StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

When pitching your product, you’ll need to be able to clearly convey how your startup is different from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, what your vision of the product is, and even how you envision the metaverse will evolve. Why start with innovators? Otherwise, how will they know your solution is any good? The bottom line.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

Mirroring the entrepreneur training, SDAC provides investor training through an enhanced pitch competition run over a three-month series of events that culminate in a one-day conference, where a winner is awarded funds raised by the investors. It’s even more important in attracting people new to investing.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

If given an opportunity to take seed capital on a discounted fee basis from an anchor investor, I’d always do that deal on a vehicle-specific basis. A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Ability to access LPs who require a meaningful AUM before they’ll consider you.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

If given an opportunity to take seed capital on a discounted fee basis from an anchor investor, I’d always do that deal on a vehicle-specific basis. A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Ability to access LPs who require a meaningful AUM before they’ll consider you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding. Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. Get feedback.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. At TechCrunch Early Stage, she led a session on how to nail your virtual pitch meeting.

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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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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. 20% initial ownership. —– TinySeed.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I do my own reference calls. ” 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. I am the first one to question, “Is this the right person?” ” In the hiring committee meeting.

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