Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Blade Years: The blade years lasted for at least 3 years from 1997 to 2000, where its revenue was around 1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. For years I saw companies pitching themselves as “mobile coupon companies&# and I never believed this would be a big idea. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups. Gone are the days of investing on a whim. And, while global fintech funding slid by 46% to $75.2

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

EDT , Chan will join me to share his views about why “ Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend. " In a conversation on Tuesday with @yourprotagonist , @chandr3w will share his views about why "Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend." Twitter Space: What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

This process has been tested over 100 hours with 30+ potential co-founders — ultimately helping me co-found a project that has grown to 2000+ users in less than five months. With this in mind, I derived a five-step process for finding an ideal co-founder for my next adventure. It will pay huge dividends!

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Starting on a Shoestring Budget Blakely started Spanx with just $5,000 of her savings and no outside investment. The Oprah Effect In 2000, a major turning point came when Oprah Winfrey named Spanx her “Favorite Thing” of the year. She had to be creative and frugal with her marketing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

TC’s Rebecca Szkutak wrote about how a pivot helped HopSkipDrive win a difficult pitch to parents: Trust your kids with our ride-sharing services. Instead, Cloudflare just got dozens of venture firms to offer to invest up to $1.25 Three years ago, 500 Global said it would decide on investments all year instead of just twice yearly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Now it’s Scale Venture Partners ’ turn, announcing it secured $900 million in committed capital for its eighth fund, also its largest since forming in 2000. It’s also invested in younger companies, like BigID, Dusty Robotics and Honeycomb. “We’d No investments have been made from the new fund yet, Niehenke said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

In addition to the pitches themselves, the types of companies presenting forbear trends in the startup world more broadly. This trend opposes the broader VC market’s investment patterns. Last the decline of social media investment is consistent with the rest of the market. This year was no exception.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Second, because the tails of the solutions tend to be so long—think something like self-driving where there are so many exceptions that could possibly happen—the amount of investment to stay ahead increases and the value decreases. Cisco in 2000 was worth half a trillion dollars at its peak. You have this perverse economy of scale.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Combined, those non-traditional VCs account for about 25% of venture dollars invested last year, sapping the strength from the startup bull-market. More money raised for less dilution.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. You have an “hour” to pitch in your first meeting. Prepare to give your pitch in 30 including Q&A.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. True story.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Alomar, who led startups through the dotcom bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008, will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits, and identify which proof points founding teams must define before their next raise. Pitch Deck Teardown: WayRay’s $80M Series C deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. I have been pitched by too many companies that want to help every brand discover their inner iPhone self. I hope to soon announce an investment that relies on the mobile application infrastructure in the short-to-mid term.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

My beliefs are validated by other entrepreneurs who have grown their companies rapidly and have taken a lot of outside investment, only to experience total chaos and frustration. For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows. Advertising = telling people how good you are.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

But one of the great stories about this is that it was reported back to me that, so my art boxes that it’s a big part of my business now, that this person that made fun of them and said that I was a bad business woman for investing in these boxes. I don’t want to get bigger than this in one location.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Partners make investment decisions. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. Do they have money to invest?

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