NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 9, 2022

It’ll help your people feel valued, supported and invested in and there’s the obvious business and customer benefits in ensuring high quality presentations, pitches and video conferencing. With plenty of bandwidth for both download and upload online activities, business fibre broadband will have your back whatever the need.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Downloading and reviewing editorial calendars is a great way to gain insight into what matters most to the writers and the time line they are working toward. If you’re interested in pitching more media in 2022 while also gaining a better understanding of what happens to the emails you send, GMass is for you. High-quality headshots.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." He investigated successful models, like Toca Boca, downloaded every top educational app on the App Store, and played alongside his two sons, carefully observing and absorbing their feedback. Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app (3,000 words/12 minutes). If you enjoyed my series, make sure to check out other EC-1s and subscribe to ExtraCrunch to support me, this newsletter and the rest of the team. Applications for the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off in July are open. Do you agree? Around TechCrunch.

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

To help shape the post-COVID-19 economic recovery in Ghana and Nigeria and support their entrepreneurs , Impact Hub created a program called “ New Economy Booster ” in partnership with Lab of tomorrow and with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). But their plans don’t stop here. “In

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In many cases, based on our interactions with thousands of founders in the Draftbit Community , success seems to come down to how well they enlist the support of those first mobile app users. Then you can think about downloads, dollars and the dream you made a reality by bringing your mobile app to life, to market and into people’s hands.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

I’ve written more about “why now” in the context of pitching elsewhere , but it’s interesting to see that surface. There’s a stark change: Investors are spending 60% more time on the financials section of a pitch deck compared to a year ago. Decks are getting shorter; last year, the average successful deck had 19 slides.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Support for most popular email services. I was looking for apps that supported major services, like Gmail and Outlook, as well as the IMAP and POP3 protocols, so you could use most other options. There's a trend of apps just supporting Gmail and Outlook, so this may have to change going forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Getting follow-on meetings is very hard because if the VC wasn’t totally persuaded in the first pitch meeting they aren’t likely to want to commit more time. What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. I also like to say that while getting a first meeting isn’t easy, it also isn’t that hard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by ‘95% of Stanford undergrads’ . Google makes good on its $1B plan to support Africa’s digital economy, but there is a long way to go . Pitch Deck Teardown: Vori’s $10M Series A deck. What’s next for creator-focused startups now that the venture boom is over? . Image Credits: Liquid Death.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Getting creatives paid is a mission I’ll always support. Books, music, and other content downloads. Pitch me coffee mug merch (since you can tell I like that) while showing a different reader t-shirts (since they seem to have bought those in the past from other Substack authors). Branded creator merchandise. Event tickets.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We’ve been impressed by the alacrity, communication skills, and high level of competence of the customer success team, who have to support a lot of custom functionality we’ve built. HubSpot doesn’t allow blocking of downloads and Docsend does, so we continue to use them. . downloadable white papers, models, etc).

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The answer to the original question, therefore, is that an entrepreneur should use Gust as a set of powerful tools to organize, support and smooth the fundraising process, rather than expecting it to be a magic bullet. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Are Pitch Decks becoming obsolete? Some Angel groups endorse it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. As I’m sure Pip.io

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The startup was only founded in mid 2020 — launching its service in the UK last July — but it touts rapid domestic growth (100,000+ monthly downloads of its apps; reaching sixth position in the iOS App Store’s top finance apps); and is already gearing up for international expansion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

There are even LP fund-of-funds who raise capital with a main marketing pitch of providing better access to direct investments. LPs remain staunch supporters of the venture capital industry, and their investment pace into VC seems likely to hold steady for the next one to two years (barring any unforeseen negative market events).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Their pitch was highly produced bite-sized content, packed with Hollywood star power, and designed to be “mobile-first” entertainment. In its first few months, Quibi was downloaded 3.5 The company expanded in Australia in August with a free ad-supported tier for users. million times and had 1.5 million active users.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Another US femtech startup has joined the race to build up data-sets to support research into and understanding of a range of health issues that can affect women. Decoding the vaginal microbiome is thus seen as an opportunity to support a broad range of women’s health goals.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The Bear does not know that I have secured the support of Sir Powell. I must caution, though, that Sir Powell still needs the support of his royal Grandmother, Dowager Empress Yellen. Usually, whatever trade or investment idea Goldy is pitching is a sign you should do the exact opposite. The Great Bear shall not succeed.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some experts, despite legal uncertainty, have even created guides on how to train a model and make covers with it, and they’ll post links to models they’ve trained for others to download. We expect to see infrastructure emerge to support this on a greater scale. This is already supported by MusicGen with the “ continuation ” setting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

So I immediately requested more information and dropped a little sales pitch as to why the owners should meet with me. This was like nothing I had ever seen before… There was NO request for permission There was NO downloads or installs There was NO prompt There was NO nothing!! NO DOWNLOADS, NO INVITES, NO INSTALLS, NOTHING!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. That is what we set out to solve at MyTime.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

It’s worth noting that Topi also supports up-front purchases, so that a customer can decide to rent an iPhone at the checkout for a two-year period, while buying a laptop outright. In the future, Topi will also offer Klarna-style instalment payment options for customers who know in advance that they want to own the product at the end.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a compelling pitch, one that enabled Made Renovation to raise at least $31 million across two rounds of funding between 2020 and 2021 from investors Felicis, Founders Fund, Insight Partners, and actress-entrepreneur Jessica Alba among some others who liked its tech-driven approach. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The pitch: Video has emerged as one of the prominent ways for enterprises to communicate internally and externally with their customers and partners. The pitch: Over half of American farms don’t have the tools or bandwidth they need to identify ways to improve their farms and become profitable. Website: accessbell.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This means Xayn’s search is not ad-supported. The pitch to business/public sector customers is speedier corporate/internal search without compromising commercial data privacy. . ” On the consumer side there will also be some premium add-ons headed for the app — so the plan is for it to be a freemium download.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. A good beginning would be Bill Payne’s The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels, available as a free download from [link]. Understand your business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London-based femtech, Hormona , which is pitching its hormone tracker in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, hopes to encourage people with periods to do just that: Add hormone-monitoring to their quantified health mix. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch. with a European launch to follow later. ” Why track hormones?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For example, Neeva requests read and write permissions when a user connects GitHub to their Neeva account, a requirement stipulated by GitHub’s API for downloading data, though Neeva says that it “will not use write access in any way.” “We figured it was better as an explicit opt-in feature.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

with a wall of amazing content for you to download straight into your brain. “However, current market conditions do not support having just a single model.” As January is coming to a close, the TechCrunch team is firing on all cylinders (do we still say that, in a time of electric cars?

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For instance, Glossier’s email campaign merely wants the reader to scroll through beautiful phone backgrounds and maybe download one to use as their wallpaper. . Want to drive mobile app downloads? So why not apply that sentiment to other businesses, helpful tools, and third-party apps your subscribers would love to download and use?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From the earliest pitch decks I had ever created. The idea is to offer a place where women can get validated, accessible information about the full spectrum of gynaecological health — along with expert support and guidance to help them access appropriate treatments (or make helpful lifestyle changes) for any specific issues identified.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Startups and VC Last night, the news broke that Virgin Orbit was pausing operations for at least a week while it looked for funding to support the business. Safe as banks : Top crypto app downloads rise over 15% following SVB collapse , Jacquelyn reports. it never should’ve come to a staff furlough , however, Aria writes.

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