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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

Whilst there are a wide range of LPs and you could have first meetings for months (and many VCs do), there is probably a much smaller number of LPs who want to invest in a fund your size, with your focus, and whose minimum or maximum check size lines up with what you’re seeking. We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Yes, they invest in the best teams. The firm focuses on B2B companies at the very start of their journeys, often writing the first institutional checks into the companies it invests in. The twist is that the fund is help-first, invest-later. Yes, they are “value add.” Congratulations, but you are too far along.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I have spent most of the last two years investing at Series B and helping portfolio companies prepare for this first “growth-y” round. I have also heard it referred to as a “narrative deck” — basically a detailed, written version of your pitch. I see the deck almost as a derivative of the strategy memo.

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Onevest

MAY 19, 2015

Only with sufficient deal flow can investors uncover the best startup investments, and stay diversified. A Forbes study of deal pipeline for VCs and angel investor groups shows they review 87 investment opportunities before committing to 1, on average. Respond Respond when others refer you deals. Share the love.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

Most innovation models refer to the final stage of the process as “execution” or “implementation”–making it sound very straightforward. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch. It was enough to secure a formal meeting with Thiel, who went on to invest US$1.85 More grind than spark.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The visual reference tool is probably handy for set directors that want to visualize props for certain scenes. Another feature in the works is a script pitch deck where users can create a pitch in order to potentially get investments for their film.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. against a broad range of similar companies.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

In this episode, the two discussed how you can effectively sell in an environment where budgets are being cut, executive decision-makers are distracted with other priorities, and companies are less inclined to invest in innovation. However, these executives usually have multiple lines of defense to shield them from sales pitches.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The entire episode is available below, along with a portion of DeepScribe’s Series A pitch deck. Companies can also provide investment firms with summaries of customer call notes. References. We do a lot of customer calls and check references on the entrepreneurs. “What’s the business model?

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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. They collaborate and refer to those that play their specific role. People here are incredibly willing to help, to introduce and refer. Doing startups, Angel and VC investing is mainstream.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know all of this because every VC knows this because we’ve all either funded companies that have marketing technology or we’ve seen a pitch with a company that does this. Your pitch deck should really be your best marketing tool Your pitch deck shouldn’t contain your deepest, darkest secrets and plans.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Once you fill this out… Step 4: Meet to discuss answers and conduct reference checks Set up an hour or two to sit down and review each other’s answers in person or via a conference call. At the end of the meeting, ask for one or two work-related references (i.e., For instance, I would ask references questions like: 1.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. In this case, it’s not a lack of interest, just a lack of time and efficiency.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Total addressable market, or TAM, refers to the dollar value of what a startup wants to sell to a certain population. All this is to say that TAM matters for startups, how they pitch investors and how investors make investment decisions. It’s super critical. We’ve written about it on TechCrunch a lot over the years.

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Red Rocket

MAY 20, 2022

Or have happy client references? A good channel partner program must be structured in a win-win way, so both sides are invested in its success and are economically incentivized to see it succeed. The bigger the idea, the higher up in the company you pitch it. Maybe they need to be of a certain revenue or customer size?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

4) The diverse background of the founder is not the main reason why most diverse founders get turned down for investment. Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. Ducks head.]

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. If you’re talking with an investor competent enough that you’d want her to invest in you, that investor will also be competent enough to surface the negative information you’re trying to hide.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

These investors are notable, as they usually invest a substantial amount of money (often around $10 million). Business owners often rely on family, friends or close acquaintances to invest in their companies, particularly in the beginning. Understand the different investment options you have. Perfect your pitch.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 27, 2017

For VCs: Be upfront about the possibility of you investing now versus whether this is a "get to know you" kind of thing. Make references to founders you've backed available upon request. So here are a few things both sides should do to make the whole thing go a lot smoother. Are you a fund? Is it personal money?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A digital business card, also referred to as an electronic or virtual business card, allows users to share and save contact information quickly, without exchanging a tangible product. Also referred to as a media kit, press kits provide access to information about your business, products and overall brand. Digital business card.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. How does this affect the investment landscape?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. They all refer to the Hola! We had no investment to fall back on. I was scared to go and start pitching “to the world.” Thoughts and self-reflection about the closed company Hola! UX description 2.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was referring to the company’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 into Bing, its 13-year-old search engine. Here are a few highlights from this week: The bias of AI: Dom reports that bias appears in most aspects of AI, from investment and hiring to data collection and production. But there is still a long way to go.

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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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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

First, you might be wondering what “media” we’re actually referring to. Publicity refers to earned media, which is coverage that you’re getting on a site that you don’t own. There are many reasons why entrepreneurs fail to see any return on investment (ROI) from PR. The difference between owned and earned media.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no easy fix, but an emerging cohort of startups is pitching software as a way to potentially anticipate — and respond to — market shocks. billion in venture funding for supply chain startups, including Sensitech, Emerson and Project44 , which in June raised $202 million as part of an investment led by Goldman Sachs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups. Gone are the days of investing on a whim. And, while global fintech funding slid by 46% to $75.2

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

We spent nearly three months pitching dozens of VCs, hoping to raise $3 million to $4 million in a seed round to hire our founding team and build the product out. When we spoke to many other founders, they all told us the same thing: Go raise, raise big, and raise now. Initially, we were excited. Lesson 1: Build big before you raise big.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

They provide a direct, owned line of communication with your audience; nearly 40x return on investment (~$40 generated per every dollar spent), are infinitely scalable and virtually free. To increase the chances of subscribers referring you to others, make sure the process takes no longer than 25 seconds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Some firms are trickier since they artificially call everybody “partner” but they’re not all “investment partners.” Find a portfolio company or two that they’ve invested in. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions? It’s pretty easy since nearly every VC lists its partners on the website.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The investment is coming two years after Breadfast raised a $2 million pre-Series A round. When we started pitching to investors in 2017, they thought we were crazy and were like ‘We’re not going to invest in your company because you guys are doing an asset-heavy model.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting. So here we go.

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