TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. What do people often misunderstand about pitch training? For those with a bit more experience, pitching is about a set of slides to achieve a certain goal, mostly funding.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

She’s even been on several board calls already and last week showed up on her first pitch call. That also makes our senior management much more gender diverse—which tends to lead to better decision making and collaboration.” Home is a different story.

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500

MAY 21, 2019

The 19 companies were on FIRE and rose to the occasion to give the best versions of their pitches. Also in attendance were representatives of both local and international media to cover this groundbreaking collaboration between 500 and Misk Innovation. Its been one week since the Misk 500 Batch 1 Demo Day and we’re still smiling.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Scrintal recently raised $1 million to build its visual collaborative knowledge base tool and shared its deck for us to take a peek under the hood. I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

Pitch, the company behind a collaborative presentation software for businesses, is scaling back and bootstrapping, with CEO and co-founder Christian Reber stepping down and two-thirds of its employees losing their jobs. This translates roughly to 80 personnel, based on the 120 headcount figure Pitch has published on its about page.

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MAY 4, 2021

Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. I explained that this wasn’t really a pitch because it lacked all sorts of context. Having been called out, I set up a meeting—but I didn’t do it to take a charity pitch. Who was the team?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In a classic, “but wait, there’s more” moment, all exhibitors will be able to pitch to conference attendees from around the world. The $360 exhibitor pass includes a digital exhibition space, the ability to gather leads who visit your exhibit space and three tickets to the conference for your coworkers.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Behind every startup, SME and scaleup statistic, and behind every failed pitch, idea, or venture is a human being with thoughts, feelings and frailties like anyone else. Everything else we do (our “What” – programmes, pitches, funding) is secondary.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I''m actually starting a company/have started a company in this space and don''t have anything to share at the moment, but will at some point would love to be able to share our funding news, product launches, or maybe collaborate with other companies on trend pieces in the space.". 4) Collaborate with other startups.

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JULY 17, 2014

Whether she got better at pitching or the tides turned in the hardware space in general, I''m excited that some investors eventually did step up--and when they did, the seed round became oversubscribed, totalling $1.8

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Every pitch I’ve ever seen has led to the, “Would Amazon eventually do this? So today I’m excited to announce that Upfront Ventures is leading an $8 million round with some amazing co-investors including Founder’s Fund, OATV, Lowercase, High Peaks, Collaborative Fund and many great angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Momentum pulled off what every entrepreneur dreams of: Last year, it closed a lead investor for its seed round — which our own Ron Miller covered at the time — without even creating a pitch deck. Once a lead was secured, Momentum created a pitch deck to fill out the round. Makes the pitch feel current.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." The level of talent and supportive collaboration among the community at Studiomates checks both boxes and continues to ensure that everything he puts out is top notch. Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Top early-stage VCs: They’ll share best practices when it comes to issues like securing funding and improving your pitch deck. Connect and collaborate with new founders at TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch Other entrepreneurs just like you: Building a startup can be a lonely endeavor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. 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. . Well, that’s the world Five Flute wants to live in. The company raised a $1.2 Slides in this deck.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Kenna is the founder and chief executive of LinkUp , a company that provides small businesses in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines a digital space to collaborate as well as promote and sell their products and services. I used to pitch ideas to my cousins and my parents of ways I was going to make money. What keeps you motivated?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Joe is collaborating on an entrepreneurial enrichment program available to university entrepreneur centers across the country. “I I scrambled to get my application done and worked on my pitch. After that round, EO members mentored and helped me hone my pitch before competing in the US Nationals.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Understanding the audience and designing products that suit their needs requires close cross-functional collaboration to get it right. While you're out pitching to investors and press in the outside role, they're testing to see whether or not people understand the word "invite" versus "request" in the context of your app.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. finally ) Jordan completely owned this process (although he had major support from Kyle Taylor and from our collaboration partner on this process – Red Antler.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Would we pitch Series A players? It's too easy to think that if you tilt the pitch just a little one way or the other, that's going to make the difference, but that's Monday morning quarterbacking. What we found is that while most of the people turned down the invite, most of the people who showed up invested.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We felt this was a marquee account and one that would help us take our collaboration tool global as Thames owned assets all over the world. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Series B of $85 million to take it on with what it believes is a more dynamic approach. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint. The startup has already seen good progress on the latter front.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We felt this was a marquee account and one that would help us take our collaboration tool global as Thames owned assets all over the world. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Lisa Wu, a partner at Norwest with investments like Calm, Plaid, Opendoor and Grove Collaborative, has a message for founders: Think like a VC during your pitch presentation. After all, accepting capital isn’t simply adding more money to your balance sheet.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We need leaders who know how to accomplish feats through teamwork and collaboration. Truly, in many ways, my concern was the inverse of normal business pitches. We need leaders who can rigorously prioritize. We need leaders who can deal with a vague set of inputs and rationalize decision matrices. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While the group we saw that had the largest number of members (~1k) was an open pitch around podcast ideas and soliciting help for podcast projects. “We are all about building a platform, and a community around collaborative short-form audio. “We raised $3M in late 2020. ” What about monetization?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Box offers a 90-day free subscription with unlimited storage, 50,000 API calls, and more for their secure file sharing and collaboration platform. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

How can you send some young MBA “biz dev type&# out into battle to sign up partners when you’ve never met with your potential business development collaborators and heard what their goals are and how you can meet them? And you need to watch them pitch. Also, this goes equally for business development.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Catherine Marshall with MicroEnterprise Collaborative of Inland Southern California said they are ready to develop their network further by emphasizing professional development, leadership development and technical assistance so that Resource Partners can maximize their services.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. I've seen about a dozen companies in the last year trying to help me figure out what to do with my time and how to collaborate with my friends around events. What areas are going to change? Calendaring.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In 2019, the technology, which is a secure, real-time workspace for collaborating across care teams, has been implemented at multiple provider locations, expanding beyond major health systems. With that momentum, TrekIT Health was able to secure foundational investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners last year.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

More than 100 interactive sessions will ensure attendees have opportunities to network, learn, and collaborate in ways that are impossible at larger, more impersonal events. For the startup community, HumanX will offer a special pitch competition sponsored by Google Cloud, with the potential for founders to win up to $1 million in investment.

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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. Our streamlined, collaborative process means you get to leverage the expertise of dozens of fellow members to get to YES or NO in just a few short hours.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story". You recognize the value in collaboration over selfishness. Are there examples of that? Does that make it a viable strategy for every new entrepreneur? Not in the slightest. How did this startup come to be?

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