TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Well, that’s the world Five Flute wants to live in. The company raised a $1.2 Slides in this deck.

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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. Compared to a SaaS startup, the investment required to build a team, acquire research funding and ensure regulatory compliance can be staggering.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Marketing strategy actually is quite important to most investors. Invested Interests Power Pitches business plan investors marketing pitching product startup' The bottom line is that if no one shows up to buy or use your product, it doesn’t matter one whit how cool or great or innovative it is.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Nancy Wang Contributor Share on Twitter Nancy Wang is the general manager and director of engineering for AWS Data Protection and a venture partner at Felicis Ventures on enterprise infrastructure investments. There’s no more room for a good product winning over a CISO despite a bad pitch. How does your solution help me sell more X?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. MyEO DX attracts EO members who are looking to transform or reinvent their business strategies or overall engagement with entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Putting upfront why this is a problem worth solving — and who it’s affecting — is a great strategy. It’s so well done I want to, well, invest.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

11 Startup Content Marketing Strategies That Actually Work To help startups navigate the complex world of content marketing, we’ve gathered eleven successful strategies from industry professionals, including CEOs and Content Marketing Managers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. In his latest article, he explains why copying your rivals’ most successful marketing strategies can be one of the fastest ways to get traction with new customers.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this guest Dreamit Dose, Jason Calacanis (@jason), a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular podcasts This Week in Startups and Angel, answers the top 5 questions he gets about angel investing. Jason advises that you should not base your strategy on outliers. How do you attract angel investors?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

“My 2 cents on why you should invest in my company,” reads the message she received, along with a $0.02 ” Herndon claims that those messages were the beginning of a string of meetings that may well result in an investment. donations with a bunch of random pitches for startups? “I had to get scrappy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

Founder of Unicorn Capital and Minimal Capital, Evan Fisher 's pitching and investor strategy has helped startups raise more than $2.5 Even if the only benefit was that other investment committee members heard the story direct from the founder, that alone would make your video pitch worth it. Evan Fisher. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s be honest, there are not a lot of companies that raise five rounds of institutional growth funding, with half a billion dollars worth of investment raised along the way. Having read all of this, I was curious to see how a company tells the above story in the form of a pitch deck to investors. Slides in this deck.

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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. They deliberately are not investment bankers or accountants because they do not want to constantly pour over endless spreadsheets or dive deep into financial models.

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StartupNation

MAY 31, 2021

A business pitch is a presentation put together to entice an investor or group of investors. The goal of your pitch is to secure funding to proceed with your value proposition so you can take your idea to the market. Remember, the pitch process is about getting investors to back people ; it’s not about backing products and markets.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. I don’t have enough traction. This isn’t surprising.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 30, 2023

Even with the right people and strategy, young businesses still need sufficient investment to really hum. But that’s where Investment Ready comes in, it wraps around young businesses and prepares them with the confidence and capability to pitch to different investment sources. investment-ready.

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StartupNation

JUNE 7, 2021

It may seem counterintuitive to think of your exit strategy in the early stages of starting and running your business, as there is much to do as a young company — product development, go-to market strategy, hiring, etc. Your exit strategy is one of the first things a potential equity investor will ask about.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s no magic formula for creating a winning pitch deck, which is why most of the articles we run on this topic continually emphasize the fundamentals. Venture capitalists are like judges at a gymnastics competition: Each pitch will be assessed for its technical quality and difficulty, but execution and artistry is just as important.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

For this week’s Pitch Deck Teardown, I’m (virtually) traveling to Sweden to take a look at the $3 million seed round raised by developer tool startup Encore. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Slides in this deck.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Below are several suggestions for how to develop a DIY public relations strategy and publicize your startup during COVID-19: Pursue virtual opportunities. A large benefit, to you, in pitching yourself for these virtual opportunities is the ability to participate from your home office – no travel required.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment to build two new Fabs (chip manufacturing facilities) in Arizona along with plans to increase capacity in other parts of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Card Blanch’s $460K deck for its angel round. Pitch Deck Teardown: Card Blanch’s $460K deck for its angel round. How to solve the financial close dilemma: 3 strategies that never fail. ” How to solve the financial close dilemma: 3 strategies that never fail. Revenue model slide.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

But in too many communities entrepreneurship is an underutilized and underleveraged strategy for economic growth. In my role as an ecosystem builder in Sacramento, I’m doubling down on my efforts to raise awareness about entrepreneurship and ecosystem building as an economic development strategy to civic and business leaders in our region.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It can be referred to as your elevator pitch. Investing time and effort into defining your idea and what you’re all about in a way others can easily understand, a way that points out the benefits of your idea. The post Proven Strategies for Brainstorming Business Names appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

In his latest TechCrunch+ column, Jonathan Martinez says it’s time to “re-forecast, re-prioritize and refine” strategies to move key growth metrics like ARPU and LTV. Will a weaker euro lead to greater US investment in European startups? Will a weaker euro lead to greater US investment in European startups?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The Future is Uncertain, Your Pitch Deck (and Profitability) Can’t be On the off chance you need to be reminded, factors that can make or break your business are unpredictable, and 2020 has reminded us in no uncertain terms how quickly market opportunities, customer demands, and institutions can change irrevocably at a moment’s notice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Nichols joined us on TechCrunch Early Stage to discuss his strategies for early-stage investing, and how those lessons can translate into a successful launch for budding entrepreneurs. This ability helps VCs know where to focus their attention and, eventually, how to weed out the snake oil from the true value pitches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. I think there are two reasons for this: 1. inside insight into VC decision-making.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2023

I had a strong personal network and brand in the Hong Kong region, and I had no trouble finding local entrepreneurs who wanted to pitch Fresco Capital for funding. Soon, I found myself with an extremely packed schedule but little excitement about any prospective investments. Time flew by, and I was finally producing results.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Invest in continuous deployment automation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Orange’s $2.5M million seed round to scale up plans to build a charger network for multiunit properties, and its founders shared their winning pitch deck with TechCrunch+: Cover slide Mission slide Problem slide Macroeconomic market slide (“Why now?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings. He invested his own money to hire Tetra’s first engineer, who built the company’s MVP. So he changed strategy, implementing a three-step process that allowed him to identify investors that would be interested in his startup. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Harris says that, with any investment (particularly at the early stage of a company), the decision really comes down to the team and more importantly, the founder. They also gave live feedback on pitch decks submitted by the audience in the Pitch Deck Teardown. (If Pitch deck teardown — 33:00. Episode breakdown.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion. In more than two decades as an angel investor and early-stage company scout, I’ve met with hundreds of entrepreneurs seeking funds and sat through an equal number of slide deck pitches. More posts by this contributor. You could say I’ve seen it all. Resist the temptation!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Black Ops Ventures wants to shake up the norm and invest in Black founders as its focus. TechCrunch spoke with Norman about the fund, curious about its general strategy. Per the founding member, Black Ops will invest at the seed stage, writing checks into rounds worth a few million dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. A Tale of Two Pitches. is important.

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