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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

First Round has backed a bunch of great salespeople--Brett Hurt of Bazaarvoice , Wiley Cerilli of SinglePlatform , Chantel Waterbury of chloe + isabel , Sean Black of SalesCrunch , and it's great sales-focused additions to the leadership teams that is driving the success of companies like GetSatisfaction and Monetate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. It’s no surprise that salespeople and CEOs have different conversations with customers, but recognizing this played a key role for one EO member: “In hindsight, it was a bad idea that our sales conversations weren’t handled by senior leadership.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Ryan Westwood is a man on a mission to spread leadership principles to his team, his one page business plan is one of the keys to his success. Amy Osmond Cook, CMO of Simplus shared with me the "inside" story of how this deal came to be - it's all about leadership and focus. Pitch to a specific targeted lists of interested media.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

” – Zak Nordyke, EO Cincinnati, founder, Evergreen Mentorship “Accountability is a huge motivator: In one accountability group meeting, I said I would implement an employee profit sharing and a long-term incentive plan for my leadership team. So, I then had a month to do it.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The accelerator itself, meanwhile, has some news: new leadership. Alchemist Accelerator announces new leadership alongside its latest class of companies by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch. Alchemist Accelerator , the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies.

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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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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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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Startups pitched for 10 minutes each. pitches , back-to-back, with no Q&A. It wasn’t scalable. We had to find a better way. Iteration #2: The Standing Monthly Meeting Next, we modeled our program after an angel investor group meeting. A room full of mentors provided feedback. Then we moved on to the next startup.

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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. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success). We’ll see. TechStars Interactions. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. Yet I love TechStars.

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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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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Period, full-stop. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did !

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. Look for CEO roundtables and forums. None in your area? Consider starting one. Fellow alumni may be running their own businesses. Research business or social clubs that cater to business leaders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

I find this fascinating and was excited to go through the company’s pitch deck to learn more. 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. The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck So, who needs this anyway?

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Series B of $85 million to take it on with what it believes is a more dynamic approach. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint. The startup has already seen good progress on the latter front.

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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. You need to start thinking about those people and treating your content like “pre-reads” for your e-mailed pitch deck and subsequent meeting.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

I believe LiquidStack’s leadership team, together with our customers and strategic support from Wiwynn, will rapidly accelerate the global adoption and deployment of two-phase immersion cooling.”. The $10 million in funding came from the Taiwanese conglomerate Wiwynn , a data center and infrastructure developer with revenues of $6.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

This isn’t weakness – it’s leadership. The best ones are visual, high-level, have a narrative, move swiftly, are designed to prompt questions as much as “pitch&# your company and importantly have a narrative. Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. So why is this initiative so important for men, women and other gender identities?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. And I can tell you without a doubt that the system works.”

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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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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

With a rigorous selection process, only the most promising tech-enabled companies get the chance to pitch. Three pitching events happen on the first day of the Conference: Seed Stage, Early Stage, and Growth Stage companies. The Seed Stage Pitch competition winner will be awarded a $500,000 investment.

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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. They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Catherine Marshall with MicroEnterprise Collaborative of Inland Southern California said they are ready to develop their network further by emphasizing professional development, leadership development and technical assistance so that Resource Partners can maximize their services.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of my role as a partner of HealthInc, I sit on the jury for the startup competition in which 20 finalists pitch their ventures, with 10 then selected to enter the program. For example, remember to finish your point if you are interrupted during a pitch. Using those jazz hands goes a long way in perfecting an engaging pitch !

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This demonstrates a clear expectation on the part of VC investors to have a male counterpart within the founding team of their portfolio companies, and that they often — whether subconsciously or consciously — value men’s input over that of the women on the leadership team. Confidence is key when it comes to fundraising.

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Imagine a room with row upon row of circular tables, each one has a student pitching their table-mates as a giant countdown clock ticked down. When the time was up the next person at the table pitched. The air in the room was charged with excitement and nervousness as everyone at every table had pitched.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

We have quite a unique pitch deck on our hands today. A few years ago, AR car hardware company WayRay raised $80 million at a half-a-billion valuation in a Series C round led by Porsche, and I’m super excited to show off their pitch deck today! “Leadership in holography” — Platform description slide.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Here are some guidelines for you – particularly for VC pitch meetings. Weave in their pitch to an overall pitch narrative. I sit through a lot of presentations. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

PITCH ANYTHING: AN INNOVATIVE METHOD FOR PRESENTING, PERSUADING, AND WINNING THE DEAL. He incorporates research results from neuroeconomics, which reveals how the brain functions when making a decision and reacting to a pitch. His book enables readers to learn their Negotiation I.Q. BY OREN KLAFF.

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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. I hear way too many entrepreneurs pitch stuff that I don’t understand—and I’m sure they don’t understand either. Words to live—and learn—by. It is not complicated.

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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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