Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I have my best creative break-throughs this way. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. If you struggle to find moments of creativity you might read that post. I also have huge creative spurts when I run. Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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Revolution

JANUARY 27, 2025

Reflections on Georgetowns 2025 pitch competition from TedLeonsis Last week, Georgetown Universitys McDonough School of Business once again became a launchpad for the next generation of bold thinkers and doers. At Revolution, Ive seen what backing entrepreneurs with big ideas can breed.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

NYU-Poly made a pitch to transform the former MTA headquarters into a "'Center for Urban Science and Progress,' where engineers can work to solve urban, global problems like traffic, pollution, and energy conservation." It's cheaper and it's attracting the young, creative class that drives our most innovative companies.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’ll be the first to back up the notion that diverse founders have just as much ambition, drive, intellectual horsepower, creativity—you name it—than anyone else.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

The creativity of all the students, the diversity of their business ideas, and the number of countries represented made GSEA the right choice for us.”. Costantini: “As adults, it’s our job to encourage self-starters and creative thinking in education. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. "Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. Gilt Groupe maintains a significant presence there, as does scores of creative agencies and design firms. It’s a great place to build a business--creative, less expensive, flexible, etc.

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JANUARY 6, 2013

Being able to innovate requires both intuition and creativity--combining a good sense of direction with enough spontaneity to be willing to lose your way long enough to move in a direction others haven't travelled before. Plus, if it takes too much time, just write shorter posts. Problem solved. What about hires?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For inspiration, check out my folder design gallery , created to help spark your creativity while featuring several styles, colors, and layouts for various industries. Keep these insights in mind as you design your next folder, and let me know how it impacts your sales pitches. Feature your logo here to entice prospects to look inside.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. Creative financing options for new businesses. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Fortunately, not all is lost. Startup competitions.

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JULY 8, 2013

Since there''s no way to both make yourself accessible and not get a fire hose of inbound, most of the pitches you''re going to have are from perfectly nice, smart people who have perfectly horrific, unworkable ideas. 2) People pitch you. Given enough time, technology and human creativity can solve just about every problem we have.

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MARCH 17, 2014

With one company, a founder and his super inspirational, creative, and established buddy hatch a plan to build a very strong content brand that serves as a platform for a lot of diverse revenue streams--events, ecommerce, advertising. The first pitch I got was from someone who didn''t intend on staying with the business as an employee.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Seems to me that anyone wanting to get into the pure content business or have a career in it needs to start thinking more creatively about what business goals of the stakeholders in their field are complimented by content. They've invited the startup community to come pitch them on what they can do to help CNN/Money innovate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. Of course he pitched me the entire ride down. Come to entrepreneur pitches. He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. I thought that was the end of it. Nice kid, but I see lots of nice kids. A year or so passed.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2012

This is part of the reason that automating minutiae, adopting rituals, and applying creativity only where it’s most valuable (e.g. I tried pitching business development ideas, coming up with marketing ploys. not deciding what to eat for breakfast) is so important to me.".

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AUGUST 22, 2012

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. That's the person who needs to own feature requirements, best practices on implantation, etc.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The new initiative includes a strategic partnership with the highly anticipated X-PITCH 2023, a global deeptech startup competition aimed at catalyzing the widespread adoption of cutting-edge technology across diverse industries. “We see immense potential in partnering with X-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. Although every student had their pitch honed to perfection, there is always the extra mile to explore deeper meaning.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Seems that in the absence of a pitch competition or some kind of immediately obvious venture investment opportunity, people aren't used to seeing VCs. It inspires me to think creatively about sectors and the behavior of both consumers and businesses. That's kind of odd, actually. It's all about networking building, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. Some final thoughts on PR.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

They pitched on a Wednesday. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Soleil at Chief Creative Officer. It’s not much different than having Dave Morin, Dick Costolo or Sheryl Sandberg sitting next to you at lunch. Turns out Punky was a childhood hero for Tasha.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. It’s remarkably rarely used in VC pitch decks, which I think is a tremendous shame. I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks.

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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. Words matter, and there isn't anyone out there who doesn't believe that creativity feeds off diversity of ideas, something we can all get behind. What areas are going to change?

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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 were resilient, creative, driven—and each time we were snubbed, it made us more determined to win the account. I was not the “obvious” choice to build and scale a company—but I did it anyway.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And as Web3 is now exploding into the creative class via things like NFTs, DAOs, gaming and more, we will only see NYC’s strengths come to the front and center in the most important new sector in tech. It’s a great time to be working in tech in NYC.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I met Rachel Renock a few months ago at a SheWorx pitch event. It reminded me of when I first heard the pitch for Kickstarter and then witnessed what it would become. It reminded me of when I first heard the pitch for Kickstarter and then witnessed what it would become. I got what she was doing right away.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

Constraints can spark creativity Of course it never feels this way when you’re the founder, but constraints can actually force creativity. Having one’s feet to the fire can be painful, it also can provide inspiration and creativity. Each person is the company has to personally do more vs. lead others doing work.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series , and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequently is that it’s easy to be a critic: What would we have done? So for this week’s pitch deck teardown, we’re going to try something different. At its heart, though, the deck was good.

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MARCH 14, 2024

You can check out the teaser on the Open Office Hours site and stay tuned for full interviews with Sakib Jamal, Jenny Fielding, Jerry Neuman, Lucy Deland, Joe Eagan, and Ben Sun to be posted in the nextNYC weekly newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You’ll pitch a new client by e-mail or you’ll ask people you’ve worked with to recommend you. A job could lack the potential for creativity you had hoped it would provide. This fear also never really made sense to me because, at some point, you will have to direct some non-zero amount of professional attention to yourself.

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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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