Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Created by DocSend It’s clear that 2020 has thrown a wrench in the gears of startup fundraising; conferences are canceled, meetings are virtual and spontaneous, in-person investor/founder meet-and-greets are almost completely nonexistent. Founders can learn from the experience of other startups to best navigate this situation.

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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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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?” What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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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

JULY 6, 2021

In a recent Twitter thread , he highlighted common stories and narratives that startups can use, such as “challenging the way things have always been done” or “irreverence,” and came up with examples of companies that employ these tactics. You help startups do research to find and validate their strategic narrative.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the years I have heard countless stories from founders about high pressure situations that non-business owners simply do not encounter in the course of “normal” life – which of course is already filled with its own share of challenges and traumas. Everything else we do (our “What” – programmes, pitches, funding) is secondary.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“I definitely felt that when I would sprinkle my pitch with some of those words, it definitely resonated more, like you have to communicate that excitement is naturally amply balanced.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

According to Tsai, 2022 will see web3 going mainstream, more capital flowing to underestimated founders, and broader investments in regions that have traditionally been overlooked. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2013

But it isn’t easy to hire an executive of any sort (CEO, VP Marketing, VP of Sales, etc) because the executive hiring process is radically different from every previous hire in the startup’s life. By definition, these roles are management roles, not individual contributor roles so the tactical tests aren’t the right ones.

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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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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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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. Because, almost by definition, I’m going to tell you no. So I’m definitely not ageist in that regard.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Vilnius will definitely gain momentum as the tech startup city of the region. The number of startup people they employ will grow exponentially. And of course quite more foreign talent coming to Vilnius to work in startups! Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., Top are startup founders like J.

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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. My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. But then the truth sets in.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. Tracking the growth of low-code, no-code startups. ‘No code’ will define the next generation of software.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And the first thing we did is we called up startup founders in our network. And so if you can actually master the motion for the technology startup, what you know is that you can cover a wide range of scenarios. Waseem: Absolutely. So we started the company basically in January, 2017. Oh, nothing.

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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

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

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.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Us starting this business exactly at the time when Jio was coming big was definitely very lucky, right? And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.” But when you go and meet these founders, you understand what’s happening. They can’t afford brands. It has to be my own.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 1. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 2. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 3. Yes, Chief.

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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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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Seriously though, were there things you saw as a founder – or an angel investor in other people’s companies – that informed your own approach to venture now? Michael Mignano: Throughout my time building Anchor, I met and pitched many, many VCs. And that was definitely who I was during the Anchor days.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

A little over seven years ago, I set out to start a fund that looks to be an early and vocal supporter of those who are outside the innermost circles of the most powerful people in tech--since, by definition, New York City was beyond that circle. And make all the pitches. I did so from a position of privilege.

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