This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Whether you’re going through an accelerator or you’re at some kind of speed dating event, short “office hours” meetings present both an opportunity and a problem for investors. However, it’s a terrible way to get your whole pitch in. It’s a great way to get out from behind the e-mail and actually meet people face to face.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. Chris writes that early-stage deals should have: Founder vesting w/ acceleration on change of control. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2012

Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. Are you waiting for them to pitch you? It's happening on their side, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I think his advice is this op-ed is bananas. I have even had to get physical security advice from some of the crazy. I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. No, it’s not fun.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When emerging entrepreneur David Davila started to develop his idea of a family business selling coffee, one of his friends recognized that he had a great idea and encouraged him to apply to Union Kitchen, a startup accelerator in the United States. Accelerators such as Union Kitchen, a startup food business accelerator in the Washington D.C.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Incidentally, VC’s hate when they hear companies pitching who say, “ I don’t have real competitors &# as I outlined point three in the linked post). So is there nothing you can do to accelerate sales? Tags: Start-up Advice. I know I didn’t.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I often see pitch decks positioning themselves as a Seed raise but realistically are at Pre-Seed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

However, I believe that accelerators can be the glue bringing the two together. I’ve participated in a number of accelerators, including Disney and Techstars, and these programs gave me a noticeable advantage when I stepped into VC. Accelerators are hubs for diversity. Boost serendipitous, strategic meetings.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

To be clear, I said that most companies I see pitching have COOs & I don’t have a rule against it. I know it’s much sexier to race around talking about buying up companies than it is tweaking your business operations to accelerate revenue, reduce churn and grow faster. I expected it to be controversial and it was.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Soon, Together Labs will introduce additional blockchain offerings to accelerate the transition to a complete blockchain economy, setting the economic model for other metaverses to follow. Korea Pavilion Pitch Session – Hosted by KOTRA. Brought to you by VCOIN. Securing Your journey to IPO from the start.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Keep it short.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Dame shared one piece of advice that I’d never heard from an investor: more founders should learn to make themselves vulnerable. Pitch deck teardown: Minut. If you’d like to see your pitch deck featured on TechCrunch+, click through for details. Pitch Deck Teardown: Minut. “They tend to get ripped off.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ’s Accelerator program empowers early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow and master their businesses. How has your participation in EO Accelerator impacted your entrepreneurial journey?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

If you want to build enduring companies that weather both the tech market acceleration and the inevitable tech market correction as companies like LinkedIn have done you need to ask yourself if you’re solving a real problem for users that will persist when hotness wears off. They pitch me features, not value.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. We’ll see. TechStars Interactions. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. You don’t get to know companies that way. It’s very artificial and contrived. Yet I love TechStars.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, don’t forget that most likely, angels you’re pitching to want to offer their best advice and be part of your journey to success and changing the landscape of an industry. They want to be part of your effort to change an industry. Like it or not, status plays a role for angel investors. How do you attract angel investors?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. She’s the author of A Business Owner’s Guide to Crisis PR: Protecting You & Your Business’ Reputation and serves as her chapter’s Accelerator co-chair. Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

After analyzing hundreds of sales organizations across startups, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. Compensation Design Structure effective comp plans : Balance base salary, commission, and accelerators to drive desired behaviors.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Dayna will talk about how, beyond the idea, founders can pitch investors on their TAM, including how they will wedge into the market and how they will eventually disrupt it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to the new funding, APX also today announced that it is doing away with its 100-day accelerator program and instead opting for a long-term commitment to its companies, including participation in future rounds. “We will try and invest into 50 or more companies this year — and we were at 35 last year.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 2, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Accelerate your journey by shamelessly asking for advice and feedback from the best and brightest.”. Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders.

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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 11:30 – 12:00pm PT Hear from two local investors who will talk through actionable advice on fundraising and company building. Pitch-off! REGISTER HERE FOR FREE We need your help!

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

I’m thrilled to share that Haje Jan Kamps , a longtime reporter and the creator of our amazing Pitch Deck Teardown series, will be taking over Startups Weekly. Now, founding partners Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson are launching an accelerator of their own. The advice is a lot like one-size-fits-all,” Mohnot said. “We

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. A quick glance into founder dating sites or startup accelerator applicant pools you will see that in most cases the tech founders are outweighed by at least 10 to 1. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tapping into someone else’s experience is a tried-and-true method, which is why two-time Y Combinator participant Chris Morton wrote a guest post for Extra Crunch with advice for founders hoping to be accepted by the famed accelerator. “Go back to work instead of spending more time perfecting an application.”.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

” In classic TC+ “how to” style, Raissi, a former software engineer, explains the process his team used to accelerate their Series B, the tactics they used to manage investors and how the strategy led to a $40 million round. Pitch Deck Teardown: Alto Pharmacy’s $200M Series E deck.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. It’s demo day season. The moonshots.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I approached a chapter peer, Brian Scudamore, and asked if he would be willing to donate his time: an afternoon with a student giving them marketing advice, discussing lessons he’s learned and touring the office. When you pitch this idea to a member initially, they might say, “I don’t have anything to offer, and I don’t want to give money.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Entrepreneurs seek to find the right investor and to make the best pitch when the opportunity comes Entrepreneurs start their companies with great passion and big dreams. Institutional investors, however, have a more formal set of criteria associated with later-stage funding when revenue is trending up and accelerating.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

. “Decreased consumer confidence, inflated brand value, and a freeze in investment capital are creating a perfect storm,” says David Wright, co-founder and CEO of Pattern, an e-commerce accelerator. 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

JANUARY 19, 2023

Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future founders accelerate the learning curve. Top early-stage VCs: They’ll share best practices when it comes to issues like securing funding and improving your pitch deck.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I approached a chapter peer, Brian Scudamore, and asked if he would be willing to donate his time: an afternoon with a student giving them marketing advice, discussing lessons he’s learned and touring the office. When you pitch this idea to a member initially, they might say, “I don’t have anything to offer, and I don’t want to give money.”

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