TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

You’ll learn or strengthen the core entrepreneurial skillsets every startup founder needs to master — legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. Here are just two of the featured speakers ready to download serious knowledge in April.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Next, a few favorite excerpts from the chat, starting with Kunst’s notes on how to make a killer pitch deck. Where to pitch Cleo Capital. How to make a great pitch deck. Don’t make me download anything. And I say that on behalf of every other VC and angel in the world. Stripe Atlas. Don’t be ugly.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In large part, that is a result of who pitches to VCs, not surprisingly. We can debate how to get a more diverse stream of people in the top of the funding funnel for sure, but the fact is that VCs just want to make money. Not only that, there are a lot of VCs and angels all walking around competing for the best deals.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company. 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.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

But there’s another problem that is much less obvious: the stories, topics and expertise you pitch. . Many entrepreneurs want media coverage so desperately, they pitch random topics that are unrelated to their business’ revenue drivers. How to tell revenue-driving stories.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. The “team beneath the team&# was as talented as any top team that pitches me startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Becca’s latest for TC+ — use code EQUITY for 50% off an annual membership — gets into why the hiring slide in the pitch deck is no longer going to be a throwaway part of the presentation. After our call, I joked that I’m curious if any VC firms are interested in backing startups that don’t care at all about discipline or capital efficiency.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app (3,000 words/12 minutes). For telehealth startups, it means crafting a pitch that explains why virtual care makes sense for the conditions you serve. Applications for the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off in July are open. Image Credits: Getty Images / drante. Around TechCrunch.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

with a wall of amazing content for you to download straight into your brain. Startups and VC There are some people on the internet who don’t want to be found. 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? What is a better expression these days?),

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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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 8, 2022

Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by ‘95% of Stanford undergrads’ . Flag this for a future trend for me to look into: We’re seeing more and more VC firms dedicate a portion of carried interest to people who refer successful deals to them. Yeah, no, most VCs still don’t really care about your path to profitability.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

This week, DocSend dropped a big load of statistics about the VC activity over the past half year or so. I’ve written more about “why now” in the context of pitching elsewhere , but it’s interesting to see that surface. Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Now the average is 16.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

TechCrunch reports that data indicates that the crypto trading ad push during the big American football game led to a spike in downloads for the pertinent companies. Today TechCrunch dug into Europe and the deep tech market, a particular segment of the tech landscape that is often pitched as a U.S.-versus-China Startups/VC.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. 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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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

million (~$3.5M) seed investment — a few months after launching (in May) its single-matching service in London and New York (and racking up over 52k downloads). Thursday , a dating app that wants to solve problems created by, well, too much time spent using dating apps, had raised a £2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Startups and VC. Happy to comply: Order matters : When Haje isn’t writing about Apple, he is helping startups figure out the best slide order for their pitch decks. . consumers a way to pay in installments to Kirsten ’s story on Ford’s new sales process and Sarah ’s look at the number of App Store and Google Play downloads.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

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. In this case it is novel because kids download iPhone game apps for free to play with them.

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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. ” The startup has raised a total of $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From the earliest pitch decks I had ever created. .” Today, Daye is announcing a £10 million (~$11.5M) Series A round — which includes investment from London-based Hambro Perks, global VC firm MassMutual Ventures and Canadian VC Cross Border Impact Ventures — and brings its total raised to £19M (or just under $22M) to date.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

While the pitches aren’t as fast and furious, they’re still coming. Chicago-based Clockwork.ai , which describes itself as a “financial planning and analysis platform (FP&A) for growing businesses and their advisors,” closed on $2 million in seed funding from Underscore VC in Boston. Now on to funding rounds. customer information.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

He left in 2018 to join esteemed venture capital (VC) firm Greylock Partners, a role he continues in today, albeit in a reduced capacity. But for a product that is pitched substantively on its privacy credentials, this could be construed as an ill-fitting feature, which is why moving forward search history will be off by default.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Most board meetings are “update meetings” where management downloads its status to a group of investors. Presenting at Meetings without Going Down a Rathole (this was written for VC pitches but many lessons apply). Meeting Dynamics (also for VC pitches but also some practical tips for board meetings).

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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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. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million in early stage funding to date — with investment coming from European VC firm Earlybird; Dominik Schiener ( Iota co-founder); and the Swedish authentication and payment services company, Thales AB. The pitch to business/public sector customers is speedier corporate/internal search without compromising commercial data privacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers. Try that now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. A lot of the VCs I talked to – I was living in NorCal, a lot of the VCs were saying, “Yeah, come on in, EIR.”

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