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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We thought GSEA would be an excellent framework for exploring another generation of students whose brilliant ideas could become big business.”. We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. We know the rules, so you don’t have to spend time talking to lawyers and getting documents — we simplify all that.” The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. “Here’s how you upload a document. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch. DO NOT make it a features & functions presentation. Unfortunately most people do.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? Ultra-sensitive information Documents under attorney/client privilege shouldn’t be included in your VDR.

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14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Treat it like an open document: In an early phase, I recommend reviewing the document monthly and changing it if necessary, then every quarter in line with the team’s short-term objectives and new market insights. Your day-to-day strategic decisions and your sales pitch are two very different things. Just not too often.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study

TechCrunch

Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. She’s written a guide for incoming CISOs that contains a framework for setting goals, creating action plans and, most importantly, documenting risk. Image Credits: Medcrypt (opens in a new window).

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