Dream It

JULY 20, 2020

When you’re raising a bridge round and pitching investors, their first reaction may be that you’re in trouble. In this #DreamitDose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh gives founders tips on how to frame their bridge round ask, overcome assumptions investors often make, and provides a general way to structure startup bridge round pitches.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

I do not pretend to have a silver bullet,” he says, “but I do have a tried-and-true framework you can use to help you achieve your first million.” Guest columns fall into two categories: TechCrunch+: Strategies and tactics for building and scaling startups. .” Thanks for reading TC+ this week!

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We brought on Caya (CEO of Slidebean ) to provide a smart framework on how to find the right cofounders that can hit this mark. Don’t try to sell them on the idea - it’s better to first confirm they recognize the problem and market opportunity. Check out Slidebean to design your next pitch deck.

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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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Dream It

JUNE 2, 2021

They think they’re doing everything correctly when they pitch, but there’s a subtle yet critical flaw -- they’re pitching, but not telling a compelling and believable “story.” Thinking of your pitch as a story will help you shape and deliver something that is so much more powerful and convincing than just a “pitch.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. 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.

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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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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. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Register Led by an eminent team of investors and industry captains from around the world, Awesome Ventures brings together a wealth of experience in strategy planning and diverse sectors. We believe that for every shift in technology, new markets and opportunities are created. We have guidelines within our investment framework.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it. Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? key in vivo data results).

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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. The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. Eliminate distractions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Opportunities are simply opportunities and not long-term plans. How to fix the mistake of losing focus of what really matters: Having a clear strategy in place helps to say NO by agreeing and focusing on goals and priorities. The challenge here is that in a startup, you will probably have to adjust the strategy more often.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

” Nearly 70% responded yes, which means Twitter developers are “likely now asking themselves if they should try to revive the old codebase or start from scratch ,” writes Marcus Merrell, vice president of technology strategy at Sauce Labs.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Diversify your ad strategy, test different ideas and don’t give up if your ad doesn’t show results right away.”. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Opportunity slide. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. to 17 cents. Definitely don’t chase trends,” advises Liparteliani.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. What to consider before building your VC platform strategy. Fundraising. Recruiting.

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

These tips range from defining the competitive space to defining and executing the right sales strategy and will help you decide the key actions to take, regardless of your product. Tip #2: The initial sales strategy is essential. But first, some basics. What are early markets? Yet today, we can’t imagine our lives without them.

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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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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. What to consider before building your VC platform strategy. Fundraising. Recruiting.

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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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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. Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week! I hope you have an excellent weekend.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“The opportunity for entrepreneurs in real estate tech across search, listings, mortgage, insurance, construction and sustainability is the kind that shows up once a generation.” In the meantime, someone needs to make fundamental decisions regarding cloud infrastructure and strategy. How are they currently solving this problem?

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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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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2022

The strategy has a bad reputation, but when done right, it’s super effective Photo: GettyImages Who says cold emails don’t work? I’ve deconstructed a framework for the cold outreach to strangers, which was more beneficial than any other marketing tactics and created opportunities for myself that never would have occurred.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The startup’s wider pitch and “social mission” is to use (first party) household finance data and (third party) vendor data to build models that can progressively automate the management of essential service switching and/or contact renegotiating to offer a sort of household savings-as-a-(subscription)-service.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. 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. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hoping for the best is not a strategy, and your employers will say whatever they need to keep you focused and productive. If you’ve been nurturing an idea for a company, put together a pitch deck and start reaching out now to investors: they will be more receptive than you think. .” Samantha Lewis, principal, Mercury.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. The mission is the elevator pitch. ” And so that framework helps think that through before you start talking to folks, which I think is very smart. How are you advising founders on their talent strategy right now? We do back channels.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 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. Betterfront.io

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 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. 8) Monitor .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity, including Flexible VC.

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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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