Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Some thousands of pitch decks later, he looks for the following key questions and points to be addressed in founder pitch decks: Who is your customer? Not having an appropriate framework by which to evaluate the opportunity. As angels we get pitched ideas from all over the place. Client segments? How do we solve it?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription In keeping with tradition, TechCrunch staffers selected their favorites from the latest batch. Now, the company has 50 employees, plans to open a cat café and is eyeing an expansion into retail. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. .”

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Dream It

MAY 27, 2020

In this #DreamitDose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh gives founders a simple framework to crush your demo. Make sure your demo highlights how your product solves a big and urgent need, which is the most critical element of your investor pitch. While listening, you can follow this framework line by line using the table underneath.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. The best way to find marketing hacks is by using “stringent experimentation frameworks to run countless A/B tests,” he advises. In reality, growth hacking consists of testing new ideas on an ongoing basis. Aydin Senkut, founder and managing partner, Felicis Ventures.

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David Teten VC

MAY 26, 2021

The obvious solution is to get in touch with your friends who have earlier raised or pitched to the family offices. A Framework for Venture Capital Fund Law. Family offices more than any other allocator rely on trust. Not always the case (and always changing), but today it’s still the majority.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s no magic formula for creating a winning pitch deck, which is why most of the articles we run on this topic continually emphasize the fundamentals. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your day-to-day strategic decisions and your sales pitch are two very different things. How to fix it: Build a framework to collect feedback from users, customers, and the team. They not only had a good product, they likely had help and a robust strategic framework to go to market. Do it whenever it adds value. The others die.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. The new framework benefits consumers and sellers, but for the region’s startups, “it opens the door to a plethora of opportunities and new business models, from payments to credit.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. She’s written a guide for incoming CISOs that contains a framework for setting goals, creating action plans and, most importantly, documenting risk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In this article aimed at early-stage founders, Kolluri shares a detailed framework with timelines that can help determine whether it’s time to look for a buyer or keep reaching for the stars. “How can you choose?

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions. Although the exemptions remain complex, the changes provide incremental improvement to the existing framework. Almost all of the new rules should become effective early next year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck. Instead, we look for “here’s what worked for me” articles that give readers actionable insights. RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

In a companion article on TechCrunch , Eric explores these broader shifts, concluding, “you can start to see a world emerging that sounds a lot more like the fantasies of a New Urbanist than the world before the pandemic.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. yourprotagonist.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn Tom’s tips for setting up fast, aligned teams to drive growth at your company. A free worksheet to apply everything that you’ve learned in this article so far. Their main role in the Dream Team framework is to set a clear and compelling strategy, drive alignment, and liberally share context.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Cory Bolotsky , Co-Chair of the VC Platform Global Community shares a ten-component framework to comprehensively cover a VC fund’s Platform Strategy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2022

I’ve implemented them into my strategy, and I’ve got : Investment pitches Working with some big brands Building beta list Getting press releases Before diving into best practices for cold emailing, a little background. link back your article on their website) which means their readers will read your article ?

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. This article originally posted at the Center for American Entrepreneurship ’s Ideas Blog. government’s support of venture capital and entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

This is not a boast, but a warning: I could write a how-to article on almost any topic. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure. Image Credits: erhui1979 / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability — the “aha!” Data show that traditional marketing doesn’t work on developers, and it’s not because they’re impervious to a sales pitch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In his latest TC+ post, Michael Perez, director of growth and data at VC firm M13, shares five questions he uses to devise pricing strategy frameworks , along with three value metrics and a detailed measurement plan for GTM strategy. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. It provides analytics to track shared materials across target senders, and improve the content for future leads. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Here’s what I recommend sharing with the stake investor as the possible “gives” in your sales pitch: Economic benefits: typically lower carry, possibly lower management fee and/or a stake in the GP’s economics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription In October 2022, incoming Twitter CEO Elon Musk polled his followers: “Bring back Vine? The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. To find more growth marketing tactics and strategies you can implement on your own, check out his recent five-article series: Setting up a landing page. Tenacious in Turkey Dear Sophie: Will published articles better my odds of getting an O-1A or H-1B visa? Is that true?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“It’s essential to analyze the tools available before you decide on a cloud infrastructure provider to keep application maturity and running costs in check,” according to Sashank Purighalla, founder and CEO of BOS Framework. How are they currently solving this problem?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

This article is based on an episode of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast, where Tal shared his seven-step method to managing a meeting with investors, including actionable tips for effectively following up on promising pitches. Over time, he created a framework that changes the dynamic. ” Iddo Tal. ” he asked.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. —– TinySeed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. How to turn user data into your next pitch deck. Investors might enjoy listening to a founder’s well-rehearsed story, but sharing the right customer data “can definitively power up a pitch deck,” says David Smith, VP of data and analytics at TheVentureCity. Series A deck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Here’s some candid advice for late-stage startup workers: Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. If you’ve been nurturing an idea for a company, put together a pitch deck and start reaching out now to investors: they will be more receptive than you think. That’s no hot take.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

But those figures don’t matter when you’re pitching: Investors expect to see a business plan that describes how you plan to reach profitability within 3-5 years. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. About 10% of startups will fail in their first year.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

” In this TC+ article, he explains how to identify the right time to roll out a freemium plan and, equally importantly, when not to. He also includes a tactical framework for developing freemium products that includes use cases for limited and unlimited usage.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. If you’re between the ages of 15 and 35, it’s really cool and you might be able to get a job doing it. If you’re above the age of 35, it’s unholy and against the order of society and will destroy everything.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Best practices for changing times: How founders should leverage AI and ML in 2023 Image Credits: Getty Images We don’t run many articles promoting basic best practices. Here’s how they raised : Haje is back with another Pitch Deck Teardown: StudentFinance’s $41 million Series A deck. Alex and Anna wonder. You can sign up here.

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