Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

I would never as a VC fund a round and then expect somebody else to pay a higher price right after me. I also would never expect another VC to do that to me. The second way is to pitch them like normal but offer them a discount. The pitch is really simple: “We’re going to be raising $750,000 – $1 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I want to make sure that my sixth year as a VC doesn’t just become an automatic continuation of what I’ve done in my first 5 years. This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc. Board Meetings. Conferences. Startups Are for Doers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The Future is Uncertain, Your Pitch Deck (and Profitability) Can’t be On the off chance you need to be reminded, factors that can make or break your business are unpredictable, and 2020 has reminded us in no uncertain terms how quickly market opportunities, customer demands, and institutions can change irrevocably at a moment’s notice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. This is true whether your at a sales meeting or at a VC firm. This happens often is sales meetings or VC meetings. As both an entrepreneur (in VC and sales meetings) and as a VC I’ve seen this happen many times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

And yes, VC’s, too. You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents. Negotiate directly with your VC or acquirer with lawyers present in the room.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow.

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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. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. . The majority of early-stage VC deals fall apart in due diligence. Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors. It seems like a very good idea. But is its deck any good?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I’m an investor at Supernode Global , an early-stage VC fund based in London.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. The continent is also home to more than 1.2 “From telling us to set up takes days.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? It is all possible, but patience is key.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Additionally, we standardized the “allowance rates&# for services such as document storage, maximum numbers of users and we created more standardized packages of features that constituted an “up-sell&# to a our premium offerings. The problem is that we started with an SLA that was too favorable to us.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Each respondent was kind enough to let us know how they want to be pitched, and for grins, one shared an example of a cold e-mail that worked,” she writes. 10 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

I spend a good deal of time sharing deal flow up and downstream with Series A and B investors, and when they ask me about opportunities coming down the pipeline in 6-12 months, I usually share what I’ve been told from the founders themselves over email or phone — I become their subtle pitch man.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. When VCs raise capital from LPs, that money does not just sit in a bank collecting interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? I recently wrote a post on how to get access to VCs and angels where I outlined why lawyers are such an important tool for VC introductions. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling. When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week, Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. Mission slide.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that help founders control the narrative. Investors who have an entrepreneurial background possess unique insights into the fundraising process, so we have two posts by Gaetano Crupi, a partner at VC firm Prime Movers Lab. Pitch Deck Teardown: Helu.io’s $9.8M Series A deck.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 The cash will be used to build out the platform designed to give startups access to more than 500 VCs, accelerators and angel networks. and multiple family offices.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

While it might sound strange getting your brother-in-law to sign a contract, a legal document is a great way to establish expectations for both parties. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Angel investing and venture capital (VC). Crowdfunding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed. Let’s explore.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Startups and VC Three former managing directors at Amex Ventures went out on their own to start Vesey Ventures, and now they have closed on their debut fund with $78 million in capital commitments to back early-stage fintech startups. Don’t worry, this is a Primo tool : Also by Romain , French startup Primo raised $3.4 Catherine has more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It’s a story common to all sectors today: investors only want to see ‘uppy-righty’ charts in a pitch. Going international later in the journey or when more funding is available, possibly due to a VC round, seems to make facets of expansion more feasible. More posts by this contributor. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Startups and VC Imitating the real data : Singapore-based Betterdata took in $1.55 If you’re doing one of those “learn one new term a day,” here’s your education for the day: TLA+ is a formal “spec” language, developed by computer scientist and mathematician Leslie Lamport, for designing, modeling, documenting and verifying software programs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Mentors are immensely helpful, but they’re not a requirement: We run articles regularly that explain how to create pitch decks and reach out to investors. Most of them are so open to pitches, they’ve provided their contact information below. Tell us how you’d like to be approached by a founder with their initial pitch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

I work with a bunch of founders who have incredible stories, great pitch decks and solid businesses — and they get confused when investors turn them down anyway. An investment thesis is sometimes a detailed document, sometimes a deck and sometimes something as vague as “we know it when we see it.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. So it should be no surprise that “yes” doesn’t come easily.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Lore was Walmart’s e-commerce chief until January. Use cloud foam to dollar sign.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s no wonder — the VC firm Sequoia not long ago predicted that generative AI, which comprises AI that can generate text, art and more from prompts, could yield trillions of dollars in economic value over the long run. It’s a strong sales pitch. Generative AI is the tech industry’s buzzword of the moment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Next, a few favorite excerpts from the chat, starting with Kunst’s notes on how to make a killer pitch deck. Where to pitch Cleo Capital. Y Combinator’s documents hub. How to make a great pitch deck. And I say that on behalf of every other VC and angel in the world. Stripe Atlas. Don’t be ugly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In his spare time, he pitched competitions and accelerators. It’s a VC firm, and their mission is to make great investments,” Soffio said. He described his neighborhood as primarily immigrant and said there was always an underlying fear and anxiousness about having proper documentation. “I

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

In any case, it’s a reasonably compelling sales pitch. Image Credits: Lasso The Lasso platform can be used, for instance, to scrape an email for a sales prospect, look through a prospecting tool and save the summarized results to a document. Only time will tell. In 2020, backers poured $296.4

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Edda was founded initially as Kushim VC back in 2017 , but the company has just completed its official rebranded to Edda, while it has also announced $5.8 So Edda already has some competition beyond dusty-old spreadsheets, but what it’s pitching is an all-singing, all-dancing tool covering all bases. Investors invest.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Her answer? ‘I

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you ask Perttu Ojansuu, the answer is an intranet, or a company-specific, digital portal that centralizes much of a businesses’ software and documentation in one place. Beyond this, the service — which integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — offers a place to host shared files and documents.

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