TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with what it means to be an early-stage founder pitching your vision: You have to have Elon Musk-level ambition, big dreams and the ability to sell a company to investors before there are any real metrics behind it. Of course: It’s already Disrupt season.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

We’re encouraged to think of pitch meetings as a trial by fire: If an entrepreneur can negotiate deadly traps and slay the doubt monsters that bedevil tech investors, they’ll be rewarded with a golden SAFE note at the end of their quest. It’s either going to be too large or too small.”. pic.twitter.com/9mAzoEiF7Z.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

From today until midnight on May 18 (PT), we’re offering a free Disrupt Innovator pass (a $99 value) to anyone who purchases an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place virtually September 21-23. Learn more about this year’s Disrupt event here. . When will I get my free Disrupt pass?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s free to attend, and it’s free to submit your Minneapolis-area startup to the pitch-off competition. Just like every TechCrunch Live event, the program features entrepreneurs and investors who will share their stories with the goal of helping others build better venture-backed businesses. I hope you can make it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! At Disrupt , you’ll rub virtual elbows with the thousands of startup founders, investors and innovators building cutting-edge products and companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

anyway), but it’s never too early to start planning for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 , which takes place on September 21-23. This all-virtual conference allows makers, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors from around the world to connect, collaborate and grow. What’s new and different about exhibiting in Startup Alley at Disrupt 2021?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Fundraising is a huge part of building a successful startup, and whether you’re looking for information about the latest trends, alternative funding or how to fine-tune your pitch to attract investors, you’ll find that and a whole lot more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Crafting a Pitch Deck that Can’t Be Ignored.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Apply here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

Pascal was a tech entrepreneur before there was even a web browser. As co-founder at Radical Ventures and Singularity University ’s chair for entrepreneurship and open innovation, Pascal is focused on creating new business models for success and positively embracing disruption. Words to live—and learn—by. It is not complicated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

“Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. Getting the details right in your pitch deck.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Tickets for live pitch event now available. The fund’s portfolio companies have raised about $191 million so far as they scale and disrupt industries.” Visit www.thesdangels.com to see how SDAC helps entrepreneurs and angel investors “get to yes!”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

For me, after nearly a decade in the trenches of being an entrepreneur I felt I was un-brainwashed from trying to pretend I had all the answers. Any true disruption will change all the rules. The more self-assured the VC is and the more impressionable the entrepreneur is the worse the outcome. It is unknowable.

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Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Later in the pitch, you can show that you are not a one-trick pony by prioritizing related solutions in your long-term plan. Invested Interests entrepreneur focus startup'

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now that you have said subscription, head on over to Haje ’s story about your pitch deck needing an operating plan. In this environment, entrepreneurs should build decision trees that can help them manage 36 months of runway, recommends Gaetano Crupi, partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What advice would you give to entrepreneurs and professionals looking to finance their business? Angel investors or venture capitalists will require that entrepreneurs sell shares (equity) of their companies for investment. Another great route for social entrepreneurs is Kiva , which provides low-interest loans.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. With entrepreneurs from over 20 countries, across 25 industries and diverse backgrounds, our inaugural 200 class was showcased the best and brightest! Just apply here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. From day one, Station F has always been about making life easier for entrepreneurs,” Station F director Roxanne Varza said at the launch event earlier today. Launch is a new way to become an entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2023

As I learned, along with my colleagues Mary Ann Azevedo and Christine Hall, entrepreneurs feel fatigue. As our interviews tell us, OpenAI is clearly changing things for edtech entrepreneurs, and at large, asking them to ask much harder questions, ironically enough. Of course: It’s already Disrupt season. No pitches, please.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Great entrepreneurs invest countless hours reinventing, reimagining and disrupting products and services of all kinds. Another entrepreneur told me how incredibly stressful it is for her to pitch her ideas in front of would-be investors. Reinvention is the key to successful entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The application window for Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 slams shut in just one week. Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in 7 days The elite SB 200 cohort debuted last year at Disrupt 2022, and it consisted of entrepreneurs from more than 20 countries and 25 industries. We think not.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

Through the Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth provides a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, students, nonprofits and philanthropists to share groundbreaking ideas with the investors, incubators and partners who can bring them to market and effectively advance care. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. CEO of CharmHealth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

We’re pleased to announce that Disrupt , TechCrunch’s annual flagship conference, will feature a new stage this year: the AI Stage. The AI Stage will feature experts from across the AI landscape , including ethicists, entrepreneurs and investors enmeshed in developments around AI and machine learning technologies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Then you’ll want to refer the top early-stage startups in your portfolio/pipeline Rolodex to Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023! It’s also the absolute best way for an entrepreneur to get the most out of Disrupt 2023 — with a guaranteed free demo space on the show floor and the chance to win $100,000 in equity-free funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. These are companies like hardware maker Native Instruments, which launched the Sounds.com marketplace last year, and there’s also Arcade by Output that’s pitching a similar service. . Splice is also pleased to announce that Kakul Srivastava has joined the company’s board.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

Why is it ready for disruption? Many entrepreneurs pitching err on the side of too much information. Entrepreneurs literally started asking for billion-dollar valuations just because the market is talking about unicorns. How will you stand out from the masses of other people pitching. Why is it a really big market?

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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. In this environment, every entrepreneur should be fluent with their key metrics. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. And maybe one of your subscription boxes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

It’s time to dig deep and take advantage of an unparalleled opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. In a classic, “but wait, there’s more” moment, 20 of those 200 — the best of the best — compete for TechCrunch’s $100,000 equity-free prize, as judged by TechCrunch editors, top VCs and entrepreneurs. Heck yeah we did!

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Knock this easy task off your to-do list now, and come September, join a global gathering of more than 10,000 startup founders, makers, investors and entrepreneurs.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss How to build businesses that withstand the AI revolution Why your pitch is making your startup seem too magical P.S. If you’re deep in the entrepreneurial trenches and have a story to tell, we’d love to read it (and publish it). Aaron Dinin, PhD has seen a pitch or two.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022: Taking the BS Out of Your TAM. Next week at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, I’ll host a discussion with three investors to find out how they think about TAM and what they’re looking for during a pitch: Kara Nortman, managing partner, Upfront Ventures. TechCrunch Disrupt 2022.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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