Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. With #1 – #3 under your belt, you should start preparing the components you will use to support your pitch to outside investors. Understand your business.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

On top of that, since First Round did it's first Open Hours in NYC last year, a number of firms have followed suit and simply opened their doors wide open to entrepreneurs who wanted to come in and pitch. Last month they closed up shop and sold their technology to Amazon, who will be using it in. Are we really not accessible?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

At the end of the program, they’ll pitch their business concepts to a panel of judges for a chance to take home up to $15,000 to officially launch their idea. The eight entrepreneurial teams chosen for the 2024 Erie program represent an exciting mix of products & ideas: Premier Manufacturing – d.b.a

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? For us, it was not a good use of money. We have teams from across the North and South Island participating in our programs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post. “We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Soon after, Google unveiled MusicLM, a text-to-music tool that generates songs from a basic prompt; Paul McCartney used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice for a new Beatles track; and Grimes offered creators 50% of the royalties for streams of songs that used an AI clone of her voice. into another person’s voice.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 15, 2022

On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of $10,000! The team of Seth Pheng and Soph Horn at Control LTD, took first place with their concept for a patented, healthy dosing system for patients using cannabis.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Are you Ready 2 Pitch? At Impact Hub we are a community and space, offering opportunities for investment, training, networking and providing solutions for innovation and sustainability within the entrepreneurial sector. After the application phase is over, 45 start-ups have the opportunity to participate in a 1-month training course.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You're company might be trying to get to $500,000 or $3 million in sales, the principles Ryan uses can still work. But by saying NO to one opportunity this opened the opportunity for Simplus to focus more on Salesforce integrations. In hindsight, a perfect mix of focus and a strong partnership. What does this do?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. Yes, absolutely.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. There are a number of great examples of publicly available pitch materials, so draw from ones that you like the most. Mix in humor to show your personality. Many entrepreneurs confide that raising capital is their hardest task. We understand.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Without further ado, here are the five actionable steps that I’ve used to find, assess, and partner with the right co-founder. This is your opportunity to determine if you’re okay with spending 40+ hours together in a high-pressure startup environment. Quickly identify the people you most admire or would love to work with.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. The legal structures have gotten so much better, and the costs have come down to assemble investors using instruments like the SPV [special purpose vehicle] to invest together. Aim, instead, to assess opportunities objectively. Client segments?

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

That was the goal of The 4-Hour Chef — to teach this toolkit using detailed examples. Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

But a nut that is yet to be cracked is how to add measurable outcomes to the mix. As with every edtech startup, a common tension exists : the platform has to be hard enough to teach consumers something, but fun (or easy) enough for them to actually use it. Over 50,000 students have used its platform to date, the company claims.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix. The fintech-focused firm isn’t the only investor to notice these opportunities.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Corporate Small Business Grants. Specialty Small Business Grants.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

In the 5+ years since CLF was founded, we’ve seen firsthand that these partnerships can produce new ideas, new opportunities, and new shifts in culture faster than operating in silos. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today, there’s a wall of new exciting things to look at…including, among other things, an opportunity Neesha has for you if you’re running a space startup: Apply to pitch onstage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 ! Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors. That was yesterday. Startups and VC.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Our CISA investment structure provides downside protection to investors, making a once early, risky business, a more attractive investment opportunity. Q: What are the tools you’re using for your front office: sourcing , LP relations, investing analysis, etc.? Q: What’s your background? How and why are you in your role today?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The money will be used to expand its provider network, go in-network and focus on its edtech service. The activities are meant to be bite-sized — used when driving to the grocery store or cooking dinner or playing in the backyard — and tailored for interaction with children. What it does.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Today TechCrunch dug into Europe and the deep tech market, a particular segment of the tech landscape that is often pitched as a U.S.-versus-China versus-China battle but could have a third hub, or series of hubs, in the mix. 3 keys that unlock data-driven fundraising. Image Credits: Mario Marco (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.”

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

When she was building Backstage, she began using runners in her own life, hiring people for one-day help while meeting founders across the country. Backstage Capital’s crowd syndicate, Backstage Flex Fund II and Backstage Opportunity Fund I, also invested in the startup. The Runner team provided the pitch deck. “It’s

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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