Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. It's now at 35 percent , and because of this a common question I hear now is: How do you set yourself up to raise money in the U.S.? or incorporated here to raise capital. funding into 8 steps. Step 0: Ask Yourself Why?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. A deck is often the first impression an investor will get at the company, so it needs to look stunning. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. The deck should achieve three things: It needs to tell your company story.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

About six months ago, we went through a pitch deck by a company called Supliful. We celebrated the pitch deck for being very good, but we may have poked a little bit of fun at it for being riddled with spelling mistakes and other silliness. At its heart, though, the deck was good. With that out of the way, let’s do this! Let’s go!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? Aren’t you ever tempted to go back and do it again?”. The obvious answer is yes. When it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood. I know this sounds superficial. Long hours.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

There’s a godawful number of pitch deck templates out there, and there’s one thing that most of them get wrong: They forget to mention that the template is (meant to be) flexible. For some companies, using the template as-is works, but for others, it gives you a story that doesn’t flow, at best, or doesn’t work, at worst.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 24, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic horizon stretches onward and a return to normalcy appears ever more distant, adaptation is the only option. Founders must prepare for a lengthy economic downturn, a slower sales pipeline, extended fundraising timelines and a deeply disrupted workplace — circumstances no one was planning for at the start of 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? Aren’t you ever tempted to go back and do it again?”. The obvious answer is yes. When it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood. I know this sounds superficial. Long hours.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The arc of your career after that might make it seem like you screwed up by leaving. Not everyone’s career moves up and to the right from beginning to end. In fact, I don’t think that actually happens to anyone—but some people are just better at hiding the wrong turns, u-turns, and downturns than others. No one should have to feel like that.

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Surdna Foundation

JANUARY 25, 2022

This pilot coincided with the pandemic and influx of temporary federal dollars, illustrating that while the snapshot of learning around these metrics is important, we need to look at a long arc of these data before we can make conclusions about field-level impact. . Economic narrative change is an emerging theme. Key takeaways: .

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Back in March, I wrote about how BoxedUp pivoted to enable high-end video production gear sharing and its $2.3 million seed round. At the time, the company’s founder David Boone stuck out, so when I started the pitch deck teardowns, I knew I wanted to feature BoxedUp in one of the installments. Slides in this deck. 1 — Cover slide.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

If you want your deck to stand out, eliminate everything unnecessary, deliver a core message with a strong narrative, and lay out a sequence of slides that builds on the next. I work with over a dozen+ pre-seed startups at any given time, and I know that just because the story is missing from the deck, doesn’t mean the story doesn’t exist.

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