This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2020

To that end, my goal was to make the firm the most accessible VC fund in New York—showing up across diverse communities, getting rid of barriers to access like requirements for warm intros, and being conscious of which patterns of success I believe in and which only serve to reinforce certain power dynamics.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley. Their employees?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

One way we encourage and support young entrepreneurs is through the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) , EO’s premier competition for college and university students who own and operate a business. Residia is a community management platform for residential complexes and condominiums. My dad was the main inspiration.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In support of military Veteran-founded startups, the Fund focuses on space, AI, and cybersecurity leveraging a veteran’s leadership. Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I. in their journey post-service.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2012

By some estimates, 50-60% of New York’s startup community lives in Brooklyn--and at Etsy it’s as high as 80%. I will be working hard to help it reach that potential, while continuing the work I’ve been doing for NYC’s tech community as a whole for the last seven plus years. Brooklyn is my home.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2024

Three finalists received training via workshops and coaching from business advisors, fine-tuning their business plans and pitches for the showcase and pitch competition. In addition to its classroom curriculum, NFTE hosts the Founders Forum Pitch Competition.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

It doesn't have to count as an official pitch of any kind. It's more just to understand the kinds of things VCs are going to ask and want to see when you are ready to pitch. In fact, more people e-mailed me boring powerpoints in the last week than signed up to actually pitch in person. Be a leader in your community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

Foster: “The students’ companies were the product of identifying a problem in their local community and looking for ways to address it. Instead, we saw competitors supporting each other by giving advice and feedback. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2024

These EOers work with the students to refine their pitches and provide insights and tips to help them succeed in the high-level competition. It strengthened my belief in the power of mentorship and the cohesive, supportive nature of the EO network. The depth of learning I gained from the students!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Different groups communicate differently—and it’s important to find objective common ground around language, goals, and risks. There is strength and support in numbers. I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by a diverse community of founders, in the most diverse tech and startup city in the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

At EO, we celebrate and support entrepreneurs on World Entrepreneurs’ Day—and every day! The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a community of entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs everywhere. EO supports entrepreneurs at every age and stage. Why did they decide to join EO as full members after achieving their initial growth goals?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My first pitch was not to investors or potential clients; it was to my fiancée, convincing her to delay our wedding plans until Equifund was up and running — a promise that took significantly longer than the anticipated six months to fulfill. I was not licensed, did not have a college degree, could not code.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

Held at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the 2025 Good Soil Forum continues to serve as a transformative platform that offers not just ideas, but real tools, capital, and community for entrepreneursespecially those from historically underserved backgrounds. Jakes, Chairman of the T.D. Jakes Group and Founder of the Good Soil Movement.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

LANCASTER, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners is pleased to announce the winners of their TechCelerator pitch competition. The pitch competition was the finale for six teams who participated in an intensive 10-week startup boot camp offered by the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. MEH Support took home a cash prize of $6,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering. Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. 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.

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MARCH 1, 2013

Secondly, it was easier for the entrepreneurs to pitch in front of a roomful of a lot of money than one at a time. Again, if the world goes to "click to fund", we risk losing a little bit of a community feel--of people looking out for each other. An angel belonging to a group could find more dealflow. What does that mean?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

I quickly realized after joining a Forum that EO wasn’t just there to help you get rich but to support the complete entrepreneur, from wealth creation to emotional support, community, and education. Finding Strategic Support Running a business is no easy feat.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 20, 2025

Washingtons Premier Connector of Tech and Policy Leaders Welcomes the Next Generation of Innovators that includes Delta Force, an annual cohort designed to support 6-10 of DCs most promising startup founders. Additionally, STATION DC is launching Delta Force, an annual cohort designed to support 6-10 of DCs most promising startup founders.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

A lot of people have talked about the need for NYC to have a PayPal--a multi-billion dollar exit that scattered on the rest of the community a bunch of experienced startup talent that scaled a company over time, as well as a host of new angel investors. The key to this, of course, is that PayPal had over 200 employees when it was acquired.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s an approach to the community that I’ve tried to emulate—to make myself available to founders wherever I can, but it’s not easy to scale. If you’re interested in meeting six NYC companies and you’re a venture investor, do you really want to be one of the few folks not on the list of VCs willing to open up two hours to the community?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

What issues in your community drove you to create this company? Because it’s more convenient to shop online or support a larger business, people weren’t supporting smaller businesses as much as bigger ones. 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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Accelerators have been great for our respective communities. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

GSEA delivers on its vision to empower student entrepreneurs to become the world’s most influential change-makers by supporting them with mentorship, recognition and connections to take their businesses to the next level of success. We can use solar power to pump water into a water tower, and distribute it across the community.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

As the world’s premier, purpose-built organization with a mission to empower entrepreneurs from every industry, culture, and sector, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a member-led community created for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. When we support and encourage others, we unlock potential and drive collective success.

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This is going to be BIG.

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You need a solid business plan, traction to demonstrate market fit, and the skills to pitch effectively. Yet founders often trip up when it comes to investor relations — the ongoing communication and relationship building after that first check clears. Don’t think of investor communication as a one-and-done sales job.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Blog to your community. The results have been both unexpected and astounding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If you told me that a company that’s charging $70 per month for multivitamins would be able to raise a $10 million round, I’d demand to see the receipts, and I’d be very curious indeed to see its pitch deck. Rootine is the company, and the founders were gracious enough to share their pitch deck with me. Cover slide.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Move on, keep looking and find people who are truly supportive, on your terms. Another thing that skews the process is the lack of accessibility of many partner-level VCs, especially to diverse communities. What about pitch competitions that sound like Ancient Roman death matches? Look, I get it.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2014

Stick around long enough in a big tech community and you''ll see your share of big company evangelists come and go. They support entreprenership because they see the ROI: Be helpful to a startup now, be there when they''re high on promise and low on cash, and you could be the platform that the next Facebook runs on for a long time to come.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

We strive to make entrepreneurship more accessible, and hope that by sharing our knowledge publicly, we can support the founder community more broadly. The new library is the perfect complement to Startup School , our free online program and global community for founders.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We also had a strong incentive to make our program successful: despite the shared branding and core values, each Techstars program was funded and owned by the mentor and investor community in the city in which it operated. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 17, 2024

After an intensive weekly program, eight innovative start-ups pitched their business models to a panel of judges, with three outstanding participants receiving top honors. Each Founder/CEO left the bootcamp with a polished business plan and the confidence to pitch their ideas to potential investors.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. Eight entrepreneurial teams presented their business startup ideas to a panel of judges, friends, family, and other community members for a chance to win $10,000 to launch their business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Assembled , which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million in a Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Emergence Capital and Basis Set Ventures.

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