TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? Based on our experience, it takes less time to prepare an IEP petition than an O-1A petition because it’s not as document-intensive. I’m considering either having my startup sponsor me for an O-1A visa or self-petitioning an EB-1A green card.

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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

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. Join us and thousands of people around the world for this free, virtual pitch competition.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, SMEs were required to visit physical bank branches, provide extensive documentation, and endure lengthy approval processes for loans. Tomtit System for Rural Finance The limited availability of financial services in rural areas presents a significant challenge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. How many ethnicities are present in the executive ranks? These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. Goswami pitches it as a compliance solution as well as a means to manage costs. ” So what else can enterprises do with Komprise?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How do you assess and find what resources are available, then organize it all, document it, and publish it to make it available? It may be best not to have the mindset that you’re presenting a draft as a courtesy, but rather, that this is an integral part of assessing the assets and gaps in the community.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2020

Eva Doss, President and CEO at The Launch Place, elaborated, “We had multiple organizations in the region that were providing specific services to entrepreneurs and small businesses: business counseling, seminars, workshops, investment capital, pitch competitions, networking events, etc.

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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. You want to allow your customers to tell you about their experiences and challenges rather than trying to pitch them a solution.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The input contains the topics I’m going to cover in a presentation at the conference. Please suggest a list of ideas for a fun and novel title for this presentation. I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. I’ll press run and it’ll give me a bunch of different titles.

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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. . I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

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. While many organized interests contributed to this change in policy, in the book, Nicholas documents the venture capital industry’s central role among them.

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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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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. . I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. after all you aren’t presenting this at TED. I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Follow-on funding is harder to come by, but seed-stage founders who have a strong idea and good presentation skills can still close rounds. Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us. ” Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Consequently, this approach not only optimizes task execution in the present but also strategically develops the team’s capabilities for future endeavors. It creates a culture where challenges are seen as opportunities for growth, rather than mere obligations. I set the expectations on what one team member can expect from another.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it’s acquiring Clipchamp , a company offering web-based video creation and editing software that allows anyone to put together video presentations, promos or videos meant for social media destinations like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

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. Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You. . Power Pitches. June 17th, 2012. Read ‘Painting with Numbers.’

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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 went all in. It was fascinating.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

After giving a presentation he’d previously shared at Harvard Business School, Stanford and MIT, Currier outlined the mental models unicorn founders adopt and offered candid advice for early-stage entrepreneurs, including his thoughts on building a founding team: “You have to figure out what you and your team are capable of doing.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The reason I’ve been able to generate a significant amount of content is that almost everything I write is a sanitized version of a memo or presentation I made for my work, not marketing for the sake of marketing. I use this to host my presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. 3) Documenting best practices.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

Facts are presented dispassionately for what they are. Our CEO can deliver a convincing investor pitch deck and plan. Our CEO schedules required meetings well in advance and sends board decks, option grant proposals, legal and other documents for board member review well in advance of board meetings.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The reason I’ve been able to generate a significant amount of content is that almost everything I write is a sanitized version of a memo or presentation I made for my work, not marketing for the sake of marketing (more on this below). I use this to host my presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. Google Drive **.

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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. That’s right; you get zero ads in search results.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. True story.) million were enormous.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. Image: Rows.

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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. Please note that a version of the conversation was originally ran on the HR Heretics podcast. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Key takeaways Write a MOC.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 22, 2020

They also learn how to pitch their startup to investors, customers, employees. The program culminates in Demo Day, a two-day event where the founders present their companies to investors. We also focused on documentation. We push founders to evolve their ideas, find product market fit, develop their strategy and their story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Information Asymmetry - The biggest problem that presenters face in large (5+ people) is information asymmetry. You come into a meeting where your sponsor (the person who invited you to present to the partners) knows a lot about you and the rest of the room may have varying degrees of knowledge. Does that sound ok?&#.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short – maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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