Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In recent weeks, several major media organizations, including Verizon (Huffington Post, Yahoo, AOL), Buzzfeed and Gannett, the owners of more than 120 local media organizations across the country, announced thousands of newsroom layoffs in an attempt to reduce costs. It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 23, 2022

On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000! The post THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF PITCH EVENT! appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

If you’re anything like the average millennial, you might be checking your social media feeds as often as 150 times per day. With a little bit of social media savvy and your own smartphone, you can sell more products and reach a wider audience of potential customers. According to social media platform Hootsuite , 3.48

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

As I was scrolling through Twitter today and saw the rumors around Gimlet, the podcast media company, being acquired by Spotify for $200M in cash, I knew I had to stop, write this post, and share some thoughts on what’s going on. 5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media. So, here goes….

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 1, 2023

Register Korean company Sleek Corporation ‘s innovative fitness platform, ‘Hifive,’ achieved a major milestone by securing the top prize at the prestigious 2023 East Meets West Pitch Competition. ” Hifive is only one element of Sleek’s broader mission.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

If so, you might be telling the wrong kinds of stories in the media. The truth is, you need to be very strategic about your earned media coverage and how you promote it. The difference between owned and earned media. First, you might be wondering what “media” we’re actually referring to.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 29, 2015

As part of our firm’s rebranding strategy for McKenzie Pitch Partners, which was anchored by the publication of founder Hamish McKenzie’s new book, we held an innovative event in New York City that showcased Hamish’s philosophy in action. Honing their strategies and stories with Hamish, both got their best pitches together.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Going through the company’s pitch deck, the trio describe the business model that will take Anthropic there and the investors behind it. Daily Crunch: ‘Copy-from-China’ social media app Lemon8 squeezes its way into US top 10 by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While the group we saw that had the largest number of members (~1k) was an open pitch around podcast ideas and soliciting help for podcast projects. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium? “We raised $3M in late 2020. While in the testing phase, we had very high interest and attention from investors.

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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! Media Coverage slide. Slides in the deck. Awards — Awards received slide.

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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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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Make sure you are pitching to a fund that is appropriate for where your business is right now. One can imagine how hard it is to pitch femtech to an audience that does not experience menstruation or menopause. Do not hesitate to pitch a fund that is in a location you know nothing about.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment. In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan reviewed the earliest pitch deck for social gaming company Rec Room with Nick Fajt, its founder and CEO. Getting the details right in your pitch deck. Image Credits: Rec Room.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Copyright Delta : A blockchain-based platform for verifying and managing who owns the rights to a piece of media. Gaudium.AI : Generative AI for helping your social media team come up with new posts, generating unique copy within your specifications. The company says they’ve already got more than 2,000 trainers onboarded.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Video pitching. I see an uptick in pitching via pre-recorded video. We used Loom to pre-record our pitch and share it with potential investors. It’s a great way to personalize a pitch deck and share it with interested parties. Here’s what they shared. I see this as a new trend that will only grow over time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 15, 2018

But it’s not the founders’ fault for pitching us this way, it’s on us as early stage investors to help them better frame the conversation. The first product we built at Simply Measured was a really awful social analytics tool designed for one purpose, to validate whether marketers were willing to pay for easier to access social media data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. For all we know, white men make 99% of the pitches. I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

But the wild ads keep appearing all over my social media until I decided to apply. However, I met and pitched my business to people that I follow on social media as business role models. How was your experience in GSEA different from other business pitch competitions you’ve participated in? So, I skipped it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Smaller businesses may be attracted to blogs, social media posts, and email marketing. It’s critical to set yourself apart from the competition. CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. What about employees?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2023

Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

These are the things that real people – the readers of news media – are most likely to care about. 1) Make sure your pitch is direct and has a news hook – look at the sort of stories we’re doing and think about how you might fit into those. Check our projects we have going on and pitch in on those; ‘Quick! Rebecca Stevenson.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Are you Ready 2 Pitch? Written by Impact Hub San Salvador | As part of their #ImpactonTour Social Media Takeover. 48 start-ups were carefully selected from the total number of applicants to present their commercial or investment pitch at the final event on the 27 th & 28 th of February 2019. The post Are you Ready 2 Pitch?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

The New York Times' Executive Editor, Bill Keller, wrote a piece for New York Magazine entitled " The Twitter Trap " in which he laments the pandora’s box of continuously connected social media he has just opened for his 13 year old daughter by allowing her to have a Facebook account. It's just a video game.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. Watch Vyrill’s pitch-off presentation here. Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. million pre-seed round in 2018.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 9, 2015

For entrepreneurs, the operative phrase is, “I pitch, therefore I am.” Pitching isn’t only for raising money—it’s for reaching agreement, and agreement can yield many good outcomes including sales, partnerships, and new hires. Here are the key elements of a great pitch. A pitch, however, is not a school play.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2015

Of course, I had no business starting such a group, so I enlisted the help of some people I had met through the community--like my fellow triathlete Kurt Schrader , who was, at the time, leading tech for Intent Media. Kurt is a no-nonsense guy with fantastic experience growing and managing technical teams.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 15, 2022

The elevator pitch is outdated. Here’s what’s needed in the digital age. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Baby Shark Fund, drawing its name from the renowned reality TV series Shark Tank, where entrepreneurs pitch […] The post Baby Shark Fund: SUTD’s Dive into Micro-Innovation for Student Ventures first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

When I’m invited to participate in a round of pitching to potential investors, it’s more often than not part of a company’s marketing strategy around proving to the world that they care about equity for women. You have to look out for your own mental health.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 28, 2021

Get out of your head and start pitching the big stuff Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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