Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Only 10p goes to mixed-gender teams, and less than 1p goes to all-female teams?—?despite This is a great place to find support and connection, and a useful resource for information and feedback. Instead, use it to make wellbeing and self-care a priority, and avoid becoming another statistic. Don’t worry, you get used to it.)

entrepreneurs

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. A good beginning would be Bill Payne’s The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels, available as a free download from [link]. Understand your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. I use WordPress. They’re more light weight and easier to use. hen you need to decide whether to use the “hosted&# version or the “installed&# version. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Absofuckinglutely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3 “We were coming of age when everyone in college was using apps like Snapchat and Instagram,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

OK, this will be a test of whether using real curse words in your title or post gets all of your stuff blocked by spam filters or from appearing on HackerNews or the like. That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. I give direct, honest, blunt, polite and (I hope) useful feedback. Unsurprisingly, this one way best.

frameworks

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

We do the work of sorting through the pitch decks of everyone and their mother, finding the diamonds in the rough, helping them turn an idea into something that looks like a company—and we do it for a fraction of the management fees of our later stage counterparts. That’s not what seed funds are doing. Here’s a very plain vanilla model.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

There are a number of great examples of publicly available pitch materials, so draw from ones that you like the most. Mix in humor to show your personality. Consider a website that separately contains useful materials, depending on the cycle of your business. Rehearse your presentation. But, most importantly, be brief.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You're company might be trying to get to $500,000 or $3 million in sales, the principles Ryan uses can still work. In hindsight, a perfect mix of focus and a strong partnership. Marc Benioff uses this method with Salesforce. (If If you're looking for help with leadership in your company definitely check out Entre Leadership.).

leadership

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The startup up to now has been largely self-funded, and while Segal isn’t disclosing the valuation, he said it was definitely in the nine-figures (that is, somewhere in the large region of hundreds of millions of dollars). He said he’d just come from a business pitch with the airline in question.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.” ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B. In earlier decades, long before the Internet- and open banking-fuelled fintech boom, legacy banks would pitch to get a new crop of school leavers signed up by offering freebies — like bags, stationery, music or other offers.

energy

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

I asked 10 investors who actively and frequently back fintech startups a few questions such as what criteria they use when evaluating potential investments and what is the best way to pitch them. They even shared how you could pitch them, which if you’re a scrappy startup seeking funding, could be very valuable information.

financing

TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise’s self-driving tech by 2030. And if you enjoy mobility news, definitely subscribe to The Station , a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business. Why did Bill.com pay $2.5B

education

Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

That was the first one where I was like… whoa, okay, cool, there are companies using [Deel] that I love. "You Grant: We’re going to continue to make the core experience much better, and easier to use, and we’re going to continue to expand categories. We both had this perfect mix of logistics plus technology.

advice

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2011

A lot of baseball fans have the knuckleball fantasy--particularly guys like me who are over 30 that realize that this quirky pitch is their last ticket to play in the major leagues. We never developed the 98mph fastball--and it's unlikely that any amount of pounding a vat full of rice is going to get us there. founders every week.

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