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TechCrunch+ roundup: 7 VCs who are taking pitches, AI best practices, zero-based budgeting

TechCrunch

If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.” There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We thought GSEA would be an excellent framework for exploring another generation of students whose brilliant ideas could become big business.”. Costantini: “As adults, it’s our job to encourage self-starters and creative thinking in education. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade.

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Teachers are leaving schools. Will they come to startups next?

TechCrunch

Tensions between educators and NYC officials grew over the past few weeks, as school openings were delayed twice and staffing shortages continue. The startups all have different versions of the same pitch: they can offer teachers more money, and flexibility, than the status quo. Honestly, I have no confidence in the city,” she says.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. You never know where a hit will come from, which is why these events capture our attention.

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5 Tips on Angel Investing from Veterans in this Space

Angel Capital Association

Look for a group that connects angel investors with promising early-stage companies and that provides the education and information for both groups to lead to a healthy pipeline of deal flow. Some thousands of pitch decks later, he looks for the following key questions and points to be addressed in founder pitch decks: Who is your customer?

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7 investors discuss web3’s present and peer into its future

TechCrunch

However, our research indicated that the investment landscape is growing increasingly competitive as venture capitalists become more educated and less skeptical. Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? . Mercedes Bent , partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners.