Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Founders meet with dozens of potential customers and partners on multi-city Customer Sprints™, pitch leading venture firms during Investor Sprints™, receive hands-on coaching, and gain access to a vast network of experienced alumni and advisors.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

LPs failed to make capital calls in the late 90s during the dot-com bubble burst, after September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008. In 2008-2009, the financial markets seized up, and there were quarters of complete uncertainty, but ultimately VCs started investing again and things normalized. This is not without precedent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I already had this argument with Ron Conway and we disagree on the topic. I believe this is wrong.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It turned out I wasn’t such a great product manager, the technical things we were doing were about two years too early—about to be made orders of magnitude easier by a lot of cloud and big data tools, and, oh, yeah, Lehman went under when I was pitching VCs for money in 2008.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. Founders planning near-term fundraising rounds need to understand that an economic downturn is one of the most difficult times to pitch to investors. Even then, they may still be skeptical.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. By mid September the entire market was constipated. Many deals – VC or otherwise – didn’t close.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Shardul joined Index in 2008.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

The honorees will also either throw out the ceremonial first pitch from donor to recipient, deliver the game ball, or announce “play ball” to signal the start of the games. Contributed to EO by Dave Galbenski, an EO Detroit member who served as EO Global Chair in 2008-2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. If you normally pitch 30 investors to get 3-4 interested in good circumstances all you’ve done by putting off your mess is decrease your odds of getting funded. It is 2010. This doesn’t suit anybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

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. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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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. Your employees are looking in your eyes for signs of weakness and self doubt. Stories like these are not rare.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. Perfecting My Pitch. How Hire Santa Started. I went all in.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. 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. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. Shame on you.

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500

MAY 12, 2020

These highly successful technology startups were all founded during the Great Recession in 2008-2010. The post 5 Tips for Pitching VCs in Virtual Times appeared first on 500 Startups. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are once again fighting through difficult times to both survive and transform the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. We also took one of our large portfolio companies, Ulta, public.

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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. Tinkering: The tinkering period lasted for almost 2 years from 2006 to 2008, where Andrew Mason first launched ‘The Point’ which eventually became Groupon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

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). In the first year (2008), we had a meager budget, limited staff support, and only seven months to pull everything together.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

The program helps entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success, discuss business models and financials with experts, expand their network, engage with other entrepreneurs, and develop a pitch deck for funding opportunities. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Lane also suggested that VCs’s enduring focus on presentations and pitch decks rather than “normal, human conversation” continues to negatively impact underrepresented founders, who typically have less experience in the former categories. in 2008 — that’s quite fast!!”

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. You may need more than one pitch deck. You may need more than one pitch deck. The send-ahead deck.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

And more to the point – if you hit a major economic down cycle (like September 2008) you’ll have tough times with all investors. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. But it will be much easier to get a small bridge from a VC than one from angels. and a VC’s fund has one purpose – startups.

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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. 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. But now I’m nearly 42.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Startup Battlefield — the matriarch of all pitch competitions — is the stuff of tech legend. A little startup by the name of Dropbox competed in the Battlefield at TC50 (the precursor to Disrupt) way back in 2008. Your demo and presentation will be, well, pitch perfect when you deliver it to panels of top VC judges.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2018

At that August Demo Day, each pitch lasted eight minutes. The same is true for fundraising pitches. The fundraising pitches of 2008 highlighted leading indicators of success: the product, the vision, the team. I was attending my first YCombinator Demo Day, maybe three months into my time at Redpoint. Much has changed.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My first YC Demo Day was in Summer of 2008, where my startup and twenty-one others anxiously pitched a room full of investors on what we’d been working so hard to build. Fifteen years later, I’m here as YC’s president kicking off our 37th Demo Day — the one celebrating the Summer 2023 batch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

7 investors explain why they’re all in The $100M venture round is going extinct 5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs And with that, thank you for being here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while; we shared it as a gallery back in 2017 , and these days it isn’t really seen as a good example of how to do a pitch deck. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. There are even LP fund-of-funds who raise capital with a main marketing pitch of providing better access to direct investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The startup, which has raised over $650 million in funding since launching in 2008 , is partially known for its controversial approach to weight loss and dieting. Noom’s scaleback of its coaching services suggests a departure from the platform’s original pitch, which was to combine intelligent nutrition with exercise coaching.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008. It’s the day of the weekly “Waffle Pitch” – a local take on the classic “Falafel Pitch” hosted by many Impact Hubs around the globe.

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