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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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Pitching In The Big Leagues: An Inside Look At Series A Fundraising

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Investors are well aware of what’s at stake in this stage of a startup’s development and expect to sign term sheets only for the cream of the crop. When raising a Series A, it’s recommended to create a data room that can feature your main deck and support documents that can tell a more holistic story of how your company is doing.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

This simplicity is of course shrouded in the complexity of biology, and demands that biotech companies thoughtfully de-risk existential concerns throughout the drug development lifecycle. One powerful avenue is through the use of an exceptionally well-curated, comprehensive, and accessible virtual data room (VDR)! key in vivo data results).

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Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

TechCrunch

AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads.

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From Plan to Benevolent World Domination with the KISS Canvas

Paul G. Silva

Over the past six years, and with great help, I’ve developed the Keep It Super Simple (KISS) Canvas to help innovators find and mitigate some of their biggest risks, from ideation to scaling. A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution.

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How to get your business funded by a venture capitalist or angel investor

Founder Bounty

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Knowing who your target investors are and what they are looking for can help you tailor your pitch and increase your chances of getting funded.

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Scrintal raises $1 million for its visual collaboration tool

TechCrunch

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.