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The Ideal Pitch Deck is a Story, a Science, and an Art

StartupNation

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.

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Egypt’s Breadfast wants to build ‘Gopuff for Africa and Middle East’, gets $26M backing

TechCrunch

To that end, Breadfast , an online grocery delivery company that wants to become a regional leader in the sector has raised $26 million in Series A financing from an impressive group of investors. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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How capital-as-a-service can help you get your first check in 2021

TechCrunch

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. in my alternative financing panel next week for TC Sessions: Justice.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it? The mission is the elevator pitch. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role?

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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

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Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. What about pitch competitions that sound like Ancient Roman death matches? The person goes on to blame the uncommonness of the name.

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Target Global leads $150M round for Amazon Marketplace consolidator Branded

TechCrunch

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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Arlan Hamilton wants to reroute how startups hire

TechCrunch

Before Backstage, Hamilton was a production coordinator and tour manager for musicians (she continues to pepper music references into her work as an investor). When she was building Backstage, she began using runners in her own life, hiring people for one-day help while meeting founders across the country.

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