Paul G. Silva

MARCH 26, 2020

This is the 2nd post in the “Startup Pitching” series. So simplify your pitch. If your product solves 10 pain points then in the pitch focus on the top 2-3 most important ones and simply hint at the others. You can take the same concept and apply it to your pitch. Front load credibility. Investors are cynical.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

No founder event would be complete without pitches! TechCrunch editorial is looking for 6-7 founders to take part in a Pitch Deck Teardown. Mastering the Pitch Deck Pitches are critical in the quest for funding and first customers. Without further ado, here are your judges for the TC Early Stage Pitch Deck Teardown.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 27, 2020

This is the checklist / boil down of the techniques listed in the pior 3 posts in the “Startup Pitching” series. After you complete a draft of your pitch, go over this list to make sure you’ve applied as many of the techniques as possible. View all posts in the “Startup Pitching” series.

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Venture Well

JULY 29, 2019

VentureWell Director of Venture Development, Eli Velasquez offers insights on how to develop pitch competitions that provide maximum support to startups. The post Rethinking Pitch Competitions: Create Value, Not a Spectacle appeared first on VentureWell.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

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. Slides in this deck The team submitted this slide deck with the note that it was submitted exactly as it pitched it to the investors. Not all in good ways, but I’m getting slightly ahead of myself.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 26, 2020

This is the 3rd post in the “Startup Pitching” series. View all posts in the “Startup Pitching” series. In this post we’ll go over advanced-level (301) techniques. The one (maybe two) number rule. Most people can’t hold multiple numbers in their head. Just put the final number.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

That changes today, since ANYbotics was kind enough to share its pitch deck so we could take a closer look at the highs and lows of four-legged ‘bots. 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. Here are three things I loved about the pitch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are not yet ready to pitch an investor. Are pitch decks still necessary?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

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. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Smalls could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck! So where does a company like Smalls fit in?

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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. I love seeing early pitch decks and term sheets too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. It’s remarkably rarely used in VC pitch decks, which I think is a tremendous shame. I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks. Sadly, the Scrintal deck is a little lacking on that front.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. I’m also including the full pitch deck, so you can get the full example! Somewhere in that latticework of challenges, there’s an opportunity, which BusRight jumped on.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of founders from the Ohio region. Each founder will pitch for four minutes, followed by a Q&A with our stellar panel of judges: Anna Mason , Managing Partner, Rise of the Rest Seed Fund at Revolution. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Over on TC+ , I just launched a new series called Pitch Deck Teardowns! Astute readers may already have figured out what that is all about: You submit a pitch deck and we share it with our readers, highlighting things that are awesome, making suggestions for improvements and celebrating the fun, innovative and surprising things that we find.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This simple framework can help you learn to give a perfect pitch every time. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The Pitching event is being held at Theatre N, Nemours Building, 1007 Orange St., Wilmington, Delaware, with registration opening at 8:15 am and pitches beginning at 9:10 am. University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship is the Startup302 competition’s sponsor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Momentum pulled off what every entrepreneur dreams of: Last year, it closed a lead investor for its seed round — which our own Ron Miller covered at the time — without even creating a pitch deck. Once a lead was secured, Momentum created a pitch deck to fill out the round. Makes the pitch feel current.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of of founders from the Texas region. The pitch-off is split into two segments. Each company will pitch for four minutes followed by a Q&A with our expert panel of judges: Krishna Srinivasan , Co-Founder, LiveOak Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If you told me that a company that’s charging $70 per month for multivitamins would be able to raise a $10 million round, I’d demand to see the receipts, and I’d be very curious indeed to see its pitch deck. Rootine is the company, and the founders were gracious enough to share their pitch deck with me. Cover slide.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 15, 2023

Great pitch decks are like works of art. Are you ready to become a pitch deck artist? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow. Two other companies presented in the Austin pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founders – pitch on stage with TechCrunch. Pitch your space tech startup. Now founders – apply to pitch on the same stage as these space tech luminaries. Startups applying to pitch should have some connection to space – intergalactic or from the ground. Selected companies will be announced on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. As an early-stage startup, it’s downright nonsensical, and it shouldn’t be part of your pitch deck at all. TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale! Save 50% on an annual subscription here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Around May 2020, nearly everything moved online, and investment pitches were among the first to do so. It’s impossible for founders to “read the room” when pitching online, which puts them at a severe disadvantage. At Flint Capital, we listen to around 1,500 online pitches per year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Most of the pitch deck teardowns to date (here’s a handy list of the more than 30 we have published so far ) have been for institutional funding rounds, typically in the millions or tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars raised. Slides in this deck Laoshi’s deck consists of 11 main slides and four appendix slides.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In the context of building a great product, founders are creating an investment pitch that reflects their day-to-day life. Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch. That makes sense.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. . Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors. With my pitch coaching clients, I sometimes challenge them to tell the entire story without mentioning the product once.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The crew here at TechCrunch has done a lot of writing about making amazing pitch decks over the years, and I figured it was time that I put together a collection of all of it in one handy spot. Before you start pitching. It’s also helpful to think about the order of slides in your pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. What do people often misunderstand about pitch training? For those with a bit more experience, pitching is about a set of slides to achieve a certain goal, mostly funding.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I often see pitch decks positioning themselves as a Seed raise but realistically are at Pre-Seed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. 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. . Well, that’s the world Five Flute wants to live in. The company raised a $1.2 Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company shared its pitch deck with us to take a deeper look, and so we will! 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. . Slide 7] Being the right team for the job is a crucial aspect of pitching. million) round of funding to change that.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Over the course of the past 10 weeks, I’ve taken apart 10 pitch decks as part of our Pitch Deck Teardown series. We want your pitch decks for our Pitch Deck Teardowns! All the decks had their own strengths and weaknesses, but there was one glaring omission from most of the decks I reviewed: an operating plan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to respond to these questions in such detail. There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

We’re lucky enough to be able to share Northspyre’s pitch deck with you today. 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. Get the crowbar; let’s break this thing open to see what’s inside.

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