders as a charity. No current founders, pls. Move fast and break things. Don't ask for permission. Run through walls.

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