TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 — the first in-person Disrupt in three years — is in the books. During the first two days of Disrupt, the companies pitched before judges — multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders — for a chance to win $100,000 and the coveted Battlefield Cup. One startup emerged victorious.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Some thousands of pitch decks later, he looks for the following key questions and points to be addressed in founder pitch decks: Who is your customer? Not having an appropriate framework by which to evaluate the opportunity. As angels we get pitched ideas from all over the place. Client segments? How do we solve it?

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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

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sequoia hosted a private, sponsored AMA for founders in Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley at the virtual Disrupt SF last month. So now the week you’re pitching them, they feel like the pace is too high, so the bar is now higher than it was a week ago. It was good stuff, so we wanted to share. There is a lot of randomness.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this article aimed at early-stage founders, Kolluri shares a detailed framework with timelines that can help determine whether it’s time to look for a buyer or keep reaching for the stars. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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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. The iPhone meant that a ton more devs needed to learn all sorts of new code, without the benefit of having prior frameworks and shortcuts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Among them is Minerva Lithium , a University of North Carolina at Greensboro spinoff that has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel and extracts critical materials from brine in just three days.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Next week is Disrupt, so the TechCrunch Slack watercooler is full of sartorial advice, much to our surprise and confusion. Oh, and Haje has written more than 20 Pitch Deck Teardowns over on TC+ — and he’s running low on decks to review. PDT, subscribe here. Beep boop, here we go again with another exciting week in tech.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

We have guidelines within our investment framework. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas. We find that deviating away from our investment thesis opens us to more mistakes in our due diligence.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. The new framework benefits consumers and sellers, but for the region’s startups, “it opens the door to a plethora of opportunities and new business models, from payments to credit.” Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week! Walter Thompson.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Telling your story isn't just about conveying information about your company--it's about giving someone a framework that makes them feel like they know how to be successful as well. AND NOW I'LL PRETEND THAT I WASN'T REALLY PITCHING AND I'LL BE ALL MODEST ABOUT IT. Otherwise, who cares? The audience will relate to you better.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The European Union also recently presented a platform worker reform — saying at the end of last year that it would establish a framework to tackle bogus self employment. How Europe has expanded its bid to disrupt Big Tech. “In these kind of associations you need to work both at local and global levels,” she adds.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

Business : In some form, I walk through the Business Model Generation framework: value proposition, key activities, key partners, major assets, channels of distribution, customer segments, cost structure and revenue streams. How might a startup disrupt this market? How do they interact with each other? Are they passionate?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.” ” Bonfire.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. Collab Capital. —– TinySeed.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. Collab Capital. —– TinySeed.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” Deep research and quantitative frameworks are sorely lacking in today’s short attention span news approach. billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. They generally don’t seek to disrupt, or seek to create, or seek to invent. If you’re between the ages of 15 and 35, it’s really cool and you might be able to get a job doing it. I believe that it will.

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