Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

Back in 1996, our company appeared in a magazine featuring the fastest-growing companies in Canada. I recall the day before my IPO roadshow — how nervous I was — and how I presented my pitch deck to my Forum, and they shared valuable insights and honest feedback.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2016

There are a number of podcasts aimed at entrepreneurship – Forbes recommended twelve in this article , including StartUp and the Pitch – but we’ve also found career inspiration in other programming that’s not specifically geared toward business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

But it does highlight that with enough sheer gumption, one can take a magazine business into the digital age and keep aggregate revenue growing. Is it the most exciting debut? No,” he writes. That’s worth something.”. Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC combo. Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Picked up a fashion magazine lately? For years and years fashion magazines have known for years that editorial and advertising is a blurry one at best--and it's what the consumer wants anyway. The consumer picks up a fashion magazine with the mindset of "Show me what to buy." Take CNN/Money.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you’re a B2B business, go pitch your target audience before you have a product and validate what will make them say yes. The post 500 Founders: Luke Campbell, Marta Meszaros, Andy Bowie & Abbe Hyde appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch. The post 500 Founders: Rick Kiessig, Hannah Hunt, Matthew Jackson & Jenni Matheson appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Fabulous ideas are a dime a dozen.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

So give your pitch deck a break and lend an ear!”. This could include mundane tasks from replying to emails or phone calls, to bigger things like completing the pitch document that is needed next week, to prepping content in advance for social media. And don’t forget it’s not a one-way street. Ani Tawhiao-Lomas – Cofounder.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Now I don’t get any.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor to Sidewalk Labs — hopes to woo families with the pitch that it operates at the center of fintech, ed tech, and entertainment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Tal adopted strategies that include sticking to a super-simple pitch, aiming to surpass his initial funding target, not taking rejection personally, and setting an unusually low investment threshold so friends and family could be a part of his success. Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2020

There’s likely to be written material that’s part of your crowdfunding pitch, along with graphics and potentially video or audio content. You have to apply for a patent before disclosing your invention, so make sure you get advice on whether there’s anything patentable in your idea before you launch your crowdfunding pitch.

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Eventually, her persistence paid off when she secured a meeting with a Neiman Marcus buyer, and after a memorable pitch in which she personally demonstrated Spanx’s slimming effect in the dressing room, she landed her first major retail order.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. They can pitch this plan for a chance of getting up to $100,000 to fund it. Applications are received throughout the year. Website: [link].

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

magazine’s prestigious list of Best Workplaces for 2023. Media Contact: Melanie Anderson Pitch Public Relations 480-225-7148 melanie@pitchpublicrelations.com Disclosures Advantage Capital is an Investment Adviser registered with the U.S. Further solidifying its success, Cloverleaf earned a place on Inc.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

He gave his elevator pitch and before long found his partner. “I can’t get a cofounder because I don’t have any money,” he said, “but I can’t get any money because I don’t have a cofounder.” Grinna attended an iOS meet-up at a pub in Cambridge, a kind of “pop-up third place” common in entrepreneurial communities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows. Advertising = telling people how good you are. Editorial features = someone else telling people how good you are. The latter gives you way more credibility. Don’t Be Afraid to Take Risks.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Behind every startup, SME and scaleup statistic, and behind every failed pitch, idea, or venture is a human being with thoughts, feelings and frailties like anyone else. Everything else we do (our “What” – programmes, pitches, funding) is secondary.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 2, 2022

From recruiting talented people to join your mission and share your vision to constructing a pitch deck narrative that pulls the future forward, capturing both imaginations and capital. The post 500 Founders: Janelle Fenwick, Jack Coleman, Lane Litz & Frayne Cooke appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2016

Magazine, and we were grateful to have been generously extended access to their Iconic series of events this year. By Graham Marsden, Marketing Director at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Author’s note: EO has a partnership with Inc.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

But I actually am on a path that’s a little bit different now where I I’m pitching the Giggling Pig as a children’s show. So I’ve been pitching that for some time now, so I’m actually waiting to hear back from PBS this week. So I really want the messaging to be heard more by parents.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. And by the 1950s, he was so far to the right that he was actually a co-founder of “National Review Magazine” with William Buckley, who always said he was the intellectual kind of leading light at “National Review.” You know, we’ll see if we choose to.

energy

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant. Frankly, it’s the kind of narrative that had normally been reserved for men in the startup world—pitch a dream on a piece of paper, raise tens of millions from the likes of Sequoia, embody the visible visionary leader, grace the magazine cover.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. Some final thoughts on PR.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, don’t forget that most likely, angels you’re pitching to want to offer their best advice and be part of your journey to success and changing the landscape of an industry. When Jason launched his magazine company in the 90s, he went to investors with just a photocopy of the magazine. How do you attract angel investors?

angel investing

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I'm sorry that I missed yesterday's Glamour Magazine panel on women in tech --if nothing else because it featured two of my favorite women in technology, Hilary Mason and Kara Swisher. When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story". They're awesome and I'd show up to hear them speak anywhere.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The following article was written by Glen Carlson , co-founder of the Key Person of Influence Business Accelerator, for the March 2016 edition of Octane magazine : Consider the three types of branding you can develop as a business owner: a company brand, a product brand and a personal brand. is about taking that pitch and scaling it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

But the rules are different in startup-land: although there are basic best practices for putting together a pitch deck or term sheet, there are no hard rules for approaching potential investors. Tell us how you’d like to be approached by a founder with their initial pitch. That brings up the importance of research.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. The fund raise required three in-person pitches, seven Zoom pitches and 30 Zoom calls before closing successfully in August. Successful pitches help your confidence snowball. StockTrim came out successful – oversubscribed, in fact.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 9, 2022

It’ll help your people feel valued, supported and invested in and there’s the obvious business and customer benefits in ensuring high quality presentations, pitches and video conferencing. The post 5 tips for communicating and collaborating effectively when remote working appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Write a time-consuming guest article for a well-known magazine? Beyond the sound bites they offer magazines, there’s often a very different truth.

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2021

Pitch a good idea, research the material and publish the content. Don’t forget about the audiences watching TV shows, reading magazines and listening to radio programs! Here are a few approaches to creating content that allows you to make a lasting impact on audiences: Writing. As an added bonus, much of it is usually recorded.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The founders of “Time” magazine, for example, wanted to create a news magazine that a busy person could read in an hour or less. It was woman-owned, which I liked, and I went through my pitch with Lisa. I was just focused on one goal. Amazon started as an online bookseller. Fruit extract. No preservatives.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

From all walks of life, entrepreneurs come pitch to the sharks in hopes to get funding for their dreams to come true. If one or more sharks are interested in the pitched business, a negotiation of numbers occurs between the entrepreneur and potential shark investor, but not often without a shark fight. and international patents.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Its Ritz Carlton brand has a travel magazine called The Journey. The Bonvoy brand also has a digital travel magazine, Traveler. It doesn't need to rely on external publication editors to accept their pitches for a story. And you can even go old school and send out high-gloss print magazines.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Mark advises that when you’re introducing yourself to someone and making your elevator pitch, that you need a distinction, a differentiation. Ramon relates and he’s told followers, “Listen, your job when you’re pitching is not trying to get everything in that package. According to Mark, “too many things…is more than one.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 30, 2023

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. And we came away with a pretty good pitch deck and well-resourced basis of knowledge to use going forward.” appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

Practice your pitch, have them look over your business plan, and solicit their advice to so when you go into the lion’s den you’re as prepared as possible. . Find the Right Investors - don’t throw your pitch to just anybody. As a result, investors are more likely to reject the first set of numbers.

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