Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. When you pitched me I really did love you. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team? everything. You’re in control.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I have sat through countless pitches with Ivy League grads spewing off intellectual descriptions of the details of their product or service and why it will win in the market. In a VC pitch this type of messaging will do just fine. These messages need to pass the cocktail party pitch. And I think this is a mistake.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

Costantini: “As adults, it’s our job to encourage self-starters and creative thinking in education. As business owners, we constantly have new ideas for films we’d like to make–so we’re out there pitching, much like the GSEA competitors. We took notes during the competition to help improve our pitch!”.

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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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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 12, 2014

Educate the market by being the authority. And please, please, please don''t pitch VCs who blog to write about your company as if we were tech journalists. What do we tell about ourselves, to who, over time, and what is the goal--and when will we benefit from that goal. 2) Establish the team as experts on the problem you''re solving.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16! But then the truth sets in. This certainly isn’t anything conscious on my side. It’s just the facts. Even at 18. And truthfully he’s pretty impressive.

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APRIL 11, 2016

Over the weekend, Rent the Runway held an event for its Project Entrepreneur initiative, which brought together over 100 female entrepreneurs looking to get education and advice on how to take their businesses to the next step. Yes, straight white males are getting most of the funding, but they're also most of the pitches.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

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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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. There are a lot of reasons not to like the space that Publicstuff is in. That alone is enough to make a lot of VCs throw up a little in their mouths. Slow sales cycles.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Lots of companies struggle with getting the attention of a market, because they don''t take a lead in educating that market. It saves you the time of manually pitching the other 498 because those two will find you. Why are you paying to sponsor a conference or pitching other media outlets. So how did they get involved?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. Presenting at Meetings without Going Down a Rathole (this was written for VC pitches but many lessons apply). Assigns tasks. Assign away.

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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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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. To watch the pitches, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

If I had to put a number on it I’d say 1 in 20 pitches – maybe 1 in 30 – are by an entrepreneur who comes across as truly passionate about her project. One with a company that produces games and educational products for children that we will announce in the next few months. I have fallen in love twice recently.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. The tablet market has absolutely exploded.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

” Quddus Pativada, founder at DigestAI pitches as part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 18, 2022. Despite running an educational AI startup, Pativada isn’t currently in school. Image Credits: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

A $500,000 Opportunity, Presented by Wells Fargo One of the most anticipated features of the Forum is the $500K Capital Pitch Competition, presented by Wells Fargo, which is also the title sponsor of the entire event.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some entrepreneurs are born salespeople, others find it more awkward but ultimately realize getting comfortable pitching — to investors, to the team, to potential employees, and so on — is part of the job. With a bunch of education and corporate logos underneath. Hopefully every startup finds the right investors!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

The National Day Calendar honored Dave’s diligent work to educate the public about living organ donation by featuring Dave as the guest on Episode 1 of its National Day Podcast , which debuted on 10 April 2024. So, where will this streamlined effort to educate, inform, and inspire lead?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Contributed by Hao Lam, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Seattle, Washington, and founder and CEO of Best in Class Education. MyEO Education. The MyEO Education group is championed by Joyce Lasecke of EO Minnesota, with support and encouragement from Peter Fan of EO Dallas. MyEO Angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. I see emails from angel syndicates all the time for companies I hadn’t even given 2 seconds thought about investing and I get full info, pitch deck and info about the round size and timing. All of my partners at Upfront do.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

Innovation comes from those who are often less well educated (study the history of Hollywood, founded by “uneducated” Jews) or foreign born founding members (Google, Sun, Intel, PayPal) let alone reversed scientists like Einstein.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Last week, I covered the company’s $7 million seed funding round , and the company’s CEO, On Freund, was gracious enough to let me use the deck the company created to close that round for my Pitch Deck Teardown series. Oh, yeah, pitch decks and the tearing down thereof. Where were we?

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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

MARCH 17, 2023

If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to respond to these questions in such detail. There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. We’ll see. TechStars Interactions. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. You don’t get to know companies that way.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 17, 2024

After an intensive weekly program, eight innovative start-ups pitched their business models to a panel of judges, with three outstanding participants receiving top honors. Each Founder/CEO left the bootcamp with a polished business plan and the confidence to pitch their ideas to potential investors.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. PlayPrint , founded by Kevin Zhang and Syed Bokhari (Centre County): Offering innovative, eco-friendly alternatives to children’s toys, PlayPrint focuses on creativity, educational value, and sustainability.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. EO offers great opportunity, education and tools to facilitate this, and create Instimacy (=instant intimacy) in business conversations. . and see how your company compares. Seek existing middleware tools. Senior leaders are sales superstars.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We educate and train and test for a set of skills designed to succeed in 1950. Truly, in many ways, my concern was the inverse of normal business pitches. We need leaders who know how to accomplish feats through teamwork and collaboration. We need people who have emotional intelligence as well as actual fact-based knowledge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

I quickly realized after joining a Forum that EO wasn’t just there to help you get rich but to support the complete entrepreneur, from wealth creation to emotional support, community, and education. My Forum members helped me get through the dot-com crash when my publicly traded company collapsed, and I had to start all over again.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Dennis and Naveen had pitched just about every investor you could think of and came up with a whopping zero term sheets. Since then, they''ve been #1 on the app store in education in over 120 countries. Not exactly what you call a "hot deal". Not hot at all. It didn''t get hot until it launched nine months later.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Tensions between educators and NYC officials grew over the past few weeks, as school openings were delayed twice and staffing shortages continue. The startups all have different versions of the same pitch: they can offer teachers more money, and flexibility, than the status quo. Honestly, I have no confidence in the city,” she says.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

I find this fascinating and was excited to go through the company’s pitch deck to learn more. 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 Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck So, who needs this anyway?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 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. . In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Supliful could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck! Let’s dive right in. Slides in this deck.

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