Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2025

Monthly Entrepreneur Pitch Events (Jul – Dec 2024) Coordinate monthly entrepreneurial gatherings, in partnership with an Alliance organization. AI Education Initiative (Jul – Dec 2024) Project manage the development and launch of a modular, co-facilitated workshop series focused on practical AI applications for entrepreneurs.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Join us for an educational VC panel in NYC! Growing up as a Mets fan during the Wilpon ownership era, I was always demoralized when my crosstown rival Yankees would bring in other teams closers to pitch the 7th inning or somebody elses #5 hitter to play a platoon role. Go get the best people!

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

While this won't be useful for everyone, it shows the level of thoughtfulness that goes into the app—and may be an incredibly useful AI-powered option for educators, caretakers, and parents. Mindomo started with a strong focus on education but has recently expanded into more general and business-oriented use cases.

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Venture Well

JULY 29, 2019

VentureWell Director of Venture Development, Eli Velasquez offers insights on how to develop pitch competitions that provide maximum support to startups. The post Rethinking Pitch Competitions: Create Value, Not a Spectacle appeared first on VentureWell.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2024

Three finalists received training via workshops and coaching from business advisors, fine-tuning their business plans and pitches for the showcase and pitch competition. In addition to its classroom curriculum, NFTE hosts the Founders Forum Pitch Competition.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Educate the market by being the authority. And please, please, please don''t pitch VCs who blog to write about your company as if we were tech journalists. What do we tell about ourselves, to who, over time, and what is the goal--and when will we benefit from that goal. 2) Establish the team as experts on the problem you''re solving.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16! But then the truth sets in. This certainly isn’t anything conscious on my side. It’s just the facts. Even at 18. And truthfully he’s pretty impressive.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. The tablet market has absolutely exploded.

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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. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. Who will you be pitching to? The pitch-off will consist of three startup companies presenting for four seconds on the virtual stage, in front of the entire TC Sessions audience and our expert panel of judges.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

They pitch me features, not value. But what about education? When pressed not enough of these entrepreneurs can answer questions about why users would still be using this product in 5 years, about why their product is going to solve a consumer or business problem that isn’t being solved today. I play with features.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. We’ll see. TechStars Interactions. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. You don’t get to know companies that way.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We educate and train and test for a set of skills designed to succeed in 1950. Truly, in many ways, my concern was the inverse of normal business pitches. We need leaders who know how to accomplish feats through teamwork and collaboration. We need people who have emotional intelligence as well as actual fact-based knowledge.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. PlayPrint , founded by Kevin Zhang and Syed Bokhari (Centre County): Offering innovative, eco-friendly alternatives to children’s toys, PlayPrint focuses on creativity, educational value, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. Conventional wisdom tells us that life is linear and our paths, both educational and professional, should be linear, too. I was not the “obvious” choice to build and scale a company—but I did it anyway.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate. They simply need to know: who has a problem? how are you solving this problem?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

I quickly realized after joining a Forum that EO wasn’t just there to help you get rich but to support the complete entrepreneur, from wealth creation to emotional support, community, and education. My Forum members helped me get through the dot-com crash when my publicly traded company collapsed, and I had to start all over again.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Michael Tindall of Modern Distribution agreed: “EO has built a great community, offers both fun and educational events, and great people who cheer you on and want you to continue to succeed and enjoy life.” Other people struggle and can share their paths to success! It helps you realize you are not alone.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Tickets for live pitch event now available. SDAC engages angel investors and provides coaching, education, and connections to founders. Each year, the program culminates in a live final funding event.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Three of the four pitching finalists were women entrepreneurs focusing on health and wellness issues. They introduced “Startup Showcase Live”, a pitch contest for seed and pre-seed startups, competing for a $500,000 investment. The sold-out event also featured two additional pitching tracks: Early-stage and Growth Stage companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It signals a shift from startups playing in the supplemental education space and searching to win a spot in the largest chunk of a students day: the classroom. We’re not really pitching it as pandemic-related,” Chasen said. “No With Class] we don’t even have to pitch. Will edtech empower or erase the need for higher education?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Did you conduct any practice sessions?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

The research workshops blending scholars, educators, policy makers, entrepreneurial champions, and ecosystem builders can only get better [e.g., HilbertProblems (As an educator, I am working on a webinar/MOOC to serve ecosystem builders. 2) If you’ve got a better idea for a project, pitch it! (3) 2020ecosyPDW ]. Nigel Adams. “We

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MARCH 25, 2013

While the most visible and largest of these properties is zoned for commercial usage--it hasn't escaped anyone with a fifth grade math education that they would be much more lucrative as residential properties. So, want to know where to find me over the next thirty plus years?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The platforms, which mix entertainment and education, have an unconventional value proposition. The belief that employers will invest in edutainment benefit platforms is a departure from the traditional pitch that edtech has used to break into this market. When the struggle is more obvious.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Now we’re very excited to reveal one of the fine people who will be judging Startup Battlefield at this year’s all-virtual event in September: Shauntel Garvey, a general partner at Reach Capital, a VC specializing in the world of education technology. Startups: You can apply to be a part of the action here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

The concept was to create an educational event that would provide experience and development for what it took to be a better leader of a global organization. I flew to Washington, DC, and sat down with Warren, then-EO Director Bob Strade, and Ben Richter (who also had a programme to pitch to Warren). I loved the idea and his vision.

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StartupNation

APRIL 21, 2021

As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Be sure to follow these storytelling best practices as you conceptualize your visual pitch: Educate yourself. Your video needs a story arc: a structured, well-documented journey. Key takeaways.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 20, 2024

Come watch six finalists pitch their BIG IDEAS at the 2024 PA Wilds BIG IDEA Contest! The entrepreneurs pitching their BIG IDEAS have developed products, processes, or innovations that contribute to the PA Wilds economy, encompassing sectors like software solutions, farming, and manufacturing. first appeared on BFTP/CNP.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. We don’t want to charge users for access to something they already have.”. Image Credits: Altro.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

The public markets get educated. I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 20, 2024

Come watch six finalists pitch their BIG IDEAS at the 2024 PA Wilds BIG IDEA Contest! The entrepreneurs pitching their BIG IDEAS have developed products, processes, or innovations that contribute to the PA Wilds economy, encompassing sectors like software solutions, farming, and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Commenting on the Series A in a statement, Eugene Belov, managing partner at Redseed, said: “Traditional educational institutions have a hard time keeping up with the rapid pace of technological development in today’s world. And the unique result-oriented way their programs are structured make them highly appealing to modern kids.

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