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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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Find trends, advice and value at these special breakout sessions during TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

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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Accel, BoxGroup, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC and Yahoo to judge Startup Battlefield at Disrupt

TechCrunch

We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Improve your pitch: Startup Battlefield isn’t just thrilling to watch; it’s a masterclass in how investors think. All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.

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Pitch for the check you want 

TechCrunch

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. What is this, revenue growth for ants?

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Pitch, a platform for making and sharing presentations, raises $85M on a $600M valuation

TechCrunch

PowerPoint may still dominate the landscape for presentations in many people’s minds, but some might say that legacy status also makes Microsoft’s software ripe for disruption. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. And it would be?—?but

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The Future Is Now: GLC Emcee Pascal Finette Shares Wisdom for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. I hear way too many entrepreneurs pitch stuff that I don’t understand—and I’m sure they don’t understand either. Words to live—and learn—by. It is not complicated.