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Save $450,000, and Win Your Next Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Creating financial models, UiPath’s plummet, pitch deck pro tips

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“They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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Armed with experience, insurtech MGAs are paving the way for insurtech 2.0

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on: With tech’s embrace, people were about to soon “love their insurance!”

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How Much Should You Raise in Your VC Round? And What is a VC Looking at in Your Model?

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There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Annoying, I know.

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Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

TechCrunch

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. to select African countries include unicorn Chipper Cash , Lemonade Finance, Zazuu and Sendwave. With Africa being the most expensive region to send money to, with 10.6%

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” She turned down multiple term sheets, and didn’t use a pitch deck. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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Flink, the Berlin-based grocery delivery startup that operates its own ‘dark stores’, raises $52M

TechCrunch

The latest to show its hand is Berlin-based Flink , which today is announcing that it has raised a hefty $52 million in seed financing. Meanwhile, the new financing will be used to expand further within Germany and into additional European markets this year. Cristina Stenbeck from Kinnevik also joins the round in a personal capacity.

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