Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. I totally agree.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. hit nearly $1.8

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Matt Miller – Founder. My best piece of advice for founders is to keep in mind that they can’t do it alone. So give your pitch deck a break and lend an ear!”. BrakeAce. “My

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 Floww’s idea is that it showcases startups based on merit only, allowing founders to raise capital by providing investors with data and transparency.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You’ve started a company, assembled a super squad of founders, and built out the MVP of your product. You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

I am continually surprised at founders who spend ten minutes throwing up a barebones profile and are dismayed that money doesn’t start flowing in. At the very least, answer ALL the profile questions, include your company’s logo, create a two-minute elevator pitch video and upload your presentation deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. We know the rules, so you don’t have to spend time talking to lawyers and getting documents — we simplify all that.” The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Knowing who your target investors are and what they are looking for can help you tailor your pitch and increase your chances of getting funded.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

This pitch throw-down is all about startups determined to power a more equitable, inclusive and healthy world, and we need more of that visionary thinking put into action. You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Female Founder Award: The Live Green Co. Learn more about XTC here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While they can withdraw those funds from the business the next day, local founders must still secure decent backing to even begin the work. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Katrin Siebenbuerger Hacki, founder, Medows. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But fret not, we’ve listed down the eight biggest fundraising mistakes that you need to be wary of while approaching the investors, pitching to them, and signing contracts. Substandard Pitch Decks. A prominent mistake entrepreneurs make is by not focusing much on the pitch deck. Assuming Valuations And Demands.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But this is something that French startup Edda is looking to fix, with a platform aimed at helping investors, analysts, chief financial officers (CFOs), and even company founders get the insights they need, and the tools that make working collaboratively on deals just that little bit easier. Investors invest.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams Accountability is a cornerstone of startup success, and we’ve gathered insights from CEOs and Founders to learn how they maintain it within their teams. It shows you who has updated the task, and you can include documents, images, and other attachments in the task.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”. Sophie Alcorn.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

He’s the CEO of Humaans , an HR tech startup that lets organizations build a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts and other components of “people ops.” ” Luperti has a product to pitch.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. The company was founded by Jamie Begin, founder of the AWS Michigan User Group. Spellbound AR.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve assembled over 300 investors from over 30 states and 6 international countries, where many of our members are current or former operators & founders with experience battling some of the same challenges that our portfolio founders face. clipr transcribes and categorizes the content of our pitch meeting video recordings.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You and your fellow founders probably want to make an impact and be your own bosses. You can’t pay them in the early days unless you pitch, and deliver on, exponential growth for your investors. Investors might want to see at least a 10x return on their investment, and until that happens they want to see exponential growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You want to proactively manage the order in which people access information and focus their attention on a few key documents that they can return to when they fall down a rabbit hole. Founders should think of three primary documents as their “holy trinity”: the deck, the strategy memo and the forecast model.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. Approach it primarily through the eyes of the founder — where and how they go through the ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Lew Cirne, New Relic’s founder and CEO, is stepping into the executive chairman role. The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. But there’s a simple way to speed up the clock: Bring in one or more founders who have previous executive experience.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Cloverleaf, led by co-founders CEO Darrin Murriner and COO Kirsten Moorefield, is on a mission to empower companies in cultivating and retaining high-performing staff and teams, unlocking their full potential. Learn more at Advantagecap.com. Securities & Exchange Commission. Advantage Capital is an equal opportunity provider.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That does not always lead to success, but it helps founders to avoid investments of resources into unpromising markets and ideas. Often, founders are convinced by their solution and vision, and a firm conviction leads to either hearing only positive feedback or reducing research. He felt the pain, and the idea of Dropbox arose. “If

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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. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. 3) Raise capital.

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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. . Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. 3) Raise capital. 4) Originate investments.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 8, 2022

The initiative provides a 1-month access to coaching and training that offers investment-ready support to prepare startups to network and pitch to investors through a Virtual Investment Event. DDA’S 2022 “Investing in Africa ” report. .

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021. XQuant is Asia’s leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis and second prize winner of KSGC 2021. .”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We brought together some of the best AI founders and leaders—from those scaling the underlying foundation models to those building products that could transform entire industries—for a series of conversations on where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in the field. I’ve got to go consult documentation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Will AI take all the design jobs?

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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. Patrick Collison, the Stripe co-founder and CEO.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Legendary Silicon Valley firm Sutter Hill Ventures was created through two SBICs started by its founders William Draper III and Paul Wythes. Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

May Habib is co-founder and CEO of Writer.com , an AI writing assistant for teams that helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology and brand voice. Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at it. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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