TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

So I was filled with great delight and curiosity when I was introduced to GoAhead Ventures. The firm claims it will hear anyone’s pitch, no matter where in the world you are or what you are building as long as you are a pre-seed or seed company. They insist on a video pitch. The upside? “Phil created and drove that.”

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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. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Be the learn-it-all. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS).

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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. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

“I had one cross my desk yesterday where a brand-name VC led the seed, which they are now calling a pre-seed,” Winfield told TechCrunch. Christine Chang, head of corporate development and ventures, Tribal. Patricio Jutard, co-founder and general partner, Newtopia VC. “I know this company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now that you have said subscription, head on over to Haje ’s story about your pitch deck needing an operating plan. Startups and VC. It wasn’t that long ago that venture capital firms were skittish on the idea of investing in one of the “vices,” you know, like alcohol and cannabis. Save 50% on an annual subscription here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

After the success of startups like Airbnb and smart-home players like Google, Amazon and Samsung, investors are “searching for good ideas and quality execution,” according to Jake Fingert and Lionel Foster of VC firm Camber Creek. How would she break the news to her leadership team and employees? Investors flowed $1.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

With all that experience, she knows all too well that the process of fundraising starts well before your first pitch meeting. How to Get An Investor’s Attention (Marlon Nichols, MaC Venture Capital). How to Nail Your Virtual Pitch Meeting (Melissa Bradley, Ureeka). Building and Leading a Sales Team (Ryan Azus, Zoom CRO).

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model. The outcome was a successful investment round, where the startup secured funding from a major healthcare venture capital firm. By showcasing a working model, we made the vision more concrete.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. Yeah, he was LA, baby! And Adam his.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

That said, I did certainly see all the email subject lines this morning about Kleiner Perkins, the famous Sand Hill venture capital firm, splitting up. 4/ The VC Industry Is Changing Rapidly: Every day, we here pundits lament about how much money is flowing into private technology investing. They are insanely amazing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, for every £1 of VC investment in the UK, 89p goes to all-male founding teams. Long live the venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Leaders across the board openly advocate for female-founded businesses receiving more venture capital and entrepreneurship support, but few are taking decisive actions to close this glaring gender gap. Women are consistently losing out when it comes to accelerator backing and VC support. How do we fix funding?

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StartupNation

JULY 7, 2021

If this describes you, an angel investor or venture capital firm might be a good place to look for growth capital. Venture capital firms . Venture capital (VC) firms manage funds set aside to invest in new businesses. They are looking for leadership.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Phylicia Koh, vice president at early-stage gaming venture capital firm Play Ventures , said effective fundraising is not only essential for securing necessary capital but also for demonstrating the commitment and resilience of the founding team. The Singapore-based venture capital firm raised $135 million for its Fund 2.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Startups and VC. Meanwhile, Connie talked with Sequoia’s Jess Lee to get a deeper understanding of how VC companies think about their deals. Blair Silverberg, CEO and co-founder of Hum Capital, says founders need to get a firm handle on LTV (lifetime value) and customer acquisition cost (CAC) before they start sending out pitch decks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. for nearly two years. “At

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Startups and VC Kano, the venture-backed U.K. A peek behind the curtains : Tage breaks down how African startups raised venture capital in 2022. A near-perfect deck : Haje finds very little to complain about in his most recent Pitch Deck Teardown, of Orange’s $2.5 Sarah has more. million seed deck.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

So what attracted Howard Morgan, the VC with the hottest hand in NYC as of late ( Turntable.fm , Fab.com ), to bring the investment back to First Round? Joe and Mary Bureaucrat who don't even use the internet because Smalltown, USA blocks it as the decisionmakers. Ugh, right? Except that its working. how many salespeople do you have?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But we’d already signed a term sheet with a VC. A month after closing our VC-led seed round, we got another call. And your odds of getting a win are much higher when you focus on value vs. hype, when you focus on customers vs. TAM, and when you focus on building vs. pitching. They love our vision. But they keep pushing.

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Medha Agarwal of Redpoint Ventures looks at the changes in e-commerce, diving into how Amazon is now the largest e-commerce apparel retailer for millennials in " PSA: Amazon leads in apparel e-commerce among millennials. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Jean Hsu of Medium , Nikhil Pandit of Clever Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. 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. But the VC is thinking about the issue whether you address it or not. He disarmed me.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? It also means you’re the only one responsible for pitching VCs, running board meetings, staffing a team, and making major decisions. Russ Heddleston is Head of Commercial, DocSend at Dropbox. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Unfortunately, when it comes to VC checklists, years of industry experience at unsexy companies don’t tick a box in the same way as having had a C-level role at a former startup. Granted, they are more successful at raising capital, but that’s more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything else.”

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s certainly not salary, as when a company has nothing beyond a great idea and maybe a lead to a VC on Sand Hill Road, there’s no fat paycheck or benefits package to offer. This is the pitch, at least if you’re a promising male. Instead, they dangle the proverbial carrot of stock/equity compensation. Wait ‘til we go public!”.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. Should You Raise Equity Venture Capital or Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. thought leadership.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Examples: best practices on launching a new VC fund , microcredentials for new VCs.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As Managing Directors of Techstars Seattle, we raised a series of funds from mostly local LPs, including participation from some of our best-known local VC firms, as well as many of the mentors who worked with the founders during and after each program.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” If you want to be the marketing person or you want to be perceived as a businessperson or a VC or technical person or whatever you want to be perceived, people will always define you.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other investors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, later-stage investors, etc. Examples: best practices on launching a new VC fund , microcredentials for new VCs. I’m not active there. 2) Researching a topic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Other contributing factors include an over-reliance on venture capital funding for businesses that had yet to figure out a robust business model, while the broader economic downturn has forced companies to cut their costs and safeguard their remaining capital amidst a climate of inflation and rising interest rates. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. Among other topics, Lee will talk about how Guild Education met her criteria for investment before the duo offer feedback on startup pitches submitted by audience members.

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