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Pitch for the check you want 

TechCrunch

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. What is this, revenue growth for ants?

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

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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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

But in too many communities entrepreneurship is an underutilized and underleveraged strategy for economic growth. In my role as an ecosystem builder in Sacramento, I’m doubling down on my efforts to raise awareness about entrepreneurship and ecosystem building as an economic development strategy to civic and business leaders in our region.

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11 Startup Content Marketing Strategies That Actually Work

Startup Blogpost

11 Startup Content Marketing Strategies That Actually Work To help startups navigate the complex world of content marketing, we’ve gathered eleven successful strategies from industry professionals, including CEOs and Content Marketing Managers. You can also create blogs for alternative tools.

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THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF PITCH EVENT!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

TechCrunch

The relatively recent shift to cloud computing promised to lower costs and boost productivity, but “ cloud-first strategies may be hitting the limits of their efficacy , and in many cases, ROIs are diminishing,” writes Thomas Robinson, COO of Domino Data Lab. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Here’s all the biz dev support Startup Alley+ founders get at TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Other perks include three months of free business development support. How to Create Product/Market Fit with Dan Olsen, author of “The Lean Product Playbook” Outreach Strategies for Contacting VCs and Press with Annie Kadavy of Redpoint Ventures and TechCrunch editor Danny Crichton. Session 5 – September 8.