Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams Accountability is a cornerstone of startup success, and we’ve gathered insights from CEOs and Founders to learn how they maintain it within their teams. The best way to ensure this accountability is by creating a culture of trust and reliability among employees.

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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 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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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. Gig economy powered by startups.

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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.” Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith. Tal shared what he learned from his first-ever round of raising startup capital. But the No.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.” When VCs turned to Zoom, Chicago startups were ready for their close-up. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anywhere from 20% to 50% of crypto-related pitches today are DeFi-focused, several investors we surveyed said. Both events brought down a lot of smaller startups and big players who intermingled with those now defunct market players. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yeah, baby, we are ready to jump right into a jam-packed day dedicated to the growth and success of the entire early-stage startup ecosystem. Head to the expo hall each day to check out early-stage Startup Battlefield 200 exhibitors and sponsor booths. Billionaire Marc Lore sold his startup to an everything store, twice.

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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? . Today’s internet, Web 2.0,

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For those of us in that category, we’re not really in a position to write $50K–$200K checks, and honestly, we don’t want startups to have crazy cap tables loaded with small-volume investors. 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?

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Several European-based insurtech startups entered unicorn territory this year, such as Bought By Many, which offers pet insurance; London-based Zego; and Alan, a French startup that raised a $220 million round. AI startup investment is on pace for a record year. AI startup investment is on pace for a record year.

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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. Cory Bolotsky , Co-Chair of the VC Platform Global Community shares a ten-component framework to comprehensively cover a VC fund’s Platform Strategy.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem. Awesome Ventures’ first fund focused only on B2B startups in the US and UK. The fund looks to invest in startups addressing climate changes our planet faces.

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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.” Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith. Tal shared what he learned from his first-ever round of raising startup capital. But the No.1

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising. integrated).

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Impact Hub

MARCH 8, 2022

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. The post Growing deal flow into Africa’s startup ecosystem appeared first on Impact Hub. DDA’S 2022 “Investing in Africa ” report. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit Credits: Read on Since 2021, I have made it my goal to guide startups to a product market fit in a structured process. Experience with more than 12 startups is encouraging: the approach saves precious time, increases focus, and identifies problems with the market early.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The Act, which allocates $2 billion to states under the “Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program,” enables investors in undercapitalized regions to leverage federal dollars into startup investments. No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History.

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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. Cory Bolotsky , Co-Chair of the VC Platform Global Community shares a ten-component framework to comprehensively cover a VC fund’s Platform Strategy.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

The 4 critical components of every Dream Team 5 steps to building your Dream Team for fast, aligned results Common pitfalls to avoid when setting your team up for success Every startup begins with a close-knit team. One cannot exist without the other in this framework. Anyone could pitch an idea to the executive team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Other fast growing Spanish startups Typeform , Travel Perk , Heura Foods and Wallapop are suggested as likely candidates to be next in line to join the club. “We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What does adopting a Circular Economy model (circularity) look like for entrepreneurs and startups? What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity? Representatives from the six selected startups, and Impact Hub Kigali team at the program kick-off session.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. is a startup focused on helping VCs in fundraising with transparent metrics. Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. 2) Market . Betterfront.io

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. 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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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. Often, people are unsure of whether they want to risk leaving a stable academic role to pursue a startup. So they take their idea and pitch it to some local VC firms. 4) Exclusivity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. 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. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear , which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups. These were the exact pitches that the teams delivered straight to investors in attendance, so you’ll naturally spot a bit of hyperbole (because, startups).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

But after a couple of years coming to you virtually, the world’s most impactful tech startup conference is coming back to real life. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Marc’s Lore: Startup Schemes, Utopian Dreams. Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures walks through the discussion he has with founders when talking about burn rate in " What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup? " Julie Zhuo of Facebook lists a few of the ways she has practiced getting and staying motivated in " Staying Motivated. Google Inc presses U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. And so either with existing, you know, nuclear fission technology, or there’s actually a significant number, you know, now of new nuclear fission startups, as well as fusion startups working on new designs. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

And now that many startups are running through the venture funding they raised in the go-go-go times of pre-2021, many founders are facing the difficult task of reducing expenses to extend their runway. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. Más o menos.

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