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The Quality You Never Hear Pitched When People Want in to Venture Capital

This is going to be BIG.

I went through eight years of Jesuit education, both at Regis High School and Fordham University--and one of the tenets they tried to convey was to be "Men and Women for Others". I think of venture capital as a service business. No one ever tells me how generous they are, or shows it. That's largely how I think about my job.

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The slow-burn standardization of venture capital

TechCrunch

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors.

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Triet Nguyen: Navigating the World of Tech Investing and Pioneering in Venture Capital

Jason Malki

Born in Vietnam and raised in Texas, he recently relocated to Louisville, Kentucky, upon joining Render Capital earlier this year. Triet’s journey in the world of investing began as a self-taught retail trader, a path he pursued to support his college education. At its core, venture capital involves making educated bets.

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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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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. With overhead like that, it’s going to be impossible for the local schools to educate good startup talent at the rate that the community can educate itself.

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

TechCrunch

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. “We don’t see that commitment from other banks.”

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Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck

TechCrunch

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. And the CEO adds that honestly, not much changed aesthetically between that first pitch and the Series A deck. “It I thought that was a really wild idea.