TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anywhere from 20% to 50% of crypto-related pitches today are DeFi-focused, several investors we surveyed said. As the market looks toward the future, some venture capitalists are revamping their investing strategies, while others are holding to their current plans, with perhaps a small tweak or two. How big is the DeFi market today?

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

From fostering a culture of trust to assigning clear task ownership, explore the diverse strategies and tools in these fourteen responses that can help ensure your team stays on track. By understanding human motivation and implementing effective strategies, leaders can foster a culture of ownership, responsibility, and collective achievement.

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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

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

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

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startups all have different versions of the same pitch: they can offer teachers more money, and flexibility, than the status quo. Startups, looking to get a slice of the teacher economy, suddenly can form an entire pitch around these discrepancies. Underpaid and overworked teachers. Image: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch.

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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.” And while I achieved many of them, I’ve endured plenty of failures, too,” Eric says. Goal-setting tends to improve with time and practice. But the No.1 OKRs-Objectives and Key Results-have transformed how I do business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business. Moranne and I are Millennials, as are most of our staff, so social media, digital strategy and technology is integral to everything we do. Above all, we only pitch people on the companies we would personally interview for.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“As the venture landscape becomes more a meritocratic environment where resumes and institutional affiliations matter less, these strategies can make the difference between a successful fundraise and a fruitless meeting,” says Agya Ventures co-founder Kunal Lunawat. A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

You’ll also get a chance to explore common mistakes and strategies for troubleshooting so you can build off of Tom’s Dream Team experience instead of starting from square one. Their main role in the Dream Team framework is to set a clear and compelling strategy, drive alignment, and liberally share context.

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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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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 have guidelines within our investment framework. That affects your market sizing as well as the go-to-market strategies and resources needed.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Problem Hypothesis Framework One way to do this less organically or test an organic idea is by using the Problem Hypothesis framework, which involves identifying a specific problem you believe your customer is facing. By conducting interviews with potential customers, you validate whether or not this is a problem that they have.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The European Union also recently presented a platform worker reform — saying at the end of last year that it would establish a framework to tackle bogus self employment. “I’m spending most of my professional life in the US. It’s difficult, currently, to invest in Spain compared to other jurisdictions like the U.S.”

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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. DDA’S 2022 “Investing in Africa ” report. .

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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. Some private equity funds are quantifying their exit strategy in a concerted way. Betterfront.io

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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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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. Some private equity funds are quantifying their exit strategy in a concerted way.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The program culminated in a circular Demo Day where startups had a chance to showcase their progress and pitch in front of potential partners and investors. Circularity is part of our broader Environmental Strategy – discover how Impact Hub Global Network is addressing our time’s most pressing issues here.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. In addition to its unique funding structure, Earnest employs a custom tool called “ Trailhead ” to connect and communicate with companies over time, as opposed to a traditional VC pitch. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. —– TinySeed. Industries: Sector-agnostic.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I would say I just described a complicated thing, but it’s actually annual hero metrics, lots of dashboards of input and output metrics, and then goals that are really explaining the strategy, like, “Why do I want to move this thing? Do we have the wrong strategy? Do we have the wrong structure to manifest that strategy?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. In addition to its unique funding structure, Earnest employs a custom tool called “ Trailhead ” to connect and communicate with companies over time, as opposed to a traditional VC pitch. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. —– TinySeed. Industries: Sector-agnostic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Based on my experience, here’s how to avoid making the most common mistakes deep tech founders make when pitching investors: Work on your storytelling. Make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. Investor pitch meetings are not dissertation defenses.

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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

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. Here is the framework I recommend. Find out what terms they got and ask for advice on negotiating strategy. It has just two rules 1.

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Aaron Patzer of Mint compiles four secrets for a perfect startup pitch, backed up by insights from entrepreneurial experts in " 4 Pitching Secrets from an Entrepreneur Whose Company Sold for $170M. 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 then the way those modern data centers are built by the leading-edge companies now is they’re sort of built on day one with an integrated strategy for energy and for cooling. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. I believe that it will.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. You might just have differences of opinion on the direction / strategy of the company or how to handle situations in difficult times. Always Pitch Outsiders for Follow Ons.

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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. Regional cities all across the country can build defensible strategies to help their startup communities rise and thrive. It’s also about establishing a competitive moat.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. The strategy is staying on top of all the trends so other companies don’t have to,” Ji said. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo. Stage: Seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. Although we spend lots of time talking about numbers, metrics and frameworks, there’s an artistic component to entrepreneurship that’s really important.

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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. As 2020 fades into the rearview mirror of history (huzzah!), I recommend going to Early Stage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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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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