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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. What ever happened to “build it”?

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JANUARY 17, 2012

I am ecstatic to announce the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --my new seed investment fund. It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. By some estimates, 50-60% of New York’s startup community lives in Brooklyn--and at Etsy it’s as high as 80%.

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. There is no fork.

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JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. Venture Capital & Technology'

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

A little over a year ago, I joined First Round Capital as an EIR -- with the goal of helping First Round root deeper into the community here after having already done almost a dozen deals, mostly out of their Philly office. Lots of firms have offices—that doesn’t mean they’re really in the middle of the community.

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APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

However, here's a question that I think even casual observers of the NYC innovation community would all answer unanimously: If you were to place a school in a strategic location to help drive innovation in NYC over the next 50 years, where would you put it? Roosevelt Island or Downtown Brooklyn?

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APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Are Pitch Decks becoming obsolete? was starting.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

She was the dominant figure in my family and was both an entrepreneur and a community leader. My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role. Even at 18.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A number of individuals also participated, including partners from First Round Capital and Wilson Sonsini, Wiley and Allison Cerilli, David Rose, Tom Wisniewski, Chad Stoller, and Ramesh Haridas, among others. 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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APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. Now that I''m gathering capital, that seems to have been a missed opportunity. You see, people doing interesting stuff often need capital to make that stuff sustainable.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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. Sutton, an entrepreneur, is a Board Member of YPO, a global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives, and the Nevada Policy Research Institute.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What we did: Rise of the Rest Managing Partner, David Hall , joined Cofounders Capital Managing Partner, Tim McLoughlin, onstage at the Network for Entrepreneurs, Wilmington’s community event. Catch insights from Steve and a recap of the pitch competition. Where we went: Detroit, MI? Where we went: New York, New York?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Vet your deck with them… let them see how you’re pitching the company. It probably even pays to get all of them in a room to pitch practice and get feedback on your value prop to a partner. Then, once you’ve nailed the pitch, get them to go to work on your pipeline. We want to participate in communication , not push.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs start out their business endeavors with an investment pitch. That’s what makes venture capital such a risky investment. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Step one: Ask for money. Help doesn’t necessarily mean an angel round sized check.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. RRM=Draft a response for me.

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APRIL 23, 2012

There are several key problems to this knowledge sharing little community we've built: People make themselves look better in hindsight. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. On average, it's probably nonsensical.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story". Venture capital isn't a game or club any more than any other industry is. They're all succeeding on their own terms--and they got there by building great relationships and participating in the professional communities around them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a community of entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs everywhere. Margee Moore of BigOrange Marketing shared that, “The community of peers is so very helpful. At EO, we celebrate and support entrepreneurs on World Entrepreneurs’ Day—and every day! It helps you realize you are not alone.”

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Owen Davis, the fund manager, didn’t get the return we were hoping for when we pitched and we had eventually closed up shop. His decision to support us, on the other hand, paid NYC’s technical community back in a way that will be felt years to come.

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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. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Community isn’t a single Slack group or event or newsletter. Despite this nebulous, disconnected reality, companies are paying more attention to various channels as remote work and digital communication powers our days. who is building the best community in edtech right now? — natasha (@nmasc_) February 16, 2021.

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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. you know they have other reasons to meet with people besides pitching your product. That makes their role in the community more authentic. That makes their role in the community more authentic.

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MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. Blog to your community. Blog on that topic.

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JUNE 8, 2011

I've been very lucky over the last six years of being involved in the NYC innovation community to meet some fantastic folks. Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I was speaking at Internet Week yesterday on networking and so I wanted to gather some of my thoughts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. Do you find expression “the sky’s the limit” well, limiting?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. They were playing small clubs to the gay community (her early ardent fans or “first 50”) and they were getting a warm reception so they wanted to double down on this community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network. Samer is an entrepreneur in adventure mode, helping companies explore new technologies, communities and stories.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

The point is, someone building a career in venture capital that doesn't include prior entrepreneurial success probably doesn't look like they have much to offer in the beginning. Facing live pitching is a new thing, but that's no excuse for not having an approach to hitting and studying up to face this particular pitcher.

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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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JULY 1, 2013

I''m going to rededicate myself to being even more responsive to founders--coming to decisions right there in the first pitch when I know it''s a no. This current indecisiveness in our investor community is leading to party rounds, lower quality syndicates, and lots of founder time wasted. Venture Capital & Technology'

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

If we want a technology solution on a limited budget with a given constraint, why not engage the tech/startup community for solutions? Then, we’ll give a bunch of teams two weeks to propose real solutions in a kind of pitch contest. Seems to me that if this is an informational problem, technology should be able to solve this.

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JULY 30, 2012

Drop by AngelList, where startups have been vetted by a community of advisors and other investors. Are you waiting for them to pitch you? Need an even more Seamless-like experience? This somewhat mimics real life, where many investors won't take a meeting with you unless they come through their "trusted network".

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