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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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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Daily Crunch: The party’s over — Airbnb bans all disruptive gatherings in perpetuity

TechCrunch

Now that you have said subscription, head on over to Haje ’s story about your pitch deck needing an operating plan. Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Stylework, India’s co-working marketplace, nabs $2m in fresh funding

AsiaTechDaily

Existing investor WFC, along with iAngels Network, Sateeq Invest, and Impactful Pitch structured syndicates, and marquee industry mix global HNIs, also participated in the round.

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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

TechCrunch

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. News Drops from Disrupt. Omneky : Leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table

TechCrunch

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Gust

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Startups that try to mix a non-profit entity with a for-profit entity to share resources don’t work, and scare off investors. Zappos logo via Flickr by Ben Spark.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5

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