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Presenting the Perfect Pitch Deck that Secures Startup Investment

American Entrepreneurship

” Andreese n provides insight into how an entrepreneur pitching for funding should approach investors. The entrepreneur who is seeking funding from investors like Andreessen needs to present a pitch deck that includes those critical elements revealed by Andreesen. The keyword is compelling.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

” The ultimate measure of success for a journalist is viewership so if nobody cares about your shitty little company and the story you’re trying to pitch then the journalist doesn’t want to publish. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.”

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

Both Sides of the Table

I know all of this because every VC knows this because we’ve all either funded companies that have marketing technology or we’ve seen a pitch with a company that does this. Your pitch deck should really be your best marketing tool Your pitch deck shouldn’t contain your deepest, darkest secrets and plans.

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FabuLingua wins the TechCrunch City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off!

TechCrunch

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow. Two other companies presented in the Austin pitch-off.

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Why I’m excited about First Round’s investment in Salescrunch

This is going to be BIG.

First of all, their CrunchConnect product will make your pitches a lot easier, by not forcing your clients to download plugins to do over the web presentations. The process is extremely insightful—not only to hear how your team is pitching, but to hear, first hand, customer objections as well. So what does Salescrunch do?

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10 Misperceptions About Venture Capital

This is going to be BIG.

In large part, that is a result of who pitches to VCs, not surprisingly. 4) You get one shot at pitching. Too many times I hear pitches that include “And we haven’t even spent any money on marketing yet” as if money was this magic dust that makes everyone want to download your app.