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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

It’s something Yves Sisteron & I have been talking about for years at Upfront Ventures. Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. .

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.” Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. What ever happened to “build it”?

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

What is your pitch to employers to tell them to come to Solano County? And so, our pitch is, imagine that you had a place like West Village in New York or Georgetown in DC, or Noe Valley or the Marina in San Francisco. Jan: So, we have a lot of employers in the room, I think, in the Bay Area and in New York and DC.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. They’re all doing pretty well.

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