This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story".

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. I wouldn’t say the have NO firepower but it’s not likely a lot left.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Practice pitching your startup on this week’s TechCrunch Live. I have two amazing guests and they bring along a lot of startup pitching experience. Three guests of this week’s TechCrunch Live event will have two minutes to practice their elevator pitch and they’ll get four minutes of candid feedback from the two guests.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Apply to participate below: Are you the founder of an established Boston-area startup and want to participate in the pitch off? 406 Ventures since 2007, is one of the leading VCs in the Boston area. Pitch-off! REGISTER HERE FOR FREE We need your help! Click here for the Startup Battlefield application. Greg Darcon, a Partner at.406

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.” I pitch a lot of LPs. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 ” If this happens to you as a VC – you’re too late to the deal. Shame on you. Many are late.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

While the Wall Street Journal claims “very few start-ups” received angel investment in 2007, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies proclaims “90% of all see and start-up capital” comes from angel investors. Just 2% of startup financing actually comes from venture capital firms.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Origins David Galbenski and I served on the EO Global Board together in 2007. I flew to Washington, DC, and sat down with Warren, then-EO Director Bob Strade, and Ben Richter (who also had a programme to pitch to Warren). Our goal became clear: to recruit Warren to serve as the Dean of our learning programme faculty.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I was there for the first Etsy VC pitch meeting in a Fort Greene apartment. I watched Twitter blow up at SXSW in 2007—even got into the Twitter book about surfacing it to the USV team, which was awesome except for the part where Nick Bilton (of all people) felt the need to describe me as “shorter” (I’m 5’11”, thank you).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Nash said on Twitter that the two met at LinkedIn, where Nash was himself VP of product management for four years beginning in 2007. It’s a good detail to know, considering that Nash has logged time at a wide variety of tech outfits over the years, making it hard to guess at whom he knows and from where.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. As a result I freed up the time to get back into shape.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

406 Ventures since 2007 and investing as a partner since 2013. Lastly, the event concludes with a pitch-off with three Boston-area startups. It’s a critical topic: Startups are not made in a vacuum and often benefit from a frothy local community of like-minded companies and entrepreneurs. Greg Dracon has been with Boston’s.406

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks. Plus, in his view, there has been very little innovation in cloud storage since Dropbox launched in 2007. . “We spent a lot of money on photo shoots because we couldn’t find new things, or people would have to recreate designs,” she said. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 3, 2017

When employees are willing to pitch in and help each other, more gets done. Aim to be specific—instead of “Thank you for calling,” up the ante with “Thank you for being a devoted customer since 2007!” Gratitude’s proven benefits. Enhanced teamwork and customer experience. Prosocial behavior benefits customers too. Write about it.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). 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. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. ” Europe’s startup ecosystem was still immature and what now seems like aloofness was probably nothing more than a crude way to deter cold pitches from non-venture type businesses. But it wasn’t really that technology driven,” he concedes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Instead of throwing spears, you’re the one holding the shield.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The idea of Shop-Ware began when Coquillette started her own San Francisco-based auto shop, Luscious Garage, in 2007. It’s an easy pitch for the most part, the founder says. The goal from the get-go was to offer customers a peek into what happens in an auto shop. In other words, she says, you’re buying a “magic carpet.”.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. Two years later in 2007 I interviewed Paul and asked him why he started Ycombinator.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

We’ve heard this trope below, but the data does show it and in the last year, this is what I’ve observed — it’s easy to the pre-seed round, but then folks line up to pitch the best seed funds, but those seed funds are drowning in deal flow from the pre-seed funnel. Um… wow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. ” Europe’s startup ecosystem was still immature and what now seems like aloofness was probably nothing more than a crude way to deter cold pitches from non-venture type businesses. But it wasn’t really that technology driven,” he concedes.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. I see many early-stage businesses pitching me today talking about solving this need. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). 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. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Today, our itch gets scratched: Spinach shared its pitch deck with TechCrunch for a closer look. 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 says it submitted the deck exactly as it was used in its investor pitches.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2014

But the number of $5 to $15M Series Bs hasn’t changed since 2007. Now, more than ever, founders ought to reverse engineer their startup’s Series B pitch to maximize their chances of success. Again, larger rounds are largely irrelevant because their numbers are just too small to be significant.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But, when head coach Lloyd Carr retired after the 2007 season, nobody expected it would be followed by the lackluster coaching tenures of Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke between 2008 and 2014. This had Michigan fans even hungrier to restore its championship ways. Which is part of the reason Michigan's recruiting class ranks suffered.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. Stick with it the same way you “didn’t get” Twitter in 2007 when you signed up but by 2009 you were using it effortlessly. But get on the treadmill.”

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, as more and more members of Party C move to compete in the late stage private market, they often pitch as “value-add” that they will help you navigate the public offering process because they have so much “experience.” It took courage for Zach Nelson and the team at Netsuite to also use a Dutch Auction in 2007.

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