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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. 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.

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A Canvas That Tells a Story: KISS Canvas (v4.0)

Paul G. Silva

15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. This is economically sustainable because of [ financials ].

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Adding Slides Does Not Enhance Your Investor Pitch

Gust

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. Competition and sustainable advantage. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Down-funnel growth metrics, RIF planning, is e-commerce aggregation over?

TechCrunch

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 .” Thanks for reading — I hope you have a great weekend. Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. pre-seed deck.

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A Canvas That Tells a Story: KISS Canvas (v3)

Paul G. Silva

15 years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. This is economically sustainable because of [ financials ].

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Komprise raises $37M to help companies index, manage and transform data

TechCrunch

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. This approach helps us weather potential headwinds as we build a self-sustaining business.” Goswami pitches it as a compliance solution as well as a means to manage costs.

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Supernormal raises $10M to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings

TechCrunch

It’s a strong sales pitch. After long sessions, they realized that they didn’t have any notes from the conversations, and that well-documented discussions were going to be critical to their success. But he believes the growth is sustainable. As soon as one team member is distributed, a meeting documentation tool is needed.”

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