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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. If you’re pitching impact, make it real. For instance, when pitching to a retail conglomerate, it can be very helpful to focus on metrics like inventory turnover rates and relationships with suppliers.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

To be effective, a startup’s pricing strategy must align with its marketing case studies, website messaging, PR releases and sales pitches. The best way for a startup to ensure its price is reasonably optimal is to create a framework for evaluating price and revisit the data a few times per year.

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A look inside my vibe coding portfolio

The Zapier Blog

The senders are seeking expert insights that have the potential to earn me backlinks and give me an opportunity to contribute thought leadership. The agent then: Identifies the most relevant pitches based on my scoring logic (i.e., Shares the most relevant opportunities and the RAG response in Slack for me to review and send.

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SEO strategies: A guide to people-first ranking in the age of AI

The Zapier Blog

Embrace E-E-A-T: Build trust and authority E-E-A-T (or experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness) is Google's framework for gauging the quality and credibility of content. To do this, you'll need to pitch to writers and editors directly. Time to put all that persuasive essay practice to good use.

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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

TechCrunch

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind.

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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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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. The continent is also home to more than 1.2