A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

— Sam Altman (@sama) September 26, 2021. — Jordan Cooper (@jordancooper) September 23, 2021. — Jordan Cooper (@jordancooper) September 23, 2021. USV TEAM POSTS: Hannah Murdoch — Sep 27, 2021 Fiveable’s Series A. I am not proclaiming the death of Silicon Valley.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 19, 2021

The elevator pitch as we know it today comes from Hollywood. An aspiring screenwriter would corner an unsuspecting executive in an elevator and pitch his/her concept during the time it took to go one floor. If the executive liked the pitch they would stay on until their floor. That’s not an elevator pitch. Where to begin?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well. I used to pitch ideas to my cousins and my parents of ways I was going to make money. As I went on pitching the idea to other groups, I realized that so many companies, not just small ones, were having these problems. We value continuous improvement for quality.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. With all that in mind, we’re introducing a special summer edition of Extra Crunch Live that’s all pitch-off, all the time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. With all that in mind, we’re introducing a special summer edition of Extra Crunch Live that’s all pitch-off, all the time.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams will pitch their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000! The post THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE IS HOSTING A VIRTUAL PITCH EVENT! appeared first on BFTP/CNP. Dial in at [link].

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The 2020 Summer Olympic games (which took place in Tokyo in 2021), were my 10-year-old daughter’s first real exposure to competitive sports. For example, I’ve had to post a 30-second pitch video on my social media and direct my followers to visit the company’s website to vote for me. You have to look out for your own mental health.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. It’s pretty rare that I get to talk to someone who is as big of a pitch deck nerd as I am, but when I was finally able to nerd out with the research lead at DocSend , how could I not?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

Mimi Aboubaker writes more about this in Techcrunch: In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% to teams with both women and men on their founding teams, according to PitchBook data.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You’ll expand your network, engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000! The weekly ZOOM sessions will be on Tuesdays, March 23, 2021 – June 2, 2021 / 2:00 – 5:00 P.M. The deadline for applications is March 10, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. Those startups will pitch their products/businesses to a pair of expert VC judges, who will then give their live feedback.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

He never needed a pitch deck or a business plan Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

SaaS is still open for business, but it’s going to take longer to buy and sell How to pitch CVCs Image Credits: Getty Images As individual VC firms pulled back and began amassing dry powder in 2022, corporate venture capital (CVC) funds stepped up. PitchBook found that CVCs played a part in 56.2%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Perfect pitch, a singer’s ability to produce any given musical note without a reference tone, is a rare phenomenon — only 1-5 people out of every 10,000 have it. While your odds of creating a perfect pitch deck that captures coveted VC interest aren’t quite that dire, they’re not exactly in your favor, either.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Equally notable: one-third of all unicorns created in 2021 were fintech companies. The 2021 Matrix Fintech Index reported that public fintech companies outperformed the market by 3x, driven in large part by favorable IPO debuts, SPACs, and increased adoption of digital payments and e-commerce, BNPL in particular. Let’s talk!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2021

I was reminded of all of that history yesterday as our firm listened to a pitch by a Latin American team that is building a very exciting company. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 9, 2021 Mask Mandates Were Effective. Jerry, Susan, and I made a great team and we did something really important together.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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 company shared its deck, dated November 2021, in full, without edits or redactions, so we can see what the investors saw as they were reaching for their checkbooks. Slides in this deck. If so, how?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the latter half of the episode, those same guests give live feedback to folks in the audience who come on our virtual stage and pitch their products. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. So in these upcoming Startup Alley Edition episodes of Extra Crunch Live, we’re turning the entire episode into a pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Equally notable: One-third of all unicorns created in 2021 were fintech companies. billion in venture funding in 2021. How viable will these levers be for fintech companies in 2022 looking to defend their 2020-2021 growth rates? This year, market conditions are dramatically different in every sector, including fintech.

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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 13, 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

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Last year, at Disrupt 2020, CELA connected the winners of our Pitchers and Pitches mini pitch-off competitions with an accelerator to boost their business. TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. Starting in September 2021, Black-owned businesses harmed by the pandemic can apply to receive one of up to 300 grants of $5,000. The program is set to reopen in September 2021, so get a head start and find out if your business qualifies here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

How to pitch me: 4 VCs share what they’re looking for in March 2022. The publicly-traded software companies that comprise the Bessemer Cloud Index saw “good growth during the pandemic,” reports Alex Wilhelm in The Exchange, but today, it’s lost almost “50% of its value since it reached record highs in late 2021.”

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 25, 2021

Delighted entrepreneurs by giving them answers in 7-10 days from when they pitch and providing pitch feedback they constantly rate as among the best they’ve ever received. I’m proud as hell of what we we did in 2020 and can’t wait to see what 2021 brings us.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2021

For example, for me, I didn’t just put in “e-mail time”, I divided up the amount of time I spend responding to entrepreneur pitches in e-mail vs other types of e-mail, which I labeled “correspondence”. We started working through the different types of work we do in our jobs—not only based on the type of task but also on particular projects.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Through the AIMMO DaaS platform, its sales and volume of its data labeling increased by 200% in 2021 compared to the previous year. AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck. billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $8.2 ScreenShot | AIMMO website.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In early 2021, that company raised $750 million at a staggering $35 billion valuation. A tool for analyzing face-to-face sales pitches lands funding from UiPath co-founder by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch. Rillavoice is transforming outside sales,” said Dylan Reider, partner at Crew Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

billion in 2021. Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 To help TechCrunch+ readers understand why Glambook’s pitch helped seal the deal, Haje Jan Kamps tears down their 19-slide deck, depicting a company that’s rapidly gaining traction in a “market that is bigger than you think.”. Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“We also made sure to check their LinkedIns twice: once in early 2021, when there were practically no tech layoffs, and again in early 2023, in the wake of the worst round of tech layoffs since 2001.” Job platform interviewing.io ” Should you post that you’re #OpenToWork? ” Do you need a deck to raise from VCs? .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings. Michael and his co-founder Panos Rigopoulos raised a $5 million Series A that closed in September 2021, where cold emails played a pivotal role. Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Smith discuss the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , which will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives. The virtual event runs April 27 to 28, 2021.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.”

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