StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

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. We work with founders to help them tell their company stories, so we get to see hundreds of decks and talk to dozens of companies every month. Pitch deck + story.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I get a lot of pitch deck submissions for this TechCrunch Pitch Deck Teardown series from people who are raising friend and family rounds, and I mostly pass on them. Are the founders the right people to solve this problem? It was against that backdrop that I received the pitch deck for the Palau Project. Problem slide.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Founders should think of three primary documents as their “holy trinity”: the deck, the strategy memo and the forecast model. I have also heard it referred to as a “narrative deck” — basically a detailed, written version of your pitch. I see the deck almost as a derivative of the strategy memo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Men’s Journal breaks down the simple genius of the business model, and TechRound has an interview with the founder that dissects the details of the company, its founder and its formation. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Perfect pitch, a singer’s ability to produce any given musical note without a reference tone, is a rare phenomenon — only 1-5 people out of every 10,000 have it. While your odds of creating a perfect pitch deck that captures coveted VC interest aren’t quite that dire, they’re not exactly in your favor, either.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. They all refer to the Hola! There have been many victories and defeats throughout the journey, but I want to highlight three mistakes that led to detachment between the founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

I’m sure you know, but Elon was the co-founder (and largest shareholder) of PayPal, the most important payment transfer technology of its era and still the most instrumental to date. It is Nikolas Tesla pitching a VC firm. The first time I met Mark Suster he was the founder and CEO of a company called BuildOnline.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health. If your business is a success you are a success.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

One founder even told me over drinks and fancy snacks that they weren’t worried about losing talent — because those who leave just because there’s an in-person mandate weren’t truly mission-driven to begin with. While some founders are clearly set on a return, others are confused. As always, you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you’re a company’s founder in an early market, you know how hard it can be to cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream customers. Early markets are by no means easy to tackle, so in this post, I’ll discuss seven tips that will help founders navigate these difficult waters. The bottom line.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Not all money is created equal: A VC’s advice for founders. I recently wrote a piece discussing how all capital is not created equal and we are living in a period of super-abundant funding — in many ways, the best times ever for founders. In this context, promises of exclusive value-add resonate deeply. The narcissist.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution. When it comes time to craft a pitch for funders, the KISS Canvas covers 80% of a typical Pitch Deck by telling the very information investors want to know, in the order they generally want to hear it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Investors like former WhatsApp product designer Anton Borzov and Looksery co-founder Yurii Monastyrshyn, among others, also backed the company. “We The visual reference tool is probably handy for set directors that want to visualize props for certain scenes. In 2024, it will roll out in Hindi and Chinese.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Created by DocSend It’s clear that 2020 has thrown a wrench in the gears of startup fundraising; conferences are canceled, meetings are virtual and spontaneous, in-person investor/founder meet-and-greets are almost completely nonexistent. Founders can learn from the experience of other startups to best navigate this situation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’ll be a valuable tool for founders exploring a fundraise this year (or during any economic downturn). Get as much feedback from trusted advisors/investors/founders as it’ll be the primary way investors first come across your product. Once you have the list handy, reach out to the specific founder with an intro request.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of my role as a partner of HealthInc, I sit on the jury for the startup competition in which 20 finalists pitch their ventures, with 10 then selected to enter the program. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman once said, “Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling the plane on the way down.”. Keep it short.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

In celebration of Women’s History Month, i2E is proud to shine a spotlight on two remarkable women founders who have not only engaged with i2E’s programs and resources but have also left an indelible mark in their respective industries. Practice in pitching and answering tough questions has prepared us to begin raising funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

Most innovation models refer to the final stage of the process as “execution” or “implementation”–making it sound very straightforward. A fantastic example is Demis Hassabis, co-founder of the machine learning AI lab DeepMind. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Raising a Series A is a different ball game from raising a seed round, and for Akilesh Bapu, CEO and co-founder of AI-powered medical transcription platform DeepScribe, giving prospective investors a hard deadline while leaning on early investors for support and guidance made all the difference. References. Prepare for due diligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Day One Ventures , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year. million fund to back founders spinning out of turbulent startups. At least 0.1%

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

Some of the top startup accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, maker spaces, investor groups, and founder support groups are located in San Francisco, making it the ideal location to visit. The meetings included co-working spaces, accelerators, investor groups, tech giants, University startup hubs, maker groups, and pitch events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

I counsel first-time VCs (as well as founders) to have mid-funnel strategies to get from first LP meeting to close and to put a disproportionate amount of time into this area (I say more about this on the podcast starting at timecode 27:41). It’s the mid and bottom funnel that’s hard.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. If you are a sports fan, you will have regularly heard how important it is to have a team of leaders on the pitch, not just rely on one. High performing teams have more fun!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

million seed round , and I already talked with the company’s founder about what it takes to de-risk hardware products. As part of that interview, I managed to talk the team into letting me take a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise the $1.5 Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. Reference Calls I do the exact same for reference calls.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

A pitch deck for Anthropic’s Series C fundraising round discloses these and other long-term goals for the company, which was founded in 2020 by former OpenAI researchers. “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 27, 2017

Founders don't start companies so they can spend half their time asking people for money and VCs don't love the dance either. It's fine if you want to learn about blockchain or you never do pre-product and maybe the founder will oblige your curiosity at some point, but right now, they need cash, so don't waste their time if chances are 0%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Neal has seen this industry from just about every angle — as a teacher, advisor, investor and repeat co-founder. In 2011 he co-founded what is often referred to as the “first coding bootcamp,” with The Starter League, acquired by New York’s Fullstack Academy in 2016.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. But I would hope that a reasonably competent founder could easily educate herself about what information an investor wants with some basic research. Here’s our checklist: Overview. The first page.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

If there’s any tech founder who can put his finger on the pulse of what social media users actually want, it’s Terrell — especially with an all-star team of advisors and colleagues in his corner. Like Twitter, Spill will have a live news feed where users can post “spills,” a reference to the phrase “spill the tea.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Investors, myself included, see hundreds, if not thousands, of decks The #1 repeating mistake I see in a deck is that the customer story is missing; moreover, in nearly every pitch deck, the “story” is incomplete or entirely missing. I’m often wondering how much a founder works on their mindset. The big idea Set up the story arc.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 24, 2021

Whether you are working with the company’s very first investors, or trying to build out the syndicate for a round, once a founder makes a successful pitch to an investor or group of investors, the next step is always more involved. As most angels know, a lot of investors refer to this kind of meeting as a “deep dive meeting.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. The mission is the elevator pitch. Many founders I’ve worked with are like, “well, that’s why you’re here. Key takeaways Write a MOC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 The startup isn’t sitting too far from companies like AngelList, which is unbundling the founder experience, and Republic, which is trying to make it easier for anyone to invest in startups. Like, a hiring bounty system.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Featuring founders from 30 countries and startups across sectors including developer tools, fintech and healthcare, the day saw no shortage of compelling pitches. This morning, Y Combinator (YC) hosted a demo day for its 2022 Summer Cohort — the 35th demo day in the incubator’s history. Monterey AI.

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