This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.” Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. break the silos!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. It might take you six months to get to know an investor well, so don’t expect a check on the first pitch. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

What is your pitch to employers to tell them to come to Solano County? And so, our pitch is, imagine that you had a place like West Village in New York or Georgetown in DC, or Noe Valley or the Marina in San Francisco. Jan: So, we have a lot of employers in the room, I think, in the Bay Area and in New York and DC.

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