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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. Strategies for crafting a strong and compelling vision for your startup: Towards the end of your pitch, tell investors that “this is just the beginning” for your startup. It’s not about the slide deck.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

TechCrunch

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market.

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This Gen Z founder is pitching hundreds of investors… via Venmo

TechCrunch

I set aside four hours with only a pen and a piece of paper in front of me, not allowing myself to do anything other than brainstorm until I had a strategy,” says Herndon. donations with a bunch of random pitches for startups? ” Not all investors agree on that particular point. “Would I love to receive a ton of $0.02

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Alto Pharmacy’s $200M Series E deck

TechCrunch

We’re thrilled this new funding will enable us to continue to define this evolving industry and to help even more patients get the care they deserve.”. Having read all of this, I was curious to see how a company tells the above story in the form of a pitch deck to investors. Cover slide — Commercial and growth strategy.

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How to DIY Your Public Relations Strategy During COVID-19

StartupNation

Below are several suggestions for how to develop a DIY public relations strategy and publicize your startup during COVID-19: Pursue virtual opportunities. A large benefit, to you, in pitching yourself for these virtual opportunities is the ability to participate from your home office – no travel required.

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3 ways the Olympics are similar to entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When I’m invited to participate in a round of pitching to potential investors, it’s more often than not part of a company’s marketing strategy around proving to the world that they care about equity for women. Taking care of my own mental health enables me to reset, regroup and refresh my resolve.

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i2E Celebrates Success of Inaugural Bridge2 Demo Day

Innovation 2 Enterprise

During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort. The Bridge2 program is an 8-week pre-accelerator designed to prepare scalable, tech-enabled startup companies for Oklahoma-based accelerator programs and to pursue funding from private and public investment sources.