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Social Media and Thought Leadership for Founders

This is going to be BIG.

Similar to the longer form posts, try to think of sharing something meaningful that you want people seeing when they search for you—like why you started your company, what’s important to you about this business, or something specific about your leadership style. you’ll cross post across your various channels.

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Startup Fundraising that Meets Investor Expectations

American Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs seek to find the right investor and to make the best pitch when the opportunity comes Entrepreneurs start their companies with great passion and big dreams. That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth.

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From Plan to Benevolent World Domination with the KISS Canvas

Paul G. Silva

A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution. When it comes time to craft a pitch for funders, the KISS Canvas covers 80% of a typical Pitch Deck by telling the very information investors want to know, in the order they generally want to hear it.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

YC suffered its own excesses at the height of the bubble, growing class sizes and drifting up into the growth investing business, but under the leadership of Garry Tan have acted quickly to refocus and rightsize in support of their core mission).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: CEO pregnancy checklist, decision-tree planning, reassessing valuations

TechCrunch

“Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech lined with funders and advisers that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.” How would she break the news to her leadership team and employees? Your startup pitch deck needs an operating plan.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Leadership role – somebody has to take up the challenge to lead the efforts. The first 6 months: Challenges and Wins.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation identifies entrepreneurs that display characteristics of “exceptional social leadership through discretion, influence, vision, ambition, intelligence, and follow-through.”. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Requires Columbia affiliation.

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