Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got to be able to come out of unsuccessful VC meetings, pull your socks up, and go into the next pitch. Ask any entrepreneur who has been through the recent washout that began in September 2008. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Stories like these are not rare.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs. What are the most common mistakes in first pitch? They decided to run the fund close to home in West Conshohocken, PA where they still have offices. How do people get access to First Round Capital?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. As a result I freed up the time to get back into shape. I swam every morning and ran every afternoon. I lost perspective and my life hasn’t been in balance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

ET, M13 Managing Partner Karl Alomar will join me on a Twitter Space to share his advice for fundraising during a downturn. Pitch Deck Teardown: WayRay’s $80M Series C deck. Many founders start by building a 10-slide pitch deck, but AR car hardware company WayRay’s Series C presentation contained 75 slides. PT/2:30 p.m.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Our clients ranged from not-for-profits to luxury boatbuilders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“It’s comparable to the financial crisis of 2008, when poor financial products were lumped together in order to diversify risk and make them look better than they actually were,” he writes. Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said. Plus, they were gracious enough to share some of the advice they’re giving to their portfolio companies. What advice are you giving to your portfolio companies?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. I’ve always said that the low-interest rate environment that we’ve had really since 2008 has generated an interest-free loan on risky startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s Thursday, which means that Haje also wrote another installment of his popular Pitch Deck Teardown series on our subscription site TechCrunch Plus. A promise: We won’t run any articles on TechCrunch+ with advice for navigating a downturn unless the author actually knows what they’re talking about.

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Y Combinator

MAY 30, 2024

I might pitch it differently today depending on who I’m talking to — we do a lot more than that now — but that’s still the simplest distillation. "When the iPhone came out in 2008, that was the true end of my physics career." [We’ve grown], but we’re still the same!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. Raising money is hard.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.” Adora Cheung [44:57] – What is your best piece of advice for aspiring Indian founders? 46:45 – Why is Delhi the best IIT?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That’s painful, but for perspective: TechCrunch tracked more than 100,000 tech layoffs between August and December 2008. Building a company is a high-stakes effort, so here’s a promise: I won’t approve articles with advice for navigating this downturn unless the author has direct experience with the matter. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From the earliest pitch decks I had ever created. And I can see how — whenever we pitch — people just feel uncomfortable. Image credits: Daye. “This was actually always part of the original vision for Daye. They look to the floor. They avoid eye contact.”

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