American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

From these proposals, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day during the Charmalot Annual User Conference, to be held Aug. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. CharmHealth will cover the costs for accommodations and meals of the short-listed candidates invited to the event.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Potential to DISRUPT business CISOs are accustomed to constant innovation. Be prepared to tell the CISO how your solution can be deployed alongside existing technologies without causing disruptions. The products that CISOs love are those that enable their team to easily test drive and see the value.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Plus, I interviewed Kevin Hart on the Disrupt stage. I’m thrilled to share that Haje Jan Kamps , a longtime reporter and the creator of our amazing Pitch Deck Teardown series, will be taking over Startups Weekly. Of course: It’s already Disrupt season. I love seeing early pitch decks and term sheets too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. Tune in a get ready to take notes — the advice you hear could help you improve your pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. For you, special price : Kyle reports that Enable lands $94 million to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs. News Drops from Disrupt. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 2.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Outplay helps them scale more easily with tools that automate campaigns, identifies the likeliest prospects and uses data to decide the right time to send pitches. The previous outbound sales tech disruption happened in 2011 when Outreach and Salesloft were founded. The company announced today it has raised $7.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022. TechCrunch editors and expert judges winnowed them down to the following five finalists who will be presenting in front of a whole new panel of judges on the last day of Disrupt, October 20, 2022: Advanced Ionics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A pitch deck is just part of the story, writes Matt Van Itallie, founder and CEO of codebase analytics company Sema. “Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. “Enable it on every account that you have.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. What emerged was “patent-pending hyper-soluble caffeine technology,” that enables VAE Labs to “significantly increase solubility of caffeine and liquid,” Bogdan said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

“Pando’s no-code capabilities enable business users to customize the apps while maintaining platform integrity — reducing the need for IT resources for each customization.” But Pando has a compelling sales pitch, judging by its momentum. The result of those major disruptions? billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

At any stage of investment, be it seed or a Series B, it’s necessary to include a slide in your pitch deck that explains the size of your market from three perspectives — TAM, SAM and SOM. Airbnb disrupted the hotel industry by imagining a technology that would enable homeowners to match up with travelers seeking a place to stay.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Register for TC Sessions: Justice to meet some of the visionary female founders who are part of the Black Female Founders organization and watch them take part in a live pitch feedback session with TechCrunch during the event. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

We've seen disruption by machines among all sorts of human labor, particularly in the area of "making stuff". We've certainly seen technology labor get disrupted by technology itself before. There are a few "app builders" out there for mobile, enabling anyone to create a basic content driven mobile application without touching code.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Its pitch is that by partnering with multiple lenders it can offer higher acceptance rates and lower fees to consumers so they have greater choice to spread payment for larger purchases. The Divido platform enables lenders to serve customers in this area with a compelling, well-managed proposition.”.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Incooling, which is pitching in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt , designed a custom-built server with a proprietary cooling system that it claims allows for superior thermal management, enabling the server to achieve high-efficiency standards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million. The end goal is to “enable financial freedom for everyone.” Maguire and Vasavada will also hear live pitches from startups in the audience and give their feedback.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 25, 2011

bre.ad , a new startup launching whose founder has perfected the art of the conference pitch. I was sitting at lunch at Techcrunch Disrupt in the middle of a bunch of people. No pitch, nothing more. You see, we hear a lot about elevator pitches, but to be honest, most short pitches really don't do your company justice.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Crafting a pitch deck that can’t be ignored. To find out what a pitch deck needs to stand out, Managing Editor Danny Crichton hosted a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt featuring Mar Hershenson, the founding MD of Pear VC; Mercedes Bent, a partner at Lightspeed, and Saba Karim, who heads the global startup pipeline at TechStars.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

AND NOW I'LL PRETEND THAT I WASN'T REALLY PITCHING AND I'LL BE ALL MODEST ABOUT IT. Let’s not just prove [HOW YOU'RE DISRUPTING AN INDUSTRY], but reinvent [OBVIOUS THING YOU'RE REALLY DOING].” Or ‘How do we think about going back to the past via a technology-enabled model?’ We are a technology-enabled [WHAT WE DO].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

James Allen , Founder, Billpin.com Transition to Remote Work When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, our startup faced an abrupt and disruptive shift. We used analytics, research, and experience to make informed decisions, enabling bold moves to increase our reach and visibility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. That’s a lot of lettuce, but the pricing shows how much tech-enabled DTC firms can flex, writes Alex Wilhelm, who compared Sweetgreen’s range to IPO pricing for Allbirds and Rent the Runway. and a valuation between between $2.5

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

All three of these companies are made up of female founders who are disrupting their respective spaces. The pitch prep work from our sponsors at NIH were helpful in crafting the message from experts in their field. I want to thank the NIH for the coaching they provided and helping us hone our pitch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. MoCap money tap : Haje is back with another Pitch Deck Teardown, this time of Rokoko’s $3 million strategic extension deck. Making a static waterfall dynamic : Wait until you see what Adobe will enable you to do with your photos , Kyle writes. PDT, subscribe here.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas. Secondly, he pointed to the Space industry, which has witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years, enabling greater access to space and the emergence of new business models driven by enhanced data and connectivity.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For example, last year I was building an app enabling small business owners in Haiti (my home country) to do their bookkeeping digitally. The first question has a strict yes/no answer, whereas the second enables the interviewee to share their genuine experience. Today it’s mostly done manually (pen and paper) if it’s done at all.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 9, 2016

Creating an elegant, disruptive, and new experience is one of the greatest attractions of founding a company. If you build a disruptive product in the woods and no one is around, does anyone buy it? The sales people have to pitch those advantages. Freemium products like Expensify disrupt bottoms up.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company claims its hardware could make it up to 100x faster and 10x cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing shipping containers, which — if accurate — might just enable Integrated Reasoning to make a splash in lucrative industries. – Kyle Wiggers. Flying for dummies.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. We see ourselves as a mix of cheerleaders, enablers (when it makes sense), sanity checks, and sounding boards. If you’re not confident pitching, you need to put on your big-person pants and git gud at it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For companies like Shop-Ware, the disruptive wake of COVID-19 has cleared a path to capital as mainstream investors have sought out startups with services and products needed in the pandemic era. It’s an easy pitch for the most part, the founder says. Until recently, its sole major investor was aftermarket automotive giant Bosch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

For later in the year, we’re pretty excited about this panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, where VCs will discuss how you can raise money when you’re not at one of the major tech hubs. It’s Thursday, May 26, 2022, and we have a busy day of news on the site today. Here are the gems sparkling in the spotlight of our journalistic gaze. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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