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Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative

TechCrunch

Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. 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. An elegant strategy memo is your most important document. Contributor.

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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

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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Pitching In The Big Leagues: An Inside Look At Series A Fundraising

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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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Daily Crunch: Proton releases end-to-end encrypted password manager for desktop and mobile

TechCrunch

We assure you, they’re real : Singapore-based document verifier Accredify is now flush with $7 million to continue to tell you if your documents are real. It’s like Barbie’s Jeep, but in human size : French microcar startup Kate raised another $7.6 Catherine has more. Process problems? People problems?

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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Daily Crunch: Starting today, Twitter says all advertisers must obtain verified accounts

TechCrunch

Taking the plunge : Founders Pledge, a charitable initiative in London, launched a venture capital arm called Pledge Ventures in what Mike writes is to “create a new ‘flywheel’ in philanthropy.”

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