TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Becca’s latest for TC+ — use code EQUITY for 50% off an annual membership — gets into why the hiring slide in the pitch deck is no longer going to be a throwaway part of the presentation. My big question is if VCs are taking the same advice that they’re dishing. Expect more scrutiny. Don’t forget VCs, you have VCs too. (

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

HubSpot doesn’t allow blocking of downloads and Docsend does, so we continue to use them. . We are setting up the following process: every time a company mails us their pitch or further information, we send to a special email, e.g., inbound(@)versatilevc.com. downloadable white papers, models, etc). Sharing decks: Docsend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the startup world, when you’re pitching your idea and proposing your solution in the preliminary stage, no one wants to come across as critical or unsupportive, so people will sometimes avoid sharing negative feedback that actually could be quite valuable. But how do you do that? At the beginning, don’t think about selling.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Most board meetings are “update meetings” where management downloads its status to a group of investors. You don’t even have to follow the advice they give. Presenting at Meetings without Going Down a Rathole (this was written for VC pitches but many lessons apply). Startup Advice' Meeting Dynamics.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For instance, Glossier’s email campaign merely wants the reader to scroll through beautiful phone backgrounds and maybe download one to use as their wallpaper. . Want to drive mobile app downloads? So why not apply that sentiment to other businesses, helpful tools, and third-party apps your subscribers would love to download and use?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. Startup Advice' That is what we set out to solve at MyTime. I’d be delighted if you gave it a try.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Fuelfinance Their pitch: “We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automation. Howly “You choose a category where you need professional advice and type your question in the chat form. Claims 250M downloads (+70M / 38% growth). Recently closed a new funding round of €1M from SMOK Ventures, a US-Polish venture capital fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

So here are all of the bacteria and fungi and importantly what is the relative amount of each of those bacteria,” explains CEO and co-founder Priyanka Jain, noting that users also get their test data in a downloadable format so they can take the information to their healthcare provider if they wish.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

SmartHustle Podcast with Ramon Ray · Business Growth Advice for Scaling Your Business. I'm trying to do as many sales pitches as I can. You might be getting a thousand leads a day, but are they just a thousand suspects of people who think you're cool and want to download your stuff? We were pretty surprised too! Listen Now.

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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. So, I guess it was growth hacking even then, but I downloaded the email list of the entire physics department — every professor. Any surprise learnings?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The pitch to business/public sector customers is speedier corporate/internal search without compromising commercial data privacy. ” On the consumer side there will also be some premium add-ons headed for the app — so the plan is for it to be a freemium download. That’s right; you get zero ads in search results.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. Why you should never have a data room?—?the

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In large part, that is a result of who pitches to VCs, not surprisingly. 4) You get one shot at pitching. Too many times I hear pitches that include “And we haven’t even spent any money on marketing yet” as if money was this magic dust that makes everyone want to download your app. 9) You need a deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Startup Advice' I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. So I did that kind of stuff.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. “ If you were selling a company to Google, would you trust Google’s banker to give you advice at the same time?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

If you’ve previously downloaded the app, please delete it and re-download to get the latest update. ” Download here. ” Download here. based Apple or Google account to download and use the mobile app. . Navigating Silicon Valley — OG Advice for African Founders , with Fast Forward Venture Studio.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

I’ve written more about “why now” in the context of pitching elsewhere , but it’s interesting to see that surface. There’s a stark change: Investors are spending 60% more time on the financials section of a pitch deck compared to a year ago. Decks are getting shorter; last year, the average successful deck had 19 slides.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

That was important when I first re-downloaded it in college and subscribed to get a notification every single time Boston Business Journal tweeted news — and it’s important now as I try to understand what founders think in real time (versus what they want to tell a TechCrunch reporter over Zoom). Pitch Deck Teardown: Sateliot’s $11.4M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

with a wall of amazing content for you to download straight into your brain. When to build a freemium plan and how to get it right Three more from the TC+ team: Teaming with good advice : Haje goes deep on the team slide, and why it is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck. What is a better expression these days?),

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