TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops and roundtables with interactive Q&As and plenty of time for networking.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Much like an accelerator (compacted into two days), you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, pitch decks and recruiting. We’re talking highly engaging workshops with interactive Q&As. Day two features the TC Early Stage Pitch Off!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. Venture capital is far from a level playing field. So, if you’re a female founder faced with the prospect of pitching to VCs — what steps can you take to set yourself up for success?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. When working with early stage startups, Eric runs an exercise where he says “Give me the pitch; I am your first customer.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Goldman Sachs and Sesame Workshop pour money into this edtech firm’s newest fund. SoftBank earnings always give key insights about how a heavyweight in venture capital is performing (and the bonanza always comes with a healthy share of content and memes). Across the week.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Pitch practices are fine to do online as well. Cutting out the commute time in a busy city leaves founders with more time for workshops, mentor matchmaking, pitch practice and other important sessions. People prefer in general to have the physical experience. It actually works well.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

These are the ACA Leaders Workshop and the EBAN Winter University. Venture Capitalists. The big one for VCs is the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association. But for the most part these are pitch events, rather than ‘places for VCs and Angels to learn about their businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

VCs read pitch decks extremely quickly, which means that every detail holds the potential to get them to double down on a startup or just pass altogether. That’s why every Disrupt, we host a session we call Pitch Deck Teardown. While crafting the high-level narrative is critical, of course, founders can’t skimp on the details either.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Leaders across the board openly advocate for female-founded businesses receiving more venture capital and entrepreneurship support, but few are taking decisive actions to close this glaring gender gap. These types of initiatives should be expanded from seed to provide support for Series A, B and C rounds through IPO.

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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. To date, this venture capital firm has invested over $7 million in more than 130 businesses led by these underrepresented founders.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What is your elevator pitch? What makes your pitch effective? . To help you make your elevator pitch effective, we asked startup founders and business owners this question for their best examples and insights. A good Elevator pitch is trimmed and streamlined. Inform First Then Sell. Make it Quick and Easy to Grasp.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

In addition to their work with individual companies, they also run founder workshops, a job board and a marketer-led syndicate. If Duolingo poses a strong debut, consumer edtech startups will be able to add a golden data point to their pitch decks,” they write. “A But if it struggles?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, usage-based pricing, pitch decks, recruiting and more. We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops with interactive Q&As, roundtables and plenty of time for networking.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Accelerators, incubators, entrepreneurship training programs and workshops, co-working spaces, maker spaces, universities, pitch events and competitions, networking events and meetups, venture capital firms, angel investors, government and other civic programs, and mentors. What kind of information should you look for?

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Haystack

JULY 15, 2018

Workshopping An Idea – This is happening more frequently. Too often in looking at a deck or hearing a live pitch, the analytical parts of our brains are firing — but the decision to invest so early is also heavily influenced by the potential entrepreneurial energy locked inside the protagonist.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seek out industry associations, taking advantage of community events such as conferences, workshops, training opportunities, and more. Not only do they provide coursework and training, but some offer venture funding and mentoring. Centers of Entrepreneurship often host workshops, conferences, competitions, and online training courses.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Do you know what drives the email open rate of your pitches? On Tuesday, December 7th the team at Salescrunch has put together a must-attend workshop on the science of sales and how to optimize your sales efforts. What could you measure that would give you insight into how you could close at a better rate? Are they looking at the deck?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface. It is all possible, but patience is key. Think of the worst-case scenario.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept. It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

LinkedIn, of course, is a portal where folks in the sales industry can workshop their slam poetry. Index Ventures partner Nina Achadjian received Bapu’s pitch deck while she was still on vacation, but the founder wouldn’t let her schedule a meeting for the following week. Remember flashmobs?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our slate of experts will present workshops on subjects like operations, fundraising, pitch deck pointers, term sheet tips, product-market fit, brand building, growth marketing, recruiting, taming your tech stack and a lot more. He’ll offer insights on how to network, craft a great pitch and target the best investors for your success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder. Andy Areitio, a partner at early-stage fund TheVentureCity, wrote What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder , a reflection on the “classic mistakes” founders tend to make when it’s time to fundraise.

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