Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. They have an opportunity to set realistic expectations for achievable goals. But when you let people make their own decisions, then a few things happen.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest? Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Teacher departures are a loss for public schools, but an opportunity for startups racing to win a share of the changing teacher economy. The startups all have different versions of the same pitch: they can offer teachers more money, and flexibility, than the status quo. Underpaid and overworked teachers.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Aim, instead, to assess opportunities objectively. Some thousands of pitch decks later, he looks for the following key questions and points to be addressed in founder pitch decks: Who is your customer? Not having an appropriate framework by which to evaluate the opportunity. Client segments? How do we solve it?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s mandatory, and collaboration between AT&T and startups at all stages could push the world forward and provide the framework for innovation. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Making Care Actually Work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. And if you have ever discussed an idea for starting a company with a friend, think about working on a pitch deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: Wilco’s $7 million seed deck.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. FirstMark Platform’s 100+ annual events and 50,000+ members are also extensive customer opportunities for their portcos. Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Even so, many entrepreneurs squander this opportunity, often because they direct questions or fail to understand their BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement). A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. Investors are looking for a reason to say “yes.” I hope you have an excellent weekend.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” By streamlining processes and defining roles and responsibilities for greater accountability, increased profitability opportunities become visible and provide the potential for exponential growth.” But the No.1

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. FirstMark Platform’s 100+ annual events and 50,000+ members are also extensive customer opportunities for their portcos. Fundraising.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. The core objective of SBIR was to de-risk commercial opportunities in high-technology areas in an effort to attract more venture capital into the most promising ones.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

We believe that for every shift in technology, new markets and opportunities are created. He revealed that the team’s cohesion and experience, market opportunity, month-over-month growth, revenue growth or annual recurring revenue (ARR), and product growth and roadmap are the key aspects that capture their attention.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 8, 2022

This decade has seen the rise of a new generation of entrepreneurs creating opportunities and tackling some of the biggest challenges of our time. The initiative provides a 1-month access to coaching and training that offers investment-ready support to prepare startups to network and pitch to investors through a Virtual Investment Event.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

” EsTech’s lobbying will presumably seek to establish and/or reframe the narrative around high growth platforms to one of opportunity, job and wealth creation. The final shape of that pan-EU regulation is still pending the bloc’s co-legislative process so the opportunity for lobbying to influence the detail remains live.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Much of this paralysis is due to a lack of framework for determining the value of a test.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

These raw materials are finite, and to exacerbate the situation, the used products are largely dumped in various landfills, missing the opportunity for extra value creation, and adding pressure to the environment. I like the feeling of not knowing and the opportunity to learn.” – Plante Josue from Aflimba. .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe. This move also undoubtedly created more inbound M&A opportunities for them. . 8) Monitor .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe. This move also undoubtedly created more inbound M&A opportunities for them. . 8) Monitor .

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Impact Hub

APRIL 9, 2023

The overall goal of encouraging sustainable solutions in the Semente Verde framework stands for an effort to mitigate the consequences of plastic waste generation and the over-consumption of natural resources in Bissau, targeting the Sustainable Development Goals success on a regional level.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The overall goal of encouraging sustainable solutions in the Semente Verde framework stands for an effort to mitigate the consequences of plastic waste generation and the overconsumption of natural resources in Bissau, targeting the Sustainable Development Goals success on a regional level.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. Claire Hughes Johnson : It really was the founders and the opportunity I saw in the company and the people. And Eric Schmidt came out and talked about this framework of like 70/20/10, 70% on the core, 20% new areas that are showing some traction, 10% R&D.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Truly great CEOs are scarce, and they usually have much better opportunities available to them than running an idea-stage startup with no funding. So they take their idea and pitch it to some local VC firms. As important as this decision is, founders often don’t have a good framework for making it.

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David Teten VC

MAY 26, 2021

The obvious solution is to get in touch with your friends who have earlier raised or pitched to the family offices. A number of other firms offer access both to direct investment opportunities and funds, e.g., iSTOX , Sharenett , Manhattan Street Capital , Proteus , and Yieldstreet. A Framework for Venture Capital Fund Law.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Just these three contracts are a $46 million opportunity. Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Yes, Chief.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. And so I think this is an opportunity for the defenders to not only keep up, but also build better systems for the present-day threat landscape, also. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. I believe that it will. And so it’s kind of, everybody ends up happy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.” There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

But the key to success is about more than just clever branding and a good elevator pitch. Let’s use Morningstar’s 5 Factors as a framework. This framework can offer a helpful shared language for community stakeholders who want to explain why their cities has a competitive advantage. What makes up a moat?

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. When evaluating opportunities, great leaders can articulate the risks of a given bet and the reasons why they can be overcome. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? And it’s fun!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

We’re talking everything from legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. Attend both to double your knowledge, double your networking, double your opportunities. This conference was so popular that we’re hosting two virtual TC Early Stage events this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities. EDT/9 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” Carroll pitches Immuta as an “enterprise-scale” alternative to manual processes for creating and implementing data policies. The CDG reported in May that frameworks to address digital privacy at the state and local government level are only in the “nascent stages.” ” Image Credits: Immuta.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Today a startup called Plume — which has built a mesh-Wi-Fi platform that helps optimize broadband connectivity and then uses it to deliver a range of smarter home services to some 22 million homes globally — is announcing a major funding round of $270 million that underscores the opportunity to fix that, and more.

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