Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Opportunities are simply opportunities and not long-term plans. How to fix the mistake of losing focus of what really matters: Having a clear strategy in place helps to say NO by agreeing and focusing on goals and priorities. The challenge here is that in a startup, you will probably have to adjust the strategy more often.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. Perfecting My Pitch. I started my pitch, and everything went smoothly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

A quick word on pitching. If you are starting your fundraising journey , apply to be part of the 2-minute life pitch practice on our TechCrunch Live series. If you’ve already raised some money , Haje is always on the lookout for pitch decks to feature as part of his Pitch Deck Teardown series on TechCrunch+. Hey, folks!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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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. It creates a culture where challenges are seen as opportunities for growth, rather than mere obligations.

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

In a nascent field like entrepreneurial ecosystem building, practitioner examples are rare and we were not going to pass up the opportunity to speak to four representatives of this pilot project to learn more about: What gave rise to the need of hiring an ecosystem builder. River and bridges in Danville.

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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. What opportunities are on the horizon? Be specific in this elevator pitch of your business. What is your value proposition? Why is now a good time for a business like yours?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. is incredible.

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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 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

The main thing to guard is an strategy direction in your future that you feel is proprietary. Since the game of competing is always “where the puck is going” you can have a detailed conversation without completely letting on what your future strategy will be. When I was raising money I pitched to several VCs.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 22, 2020

All made changes to their product strategy as necessitated by the new market conditions. For example, Faire (W17), an online supply chain for boutiques and other small retailers, recognized an opportunity as in-person events were cancelled across the country. We also focused on documentation.

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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. Pet Angel Pet Angel is the premier pet death care company providing unparalleled cremation services to Veterinarians within a national B2B rollup strategy. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The best possible move is to invest in and warehouse some special purpose vehicles that fit your strategy. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

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. “Investors see a lot of pitches,” VC and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman noted. “In exit strategy”. You want them focused on the opportunity. just X percent”.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

The best possible move is to invest in and warehouse some special purpose vehicles that fit your strategy. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Today, a company that is providing the platform to do that is announcing a significant fundraise to tap into that opportunity. I’ve heard more than one tech person complain about how a lot of what is pitched and peddled as AI is not really that. A lot of that, however, can be misleading.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. So it should be no surprise that “yes” doesn’t come easily.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I think there’s a market opportunity for a talent agent for microinfluencers, who would help me better work with and possibly monetize my audience. 3) Documenting best practices.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc.

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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. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe. Betterfront.io

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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. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

Our CEO alots his or her time in a manner always mindful of the opportunity costs that may be involved. Our CEO can deliver a convincing investor pitch deck and plan. Our CEO is always looking for business development opportunities and partnerships leveraging the technology, customer base or salesforce of others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. “Here’s how you upload a document. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 23, 2015

They, too, must prototype, position, pitch, bootstrap, recruit, fund, partner, sell, and support. Whether caused by external factors such as changes in the marketplace or internal factors such as a new CEO, tectonic shifts may create an opportunity for your efforts. Some aspiring entrepreneurs are already working for a big company.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel was created when its co-founders, just out of college, experienced how heavily where you live impacts the opportunities you get. Enabling this talent and empowering this talent to get the best opportunities is really what Deel is all about. Something that they themselves wanted, or that the people immediately around them wanted.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I think there’s a market opportunity for a talent agent for microinfluencers, who would help me better leverage my audience. 3) Documenting best practices. This is hosted by NFX.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve got to go consult documentation. It’s a strategy that we’ve been using from the beginning. Today, most context windows are around 32K, but bigger context windows are coming—and with them, the ability to run larger documents with more context through LLMs.

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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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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. Honestly, and even before you get to outreach, I talk a lot to our entrepreneurs about being precise, like: what is your referencing strategy? Key takeaways Write a MOC.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2017

Ten to twenty pages describing the idea, the genesis, the business model, the team and its structure, customer acquisition strategy, sales model and other key details of the business. There are many good reasons for the transition to more visual sales pitches for companies. Why does an opportunity exist now to create this company?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The pitch to business/public sector customers is speedier corporate/internal search without compromising commercial data privacy. He also cites a study by one city authority that found staff spent 37% of their time at work searching for documents or other digital content. An opportunity for competition?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

They lie in wait of these exact situations, and salivate at the opportunity to exercise their advantage. Dirty” or structured term sheets are proposed investments where the majority of the economic gains for the investor come not from the headline valuation, but rather through a series of dirty terms that are hidden deeper in the document.

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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 NPS would soar. see below). This is a “robbery in plain sight.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. So really having a documented set of priorities is the more important piece than the accountability piece, which I think is a nice externality of having whatever process you build. Mine, I edit constantly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

So the disruption potential — and revenue ‘opportunities’ — look huge. So the pitch is that — finally — waste processing facilities will have the data to show buyers that ensures they can get a fair price. Problems that scale all over the globe, too.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? What was the split between actual software features, versus content you had on the site to just help people get going, like documentation, et cetera? We kind of zigged and zagged a couple times.

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