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

JUNE 2, 2021

This very cool and downright extraordinary business development opportunity kicks off in July and takes you through TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23). That support includes these three masterclasses on essential entrepreneurial topics: Key Principles of the Lean Startup Methodology with John Lynn, founder of CELA Innovation .

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

There is an array of capital sources that entrepreneurs can approach to finance the growth of their companies, including crowdfunding, government grants, and pitch competitions, which typically would not require giving up any ownership (equity) of their business. Check out this talk from the guru of innovation, Clayton Christensen. .

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Broadly speaking, any startup is competing on innovation or messaging, and, ideally, on both. Usually, you want to start with innovation — do something new or something better. Doing what no one else is doing won’t last: Sooner or later, you’ll get copied by big players or other startups, so innovation is not enough.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

To shed light on this, we’ve gathered ten insightful strategies from CEOs and Founders. The valuable lesson learned from this experience revolved around the significance of staying connected to market trends and maintaining flexibility in our business strategy. This strategy proved to be a win-win. The key takeaway?

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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. What are the breakthrough tech innovations transforming industries to build a radically better world? The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds help startups and small businesses to: Get guidance to develop suitable marketing strategies, Get professional marketing services on-demand on a simple fixed monthly price, and Pay expert’s charges only when experts work. Strategic guidance: The experts help clients develop the most profitable marketing strategies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Lots of fun things are coming down the pike here at TC Towers: TechCrunch Disrupt is back in September, so now’s the time to grab the super-early-bird tickets at a ludicrous discount. You may even hear a familiar voice or two in there: Haje shared a bunch of his pitch expertise for the podcast!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. Of all the pitches you get, what percentage are DeFi protocols or projects?

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Register Led by an eminent team of investors and industry captains from around the world, Awesome Ventures brings together a wealth of experience in strategy planning and diverse sectors. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

The first two years of the pandemic boosted e-commerce, but Simon Wu, a partner at Cathay Innovation, has identified three factors that are now creating strong headwinds for online retailers: Increasing economic uncertainty. Pitch Deck Teardown: Enduring Planet’s $2.1M Pitch Deck Teardown: Enduring Planet’s $2.1M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion. 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. More posts by this contributor. Step 1: Capture TAM.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

FOMO isn’t a strategy, it’s a tactic. We get into how to build a fundraising process , the concept of soft-circling an investor and what Kunst says is one of her biggest pet-peeves in a pitch deck on the site, but I wanted to give you that sneak peek for now. Secondly, we are already well into planning TechCrunch Disrupt 2021!

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Heyday competes against a large field of startups also raising huge amounts of money to follow their own Amazon marketplace roll-up strategies. The pitch that Heyday makes is that it has built technology that evaluates this sea of merchants to identify the most interesting of them all. Other big names out of the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 9, 2016

Half of innovation is invention. Creating an elegant, disruptive, and new experience is one of the greatest attractions of founding a company. It’s in the other half of the innovation equation that startups often underinvest: go to market. Great products merit innovative go to market. Is your go to market aligned?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Before you can deliver on any of the promises in your pitch deck, you’ll need to build a team. To help TechCrunch+ readers take on this challenge, we are looking for experts to participate in a survey about tactics and strategies for startup recruiting in Q1 2022. Three trends he’s identified: Moving beyond demand-side innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Mobility-as-a-service.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

What is the right organizational strategy for a large UK conglomerate to operate more effectively? What would the right technology strategy for Telecom Italia be in 5 years. Any true disruption will change all the rules. That was an awesome project and the answer was quantifiable. But much of the work was unknowable.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Steven Blank wrote yesterday about a novel way of depicting a startup’s competitive landscape in a pitch deck, called a petal diagram. Another alternative is a pyramid which expresses a startups intent to disrupt a market by addressing a new segment, as in this example for Expensify.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

They equip academics with state-of-the-art equipment and an expert workforce to bring an idea forward, while on-campus commercialisation offices help academics protect their innovations and take them from lab to market. Pierre says that Wellington UniVentures provides many ways for investors to keep their fingers on the pulse.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

It’s notable that the government chain-linked its announcement of a 10-year “entrepreneurial nation” strategy to a very public commitment that no part of Spanish society would be left behind in the scramble to digitally transform its economic model. “I’m spending most of my professional life in the US. .”

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

If you want to get press, or speak at a conference, or just get your content strategy going, bite sized chunks of this narrative can be turned into posts of their own, slides, white papers, video interviews, etc., AND NOW I'LL PRETEND THAT I WASN'T REALLY PITCHING AND I'LL BE ALL MODEST ABOUT IT. But it’s a really innovative idea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“As the venture landscape becomes more a meritocratic environment where resumes and institutional affiliations matter less, these strategies can make the difference between a successful fundraise and a fruitless meeting,” says Agya Ventures co-founder Kunal Lunawat. A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Christopher Steiner of FundersClub discusses why most people at big companies aren't incentivized to take risks, even calculated ones, in " Big Companies Aren't Geared For Innovation. " Courtney Rogin of Mattermark introduces two data points that help sales teams with territory planning: revenue range and U.S.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. Power Pitches.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Its focus is on developing DAC kit that can be installed (retrofitted) inside working cooling towers in the industrial sector — thereby, its pitch runs, slashing the cost of drawing down carbon emissions. Though you do have to be sure your tech can adapt to varying installation conditions.). CO2 going down the chimney.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

It will be using the money to double down on that strategy, including hiring up to 200 more engineers to work in its headquarters in Barcelona, as well as hubs in Madrid and Warsaw, Poland to build out the technology to underpin it. . “We’ve got our own strategy and it seems to be working.” ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The driving force of economic growth for the US is gains in productivity driven by calculated risk-takers, passionate entrepreneurs and disruptive innovation. We strive to educate our community that success takes commitment, strategy, discipline, and patience to sustain the journey and see long-term growth. Eric Parker.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? Why bother with a cyberattack when a few well-placed uppercased words from apparently reputable sources can wound thousands of our most innovative companies? Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Plenty of startups think they can put a dent in this world, and every year, I see dozens of pitches for companies that are “making speakers better” in various ways. Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Today, a startup is announcing that it has raised seed funding not to disrupt, but improve that basic model with a more flexible approach that can help agents work in a more modern way, and to ultimately scale out the number of people working as agents in the market. “But if you built it today, it would be fundamentally different.”

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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