This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If economists tried to measure the cost of the malaise that the election of 2016 left, we'd undoubtedly see billions, if not more, lost in worker productivity. I met Rachel Renock a few months ago at a SheWorx pitch event. It reminded me of when I first heard the pitch for Kickstarter and then witnessed what it would become.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

I first got introduced to them by my friend Kevin Marshall back in March of 2016 when they were Creditbridge (Petal is to Creditbridge what Frogger is to Highway Crossing Frog, I suppose). He sent me a pitch and I didn't quite understand the issue, so I passed. That's important for a VC.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

TechCrunch just hosted its first pitch-off in Detroit and we’re pleased to announce Diet ID won the event. The company, based in Detroit and founded in 2016 by Dr. David Katz, gives users a clinically tested approach to dietary assessment and management. The entire pitch-off is embedded above.

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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. Apply here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. Fast forward to 2016. And the CEO adds that honestly, not much changed aesthetically between that first pitch and the Series A deck. “It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. “Who is this product for?”

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Female membership in ACA was at about 11% in 2016, and now five years later, the membership in ACA is closer to 25%, according to Sarah Dickey, membership director for the Angel Capital Association. Make sure you are pitching to a fund that is appropriate for where your business is right now.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The following article was written by Glen Carlson , co-founder of the Key Person of Influence Business Accelerator, for the March 2016 edition of Octane magazine : Consider the three types of branding you can develop as a business owner: a company brand, a product brand and a personal brand. is about taking that pitch and scaling it.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.” “We Silicon X Syndrome So if cities are like startups, what “startup-ish” characteristics might they exhibit? We are the Facebook for Y.” “We

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The fact that I still see it referred to in pitch decks is farcical. In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016. There are unwritten rules in The Valley — you don’t screw other investors when everybody decided to pitch in and help out the company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2016

There are a number of podcasts aimed at entrepreneurship – Forbes recommended twelve in this article , including StartUp and the Pitch – but we’ve also found career inspiration in other programming that’s not specifically geared toward business. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and LinkedIn for daily posts!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

Tom Charman is a “studentrepreneur,” an EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) finalist in 2016 and co-founder and CEO of KOMPAS , a city exploration application helping people discover amazing but little-known adventures hidden in the world’s urban jungles. You were an EO GSEA Global Finalist in 2016. What inspires you most?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Founded in 2016 by chief executive officer SeungTaek Oh, the startup has three data annotation tools: AIMMO DaaS, which manages sensor fusion data for autonomous vehicle corporations; AIMMO GtaaS, a turnkey-based platform for big data; and AIMMO Enterprises, launched in 2020, a web-based SaaS annotation labeling tool using cloud architecture.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 Wave Ventures has invested in 23 startups since 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. These are companies like hardware maker Native Instruments, which launched the Sounds.com marketplace last year, and there’s also Arcade by Output that’s pitching a similar service. . Image Credits: Getty Images.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 12, 2018

They began laying the groundwork for Radformation in 2016, after all three left their jobs working as medical physicists in the cancer clinic. Finding this is more rare than you think it would be--as many pitch meetings fall apart quickly, like someone who thinks they're passable in a foreign language until they talk to a native speaker.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 10, 2023

Existing investor WFC, along with iAngels Network, Sateeq Invest, and Impactful Pitch structured syndicates, and marquee industry mix global HNIs, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. Hear how Bennett pitched early investors, and what investors like Holt can provide to mobility companies. The interview begins at 12 pm PT followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 pm PT.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. By the time she approached some of them for funding, she didn’t even need to present a full pitch. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” You know it was a good application video when the same pitch can be reused in the S-1. Here’s their pitch: Many investors were skeptical, and they didn’t make it onto the list of top picks from Demo Day, but fortunately they were able to raise a seed round and keep growing. That was followed by Demo Day in late August.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Loughlin then “came back home” to Accel in 2016, and has led investments in companies like Airkit, Ascend.io, Clockwise, Ironclad, Monte Carlo, Nines, Productiv, Split.io, and Vivun. Then, it’s time for the Pitch Deck Teardown.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

Kevin Bennett started his auto financing company in 2016. Hear how Bennett pitched early investors, and what investors like Holt can provide to mobility companies. Pitch Deck Teardown: Momentum’s $5M seed pitch deck. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in early 2022 to Caribou. Listen here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. That’s how I found the VC FinTech Accelerator in 2016, where one-third of founders were from minority backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

We first noted the company back in 2016 , when it pitched a method for using drones to spot construction errors before they become too expense. The raise includes existing investor Metropolis VC, along with new additions Liquid 2 Ventures, GEM Capital, GPS Ventures and Andrew Filev.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. If you’d like your pitch deck reviewed by experienced founders and investors on a future episode, you can submit your deck here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After more than 30 years of investing in both private and public companies, I’ve now started as a fund manager, and I recommend that emerging managers ask these five questions before seeking out and pitching to potential LPs. Which LPs are you targeting?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Jones told me that she grew up in Indianapolis, and after moving to New York and later LA to work at the intersection of music, tech and entertainment, she returned to Indy in 2016 to begin helping Black people in the community where she grew up get trained to get decent jobs both in and out of tech.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Specifically, we learn things like pitch decks, focus groups, financial profit and loss statements, legal work and so much more that goes into getting a business started and off the ground. I hope to launch the company in Australia in 2016. I have taken both of those and have learned more here than I did in either of those classes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

I was pitching on the day, but I was also listening to other pitches. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. “So about three years ago, I was at YC, and I was going to invest in my own batch. However , it wasn’t just me; there were many other founders as well,” Olubusi said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A little more than four years later, in 2016, Wealthfront’s original CEO and founder, Andy Rachleff, reclaimed the role. But Nash didn’t disappear from the scene.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The nonprofit Dallas Entrepreneur Center offers public tours, but if you want to practice your pitch or get feedback, you can also apply to present as part of its 1 Million Cups program. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 9, 2016

Starla Tyler hasn’t pitched her business on Shark Tank. Sales for the first quarter of 2016 were triple what they were in the first quarter of 2015. “I She didn’t graduate from Harvard or another prestigious Ivy League school. She doesn’t even have a business degree. She’s on track to do even more this year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” When seed and Series A investors consider an investment in 2016, they will be asking themselves, “How much capital will this company need to raise before an exit?” ” will be “What are your unit economics?”

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