Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. From highlighting potential returns and problems to starting your pitch with the customer’s story, these leaders shared their insights on how to effectively present your business ideas to potential investors.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sales wants more features. Product gets bogged down with one-off requests. Progress and growth grinds to a halt. It’s a familiar story. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B acquisition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Contributed to EO by Eden Gillott, an EO Los Angeles member who is president of Gillott Communications , a strategic communications and crisis PR firm. She’s the author of A Business Owner’s Guide to Crisis PR: Protecting You & Your Business’ Reputation , and serves the EO Los Angeles chapter as MarComm co-chair. We asked Eden how to protect your company from being cancelled.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Circularity tales: Tackling the problem of single-use cups in Spain Irri Sarri, spearheaded by visionary entrepreneur Ander Alvarez, stands at the forefront of the global movement towards a circular economy, combatting the environmental repercussions of single-use plastic. Through active participation in Impact Hub Donostia’s global pilot programme, Irri Sarri evolved from a reusable cup solution to a comprehensive exploration of their entire product lifecycle.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Deloitte has today announced the winners of the 2023 UK Technology Fast 50 awards. The awards recognise and rank the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK, based on average revenue growth over a four-year period, and are sponsored by Multiverse, Oracle NetSuite, BGF and HSBC Innovation Banking. Read more here.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The post [Hailo in GlobeNewswire] Schneider Electric integrates Hailo Technologies processors for greater AI capabilities appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In perhaps the most unexpected tech news of the year, billionaire and AI evangelist Sam Altman has been ejected from his CEO role at OpenAI by the company’s board after an apparent vote of no confidence. Its exact wording in a release issued this afternoon: Altman’s “departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Glencoco, a NYC-based marketplace that connects companies with business development consultants to generate opportunities, raised $3M in funding. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has quit the firm, he said Friday, hours after the Microsoft-backed giant abruptly fired its chief executive Sam Altman and assured that Brockman would remain at the startup. Brockman’s sudden departure adds to the day’s uncertainties at OpenAI, following closely on the heels of its maiden developer conference led […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who, exactly, is Mira Murati?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

One of X’s key advertisers, Apple, will pause its advertising on the platform, according to a report from Axios. Apple follows in the footsteps of advertisers like IBM and the European Commission, who have suspended ads on X amid increased on-platform antisemitism. Per research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, X has failed to […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Elon Musk has encouraged extremists and white supremacists throughout his yearlong tenure as the owner of X, formerly Twitter, but this week he still managed to push the limits of what behavior mainstream users — and advertisers — will tolerate. On Wednesday, Musk endorsed a post from an X user accusing Jewish communities of spreading […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company. Let's dive in to this and other news from startup land. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (which has already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news. Worldcoin’s token, WLD, fell […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies for more wide-ranging needs. While there is a more…nefarious side to ChatGPT, it’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Good morning! All signs are pointing to a recovery in 2024, and that’ll be better for some than others. The past few years have seen investors propping up mediocre portfolio companies, hoping that a little boost can help them through a tough fundraising market. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!