TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you have limited time to project that maturity to prospective funds. A good strategy memo becomes the guideline for how the entire diligence process unfolds. Founders should think of three primary documents as their “holy trinity”: the deck, the strategy memo and the forecast model.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 8, 2022

This decade has seen the rise of a new generation of entrepreneurs creating opportunities and tackling some of the biggest challenges of our time. The program works with entrepreneurs in Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Kenya to offer curated connections with local and international investors. DDA’S 2022 “Investing in Africa ” report. .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. According to data gathered by Rob Olson, partner and head of data strategy at venture engine M13, startups that have two or more experienced founders tend to exit 33% faster and raise 34% less capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

So they are living documents that you should initially review after each interview and adjust as needed, and at a later time for strategic realignments. After all, solving problems is what we do as entrepreneurs, product managers, and designers. In the case of Agree, they have developed a customer profile. Sign up here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve got to go consult documentation. Your understanding as an entrepreneur of: who is your user? It’s a strategy that we’ve been using from the beginning. I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. What is their problem?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing.

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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. Pixm We are entrepreneurs making technologies to stop phishing breaches. Pet Angel Pet Angel is the premier pet death care company providing unparalleled cremation services to Veterinarians within a national B2B rollup strategy.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 23, 2015

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are already working for a big company. Like external entrepreneurs, they dream of creating innovative products. They, too, must prototype, position, pitch, bootstrap, recruit, fund, partner, sell, and support. We came up with this list of recommendations for internal entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us. ” Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Elated Entrepreneur. .” Thanks for reading — I hope you have a great weekend. Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From aligning tasks with individual strengths to distributing tasks based on complexity, explore the diverse strategies used by fifteen experts to empower their teams and optimize operations. This strategy helps us to make our associates feel like a part of the executive team, and they are behind the wheel, taking big decisions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The Future is Uncertain, Your Pitch Deck (and Profitability) Can’t be On the off chance you need to be reminded, factors that can make or break your business are unpredictable, and 2020 has reminded us in no uncertain terms how quickly market opportunities, customer demands, and institutions can change irrevocably at a moment’s notice.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. It’s like the Super Bowl for entrepreneurs!

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. Entrepreneurs: Don’t Quit Your Real Job Too Early.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 20, 2021

Lessons to help you transition from employee to entrepreneur Source: productlessons.xyz Since I quit my tech job, I’ve received a lot of questions: “Do you regret turning down your Instagram offer?”, “What are you doing now?”, “How does it feel to be free?” As an entrepreneur, you’re on a rollercoaster with no seat belts and no guarantees.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Having a clear strategy in place helps to say NO by agreeing and focusing on goals and priorities. Go deeper into these lessons and more: Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It Don’t hide in shame from your startup failure “When I stepped on stage at Demo Day to pitch our company to hundreds of investors, I had never felt so confident.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. You have an “hour” to pitch in your first meeting. Prepare to give your pitch in 30 including Q&A.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. True story.) We raised just $500k.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Giving the same pitch, sending the same email, and answering the same questions over and over again. A great way to get connected with potential investors is by participating in pitch competitions. I couldn’t pitch the idea clearly, which meant that even I didn’t understand my solution, so why should others? Refresh again.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Many entrepreneurs who claim to embrace the lean Start-Up canon actually adopt only part of it, neglecting to research customer needs.” — Tom Eisenmann, Harvard How to fix the mistake of trying to build a great product immediately: Use a data-driven approach and test your value proposition properly before building a product.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many modern entrepreneurs have limited exposure to the notion of failure or layoffs because it has been so long since these things were common in the industry. Following through and succeeding at such a strategy will require these investors to truly embrace being a Shark. Entrepreneurs/Founders/CEOs. This is uncharted territory.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. The mission is the elevator pitch. And we know that the chief people officer role, CHRO—unlike maybe finance or sales—entrepreneurs have a harder time understanding what that role is, right?

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.” (see see below). This is a “robbery in plain sight.”

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. That''s an interesting question. So what''s taking so long?

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy. Exit strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Additionally, we standardized the “allowance rates&# for services such as document storage, maximum numbers of users and we created more standardized packages of features that constituted an “up-sell&# to a our premium offerings. The problem is that we started with an SLA that was too favorable to us.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

A $100 million fund does not actually have $100 million in capital but $100 million in “committed capital,” essentially a legal document that states that LPs will send the fund money when “called.” How should startups adjust their pitch when fundraising during this crisis? After prison, he sold his life rights to Martino.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” Possibly offend and entrepreneur leading to reputation risk amongst other entrepreneurs.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s a traditional plan or a lean startup document, your business plan should cover everything someone would want to know about your business. Be specific in this elevator pitch of your business. Who will make sales, what tools will they use, and what is the overarching strategy for obtaining, converting and maintaining leads?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The startup’s wider pitch and “social mission” is to use (first party) household finance data and (third party) vendor data to build models that can progressively automate the management of essential service switching and/or contact renegotiating to offer a sort of household savings-as-a-(subscription)-service.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have seen some entrepreneurs go into first meetings willing to share almost anything about their company. I’ve seen this back fire on entrepreneurs who say things like, “Well, we’re not talking financials with investors yet.”. The main thing to guard is an strategy direction in your future that you feel is proprietary.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Mobile app?

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