Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

To be effective, a startup’s pricing strategy must align with its marketing case studies, website messaging, PR releases and sales pitches. Your Startup’s Unit Economics Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. The value of your business is the discounted sum of all its future profits.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 14, 2020

If you want to expand your network, engage with serial entrepreneurs, participate in discussions with experts in marketing, sales and finance to help shape your business and develop a pitch presentation, then you’ll want to register for Ben Franklin’s Fall 2020 TechCelerator – To Apply: [link]. Your only cost is your time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Since Stilt has state lending licenses and an existing compliance framework, it says it is able to help companies develop their own credit offerings while it manages “all the complexity of origination, payments and credit reporting” for them. 10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? key in vivo data results). If you’re building a horizontal business model (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To put this capability in reach of any embedded hardware engineer, the company has developed an open source library that enables developers to create these different generic profiles. Prior to creating this framework, engineers would typically create custom code for each component on a board, a time-consuming and frustrating process.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“The ultimate product for Plume is a comprehensive, cloud-driven platform that enables consumers to curate, manage and deliver these services. But if you are not already using it, chances are that you may be getting pitched a service using its technology, or will be soon. That’s what the company is about.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The new cash will be used to support product development and R&D efforts, CEO Matthew Carroll said, as well as expand Immuta’s sales, marketing, customer success, and support teams and enable “key” acquisitions in the data monitoring space. “We don’t see that slowing down.” ” Image Credits: Immuta.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

His latest venture, The Brain Wrx , revolutionizes the way founders approach and grasp growth by providing a straightforward and effective framework for success. It all begins with an idea and where there is an idea, eventually there is a pitch deck. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” Predibase is built on top of open source technologies including Horovod, a framework for AI model training, and Ludwig, a suite of machine learning tools. Predibase is designed to enable developers to define AI pipelines in just a few lines of code while scaling up to petabytes of data across thousands of machines.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The Act, which allocates $2 billion to states under the “Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program,” enables investors in undercapitalized regions to leverage federal dollars into startup investments. Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is plausible when it engages with the gorilla in question using the latter’s startup partnering interface, such as an accelerator or contest to pitch its solution to a pain point of the gorilla. Understanding the synergy-interface- exemplar partnering process is important. But more needs to be done.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

We have guidelines within our investment framework. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas. We find that deviating away from our investment thesis opens us to more mistakes in our due diligence.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The startup’s wider pitch and “social mission” is to use (first party) household finance data and (third party) vendor data to build models that can progressively automate the management of essential service switching and/or contact renegotiating to offer a sort of household savings-as-a-(subscription)-service.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Capria leads the “largest network of collaborating fund managers in emerging markets” Their product Edge enables you to benchmark your internal processes against other investors. Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. Some funds are using technology-enabled intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs, e.g., Artivest and iCapital Network. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl. 10) Report.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s a wonderful framework by Bill Macaitis, who was the CMO at Zendesk and Slack. The framework breaks down the key marketing operational roles into six buckets. The framework breaks down the key marketing operational roles into six buckets. The value of this framework is two-fold. Where does the company play?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 9, 2023

The first was to stimulate, enable and strengthen the local network of entrepreneurial communities, connecting interested stakeholders from all backgrounds (private sector, Civil Society Organisations, government and academy, for instance). The programme was divided into four phases – inspiration, training, idealisation, and reinforcement.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The first was to stimulate, enable and strengthen the local network of entrepreneurial communities, connecting interested stakeholders from all backgrounds (private sector, Civil Society Organizations, government and academy, for instance). The program was divided into four phases – inspiration, training, idealization and reinforcement.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular. From the initial questions, the network moved to testing and piloting with local Impact Hubs. The six startups embedding circularity.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. —– TinySeed.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. —– TinySeed.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 31, 2021

You will also develop a pitch presentation that could win you up to $10,000. The goal of the 10-week program is to provide a framework that will enable you to determine if it’s the right time to start your tech-business. All you will spend is your time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image Credits: Rittikrai_PIX (opens in a new window) / Getty Images In the final article of a five-part series , growth marketing expert Jonathan Martinez shares the key metrics he tracked at Coinbase and Uber, along with a framework for activating and retaining early adopters who drive revenue.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022. Minerva Lithium has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel and extracts critical materials from brine in just three days. Intropic Materials. Minerva Lithium.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Adora Cheung [02:13] – Most of these people, before Meesho existed, did they even have a business or most of them you have enabled them to even have a business in the first place? When we started off, we were just enabling existing guys who were doing this, because we saw this behavior. Now, you can offer a better variety.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 31, 2023

Throughout the 10-week program, you’ll be able to explore the likelihood of success, discuss your business model and financials with experts, expand your network, engage with other entrepreneurs, and develop a pitch deck for funding opportunities.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Telling your story isn't just about conveying information about your company--it's about giving someone a framework that makes them feel like they know how to be successful as well. AND NOW I'LL PRETEND THAT I WASN'T REALLY PITCHING AND I'LL BE ALL MODEST ABOUT IT. We are a technology-enabled [WHAT WE DO]. Otherwise, who cares?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

To be effective, a startup’s pricing strategy must align with its marketing case studies, website messaging, PR releases and sales pitches. Your Startup’s Unit Economics: Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. This is one framework. If you have others, or additions, email me.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Deep research and quantitative frameworks are sorely lacking in today’s short attention span news approach. When you materially improve an offering, and create new features, functions, experiences, price points, and even enable new use cases, you can materially expand the market in the process.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 10, 2022

From delivering the right pitch to upskilling when necessary, there are several business basics to perfect when looking to start a business. Here is what 12 thought leaders had to say: Deliver the right pitch. Entrepreneurs pitch their companies every hour of the day. Brett Farmiloe, Terkel. Master sales. David Bitton, Doorloop.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

WebAssembly (Wasm for short) is an open standard that enables browser-based applications to run with near-native performance, Frederic reports. Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 Here’s how to give it to them, T.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Pharma companies have been trying to enable oral absorption of large molecule drugs for years. Others won’t take one at all.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. I know Shaan, you love frameworks. The Hustle My First Million Episode #197. Full Episode Transcript Below. Yeah and so -.

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