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Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab hosts Global Demo Day of Disruptive Startups

American Entrepreneurship

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At The post Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab hosts Global Demo Day of Disruptive Startups appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Why Investors Say No - Three Startup Pitch Mistakes That Are Easy to Fix

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Red Flag #1: Trendy Buzzwords Red Flag #2: Superlative Overuse Red Flag #3: Words that shall not be spoken Red Flag #1: Buzzword Bingo Founders often throw around words like “disrupt”, “revolutionize” and other trendy buzzwords in their pitch. Consider, many customers don’t actually want to be “disrupted”.

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Disruptive Technology Startups Selected for Morgan Stanley’s Inclusive Ventures Lab

American Entrepreneurship

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

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Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

This is going to be BIG.

After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. So I went--the only investor at the time to actually hangout during the pizza and hacking part of the hackathon, not just the demos.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

The ones above are the ones I’ve prioritized this year (other than Disrupt – I never seem to get invited to that one). Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets.

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There are only a few spots left in Startup Alley at TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

We have only a few spots left to exhibit in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23). Schedule and host livestream product demos, tutorials or Q&A sessions. TechCrunch staff and thousands of Disrupt attendees from across the globe. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at Disrupt 2021?