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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. If you’re pitching impact, make it real. For instance, when pitching to a retail conglomerate, it can be very helpful to focus on metrics like inventory turnover rates and relationships with suppliers.

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Navigating Risk, Learning Relentlessly: An Interview with Steve Gomberg of Mondegreen Ventures

Jason Malki

Leveraged his cross-sector experience to identify and seize new market opportunities. After returning to the US from my four years in Southeast Asia I was looking for my next opportunity in the clean technology industry. I went to all types of pitch events and saw a lot of very bad ideas, technologies & business models.

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Sales Best Practices vs. Intuition in Startups

StartupNation

This tendency is exaggerated when the new offering is disruptive or innovative. If the offering is truly innovative and/or disruptive, this first step is even more vital. This too is a bit more difficult if the offering is viewed by the prospect as innovative and/or disruptive.

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17 Common CRM Selection Mistakes Startups Should Avoid

StartupNation

Missteps during the selection process can lead to wasted resources and missed opportunities. These weren’t minor usage gaps—they represented wasted investment and missed productivity opportunities. System claims mismatched, disrupting team workflow. Adopting a phased testing approach solved it. A hard lesson indeed.

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself. Was this episode from five years ago?

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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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Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab hosts Global Demo Day of Disruptive Startups

American Entrepreneurship

Twenty-three members of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab cohort are pitching today to an audience of over 300 investors, potential partners, and customers. The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program.