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The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

This is going to be BIG.

No VC on the face of the earth has a magical Good Deals Only stream of opportunities. There are places that founders frequenteverything from demo days to meetups to sponsored dinners to coffee gatherings. The presentations are largely a formality. After 20 years of doing this, I have some thoughts Finding great deals is hard.

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Crimson Founders Brings MIT & Harvard-Affiliated Startups to UAE’s Thriving Innovation Landscape

American Entrepreneurship

Crimson Founders, a global platform dedicated to connecting MIT and Harvard-affiliated startups with investors, strategic partners, and expansion opportunities, has successfully concluded The Crimson Collective Week 1.0 in the United Arab Emirates.

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15 Innovative Pitch Deck Designs That Drove Investor Engagement

StartupNation

Learn from the best as expert insights illuminate the path to creating presentations that resonate and drive engagement. During our Series A round, I replaced traditional bar graphs with dynamic visuals that investors could manipulate during the presentation. I treated the product demo as a live slide.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. We’ve got a lot of focus on presenting one-to-one advice that is very practical, very focused on commercial success, very focused on operational success. James Burnes: Absolutely.

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NJEDA Board Approves Two Programs to Advance New Jersey’s Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

American Entrepreneurship

AI presents a tremendous economic opportunity for New Jersey, poised to create good-paying jobs, catalyze new discoveries, grow our start-up community, and foster long-term economic growth, said Governor Murphy.

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Sales Best Practices vs. Intuition in Startups

StartupNation

Using product or service descriptions with the expectation that a “demo” is going to generate sales is a fool’s errand. During our research, we identified more than 50 companies where the founders proudly declared they have done “more than one hundred demos.” Every single company that rushed to demo eventually closed the business.

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Top 5 AI Tools Every Small Business Should Try in 2025

American Entrepreneurship

Five top AI tools are presented that have directly increased the productivity of staffs and departments of small businesses. Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or managing a growing team, integrating AI tools can significantly reduce manual workloads and unlock new growth opportunities.

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