TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

She graduated with high honors from Harvard, is a member of the World Economic Forum and is a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at it. You have just 170 seconds. exit strategy”. just X percent”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

A $500,000 Opportunity, Presented by Wells Fargo One of the most anticipated features of the Forum is the $500K Capital Pitch Competition, presented by Wells Fargo, which is also the title sponsor of the entire event. In just two years, it has invested nearly $1 million in small businesses and now connects over 26,000 members nationwide.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2022

Plan, practice and pitch. As you begin to share your story with other entrepreneurs and investors, make sure you practice your pitch, in order to be comfortable with clearly communicating your ideas and motivations. As GSEA Alumnus Richard Cho said, “Show your boldness, bravery and leadership.”.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. I don’t try to optimize for who might be a great investment opportunity or somebody that I really “should know.” Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. I’ve been pitched by hundreds of entrepreneurs who never actually asked me whether I would invest. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. Even today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

In the video I describe how to best play this meeting and why, without a champion going into the meeting, you’re unlikely to get an investment. This isn’t weakness – it’s leadership. If you make it past this stage you will go to a “full partners meeting&# which is exactly what it sounds like.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Lay the groundwork before the event and apply to become a speaker or invest in a tradeshow booth. Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. In addition to high-level conferences, where else can you meet CEOs? Look for CEO roundtables and forums.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Unfortunately, startups are not one-man shows, so entrepreneurs need to study leadership as much as they study technology. In fact, we can all benefit from focusing on the keys to people leadership from time to time. Pearce characterizes good leadership as the place where soul and science meet. Start today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with what it means to be an early-stage founder pitching your vision: You have to have Elon Musk-level ambition, big dreams and the ability to sell a company to investors before there are any real metrics behind it. What is this, revenue growth for ants?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. In fintech, the problem is especially prominent: Women-founded fintechs have raised a meager 1% of total fintech investment in the last 10 years. of total investment dollars. More posts by this contributor.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

Unfortunately, the blueprint and operating manual for how your CEO brain works doesn’t really come off in a pitch meeting. Do any of those things do a great job at answering an investor’s question of how your CEO brain works and what they can count on from you in the future if they were to invest?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. It’s one of the major criticisms of cryptocurrency operations and something that many in the industry are trying to address. billion last year. billion last year.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This annual gathering brings together a dynamic mix of entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists from the surrounding states, creating a fertile ground for innovation, networking, and investment opportunities. With a rigorous selection process, only the most promising tech-enabled companies get the chance to pitch.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

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. First, they need to know the investment alternatives available for their business and then determine how to meet the expectations of those investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The nonprofit Dallas Entrepreneur Center offers public tours, but if you want to practice your pitch or get feedback, you can also apply to present as part of its 1 Million Cups program. The post The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our meeting was memorable both because the pitch was compelling but also because it was the first pitch meeting I ever took in our new Santa Monica offices. We found tremendous value in this idea of a two-city startup with some business leadership / management in one city (LA) and much of the development in another (Helsinki).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I have a full life of friends and family, a portfolio of investments that I’m working with, an investor coaching business , a thought leadership course , I play softball, ice hockey, compete in triathlons and run a non-profit kayaking program that I started. Why do we have to do this little dance? Are you fundraising?

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

The investment platform I founded and run, VenturePole, is the investment partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp, the biggest startup accelerator organization in Europe. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS).

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Sessions are all about how to improve angel investing and manage angel groups, as well as connecting with other industry players and getting technical presentations. The first day is full of optional educational seminars from The Power of Angel Investing series, developed by the Angel Resource Institute. EBAN Annual Congress.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. And it would be? And it would be?—?but

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. Supporting the growing roster of programs also required more administrative overhead to solve legal issues, track investments and support cross-program communications and learning.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? . Power Pitches.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The meetings included co-working spaces, accelerators, investor groups, tech giants, University startup hubs, maker groups, and pitch events. Doing startups, Angel and VC investing is mainstream. Investing here is about making sure you are in – FOMO is huge. Investing here is about making sure you are in – FOMO is huge.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The event will host strategic matchmaking programs, including SolutionBridge and VentureConnect, designed to help executives and startups form partnerships and secure investments. Attendees can explore the full agenda, discover networking opportunities, and view participating sponsors on the HumanX website.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. He invests in these pioneering solutions through his nonprofit organization, Mentor for Good. Pascal was a tech entrepreneur before there was even a web browser.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The fund’s operations are scheduled to commence by the close of the current year, with investments reaching 150-200 companies within its portfolio. Each investment within the fund is anticipated to span from hundreds of millions to tens of billions of yen, aiming to cover a broad spectrum of startups in the specified sectors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Privately you all acknowledge that nobody believes in it yet we’re letting our leadership continue to invest our money and reputation on something we know is going to fail because it has no real basis. I found that most VC’s never gave me any feedback when I was pitching. I’m OK with that.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s not actually surprising that investors bought into it, considering that for a long time, VCs have focused on one particular archtype of leader as being more worthy of venture investment than others—the bold, confident visionary who will talk big in the pitch meeting.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

One of the most popular activities at a TechCrunch conference is watching top-notch early-stage founders square off in a pitch competition. Seriously, who doesn’t love a pitch-off? And the Crypto Pitch-off is just one more compelling reason to go to TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. You have a “strategic investor&# who wants to invest in your B round as long as a financial investor will lead. I sometimes call these White Elephants. You raised $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

I know this from firsthand experience: Along with many wins there are some investments I wish I’d turned down. So that you minimize the likelihood of learning the hard way, what follows are my top subtle red flags angel investors should heed when evaluating a potential investment. I missed the red flags.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. It’s a myth to believe that leadership has always resided in the CEO. Successful companies have distributed leadership across the business.

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