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Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Take a Test Drive When you create the list of potential VCs to approach make sure you have a few “back up schools” in your mix and test some of those as your earliest pitches. You should also pitch your existing investors and ask them to react as though they’re outsiders. One very effective way is to use your broader team.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table

TechCrunch

The technological advances we’ve made over the last few thousand years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. Even so, investors are backing startups bringing robotics, data management, automation and augmented reality into the construction process. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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Eight Ben Franklin TechCelerator Finalists Chosen from Erie, Pennsylvania!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

At the end of the program, they’ll pitch their business concepts to a panel of judges for a chance to take home up to $15,000 to officially launch their idea. The eight entrepreneurial teams chosen for the 2024 Erie program represent an exciting mix of products & ideas: Premier Manufacturing – d.b.a

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part V, featuring Ethan Kurzweil, Lily Lyman, Ashley Mayer, and Leshika Samarasinghe.

Hunter Walk

There are many ways to make (and lose) money in this asset class, to construct a portfolio, to source and win investments, and to help (or not) founders build companies. To the outside, all VC firms pitch founders on essentially the same product—there’s a range of check and fund sizes, wrapped in some kind of marketing.

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Brand journalism: What is it and what can it do for your brand?

The Zapier Blog

It follows forms of journalism through use of third-party interviews and external expert analysis, researched or reported news, and feature stories. Assume that when I use "brand journalism" below, I'm talking about both forms unless I say otherwise.) Companies use brand journalism to get their presence into that mix.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact”. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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