StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Now imagine if you were given 10 minutes to pitch the potential of your business? It can take years to dream up an exciting startup, and even longer to turn it into something substantial, but a strongly crafted sales pitch can propel your business in the right direction. Related: 5 Terms That are Killing Your Startup’s Pitch.

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David Teten VC

MAY 2, 2020

But on the other side, I definitely recommend seeing what information others have made public. for their pitch deck. . Run the following searches on Google or another search engine: [company name] pitch deck. company name] pitch video. For each competitor, I suggest you do the following: Look on Angel.co

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million richer following the close of its series A funding led by the Los Angeles-based investment firm Mucker Capital and including previous investors Urban.us, Knoll Ventures and Atlanta’s own TechSquare Labs. Now the company is $5.7 “There’s a lot of product databases, but no one can analyze it,” said Chopson.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

By definition Angel Investors are individual investors. But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. This is in contrast to going it alone in direct investments or publicly traded REITs and stocks. Groups investing in multiple deals mean better diversification. By Tim Hoghten.

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Gust

OCTOBER 11, 2012

While you will definitely need to be a corporate entity before you can accept funding from any investor (or issue stock options to any employees), the specific corporate status of the venture at this stage is much less important to investors than its functional status.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare?

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David Teten VC

MAY 2, 2020

But on the other side, I definitely recommend seeing what information others have made public. for their pitch deck. . Run the following searches on Google or another search engine: [company name] pitch deck. company name] pitch video. For each competitor, I suggest you do the following: Look on Angel.co

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Last week, there was a Business Insider article measuring the percent of female founded companies that NYC seed funds invest in. The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching. In truth, that''s what''s actually driving my investments.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. of venture capital deals.

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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. Your investor has an investment thesis. That’s a problem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. How does this affect the investment landscape?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 29, 2016

You shouldn't, because it's still your fault they didn't invest. Assuming they weren't unethical and they met your character standard, you went into a pitch with the goal of getting money from this person, and they didn't get there. Getting an investment is very difficult thing. Same with pitching. How difficult?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I’ve made a bet that if a founder pitches me, whether or not I fund them, if I make the process worthwhile by telling them exactly why I couldn’t get there, they’re likely to recommend that other founders do the same. If there’s any one thing I’ve focused on in my VC career, it’s trying to give real, actionable feedback to founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, across all percentiles of fund performance, VC funds led by active founders outperformed those without that structure when comparing multiples on invested capital, according to the data. Now, let’s be clear, this data definitely doesn’t give a full picture.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Now over to CoreWeave, which landed a mega-round of $221 million in Series B investment , of which half came from lead investor Magnetar Capital. Here’s SIX more for you: Game on : Rita peels back the layers of Bitkraft Ventures’ vision to invest in Asian gaming startups. A Robust view of robotics : Robust.AI Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

But when it comes to learning all the complex ins and outs of building and launching a successful startup, more is definitely the way to go. Here’s another cool commonality: Day two of each bootcamp features a TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. You’ll tune in live to watch 10 global early-stage companies pitch to a panel of top VCs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. About Advantage Capital Advantage Capital is a leading impact investment firm with an emphasis on driving capital to underserved areas.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But IP can be difficult to protect during fundraising, because venture firms reviewing confidential pitch materials do not regularly sign NDAs as is traditional in other industries, and applicants lack leverage to push for them. This leaves Company A with the difficult choice of fighting a competitor in the marketplace or courtroom.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Both Wang and Levine were also able to provide some great feedback on decks submitted to our regular Pitch Deck Teardown segment, despite the fact that Levine actually never saw a pitch deck from Wang before investing (more on that later). Knowing when to bend the rules.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The round was led by Cherry Ventures, and includes participation by a number of angel investors including Algolia co-founder Nicolas Dessaigne, Twitter Director of Product Management Marie Outtier, and Wunderlist and Pitch co-founder Christian Reber. ” An example of MagicBell’s Notification inbox. .

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

VCs tend to invest larger sums of money than angel investors, but they also expect a higher return on their investment. Angel Investors: Angel investors are individuals who invest their own money in startups. Like VCs, they receive equity in exchange for their investment. Bottom Line: Startup fundraising can be tough?—?but

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The overlapping in job roles is uncanny: The best investors and founders have to find focus through the noise, understand the weight of due diligence and pitch others with conviction. Wu, who has investments in Plaid, Calm and Ritual, used anecdotes and exercises — such as the eyebrow test — in the tactical, engaging chat.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. If you’re talking with an investor competent enough that you’d want her to invest in you, that investor will also be competent enough to surface the negative information you’re trying to hide.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

I think it''s likely that it will unfocus the company and what it definitely does is eliminate the possibility of exiting for anything less than two and a half billion dollars. The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. But can''t I disagree with him on an investment?

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

In the second quarter of 2022, according to CB Insights, investment into fintech startups wasn’t too far behind that in the second quarter of 2022. That’s not far off from last year and signals that while, yes, fewer dollars are being invested generally, fintech is still attracting serious investor interest. Another thing.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

“Pre-Seed” is somewhat of a controversial term in the investing world, triggering reactions questions its validity, its effectiveness, and even its contribution. Ask 101 seed investors for their definition of “pre-seed” or the various phases in seed and you’ll get 101 answers. Some press showed up, too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

However, that’s what we’re seeing happen in the solo GP world, where investors, hearing about institutional investor risk appetite changing, are extending fundraising timelines, cutting investment vehicle targets or planning to leave venture altogether. No pitches, please. You can also send me tips at natasha.m@techcrunch.com

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

billion of invested capital, continuing a downward trend for both metrics and representing the lowest for both since Q4 2019.” bank JP Morgan chose to announce the launch of its healthcare venture capital practice , which will invest in early- to growth-stage companies in the space. Yet, November was also when U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Remember that we're lucky to be investing in your company, because ideas as good as yours don't come around too often, and that will change your approach as you try to gather your first check. We can debate whether they're sociopaths, but we definitely shouldn't assume that every "great investor" is "great" at being human.

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Gust

MAY 22, 2012

This is a good time to reflect on my experience with locally based angel investment. I just finished with the fourth of our annual angel investment event for my local group based in Eugene and Corvallis, Oregon. We try to make our investments as convertible debt. So is that a good way to invest money, you might ask?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s not actually surprising that investors bought into it, considering that for a long time, VCs have focused on one particular archtype of leader as being more worthy of venture investment than others—the bold, confident visionary who will talk big in the pitch meeting. you ever heard.

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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. Have declines in the public-market valuations of biotech companies impacted your investments in the sector? Are you open to cold pitches? Definitely.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

A definitive founder’s guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” Will record levels of dry powder trigger a delayed explosion of startup investment? Image Credits: Tim Robberts / Getty Images.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

Since there''s no way to both make yourself accessible and not get a fire hose of inbound, most of the pitches you''re going to have are from perfectly nice, smart people who have perfectly horrific, unworkable ideas. 2) People pitch you. In VC, no one''s investment gets bought on the first day, or the second day, or the third day.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Great entrepreneurs invest countless hours reinventing, reimagining and disrupting products and services of all kinds. Another entrepreneur told me how incredibly stressful it is for her to pitch her ideas in front of would-be investors. Definitely. Reinvention is the key to successful entrepreneurship.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Despite the process being relatively laborious, if you believe that your company has created a truly unique invention, then it’s definitely worth the investment. An investment for the future. During the pitching stage, your idea gets exposed to a wide audience.

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