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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. What do people often misunderstand about pitch training? For those with a bit more experience, pitching is about a set of slides to achieve a certain goal, mostly funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

In the past I’ve given some tips for handling meetings effectively, covering topics like: - How not to let your meeting go down a rat hole ; - Dealing with the elephant in the room ; - Dealing with skeletons in your closet ; - How to make meetings discussions, not “pitches&#. - But you enabled them. Yes, it’s rude.

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APRIL 21, 2013

These folks were literally pitching my team, and because I didn''t necessarily want to do the same thing as they did, I didn''t care much to spend time with them. And that''s not to say that the only reason anyone should network with somebody is because of money--but the reality is that access to capital is an enabler.

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MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series , and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequently is that it’s easy to be a critic: What would we have done? So for this week’s pitch deck teardown, we’re going to try something different. At its heart, though, the deck was good.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The 3rd Annual Startup302 competition, Delaware’s premier funding contest for technology and tech-enabled startups led by underrepresented founders, is holding its finals tomorrow, April 27th. The Pitching event is being held at Theatre N, Nemours Building, 1007 Orange St.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

Experimentation enables you to transform a promising idea into a workable solution that addresses a real need. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch. But instead of pitching his business idea, Hassabis engaged Thiel on the subject of chess, asking him why he thought it was such an amazing game.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

April 2 is the inaugural TC Early Stage Pitch-Off featuring 10 exceptional early-stage startups. The Pitch-Off is split into two segments. For the semifinals, each company will pitch for five minutes followed by a Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Tune in on April 2 to watch TC’s first Early Stage Pitch-Off event.

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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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AUGUST 13, 2012

There are a few "app builders" out there for mobile, enabling anyone to create a basic content driven mobile application without touching code. Will enough libraries and other modules get developed to enable development to move to a fully accessible, graphical interface--just like publishing tools for content?

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JULY 17, 2014

It is a small piece of hardware that syncs up with your phone, freeing it from the carrier network and enabling point to point communication. These situations--the lack of coverage in emergencies, the need for privacy, and the ability to offload point to point communications--make goTenna a pretty handy device to have around. million.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

When your employee base is over a hundred people--the situation that companies like ZocDoc and Appnexus are in--your ability to succeed as a company is directly tied to finding people who enable you to scale. I had lunch with Cyrus, the founder of ZocDoc, the other day. They get starting outfielders to platoon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

But the rules are different in startup-land: although there are basic best practices for putting together a pitch deck or term sheet, there are no hard rules for approaching potential investors. We are following the effects of web3 or blockchain-enabled technology across each of these verticals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

When I’m invited to participate in a round of pitching to potential investors, it’s more often than not part of a company’s marketing strategy around proving to the world that they care about equity for women. Taking care of my own mental health enables me to reset, regroup and refresh my resolve.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Their goal is to be a brand that parents and teachers trust to produce high-quality, fun, and inspiring mobile products that enable learning and encourage kids to explore the world around them. 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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

” Leveraging the Venmo platform’s search and profile pictures features, he set out to find the investors he was looking for, and he claims this enables him to “gain their attention in a way that doesn’t feel intrusive.” donations with a bunch of random pitches for startups?

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The role of a customer experience person is simple: understand my customer and satisfy them by creating easy to use products that enable them to accomplish their goals. Therefore, it makes sense that all of these functions in the process--marketing, design, and product management--fit under one roof: “Customer experience.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. They know how to build pitch decks. International money. They have blackbelts in Powerpoint.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

In a statement, LiquidStack said its technology could enable at least 21 times more heat rejection per IT rack compared to air cooling — all without the need for water. Data is the world’s most valuable (and vulnerable) resource.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. This enables L’Oréal to identify and utilize the best user-generated videos for the company’s marketing purposes. Watch Vyrill’s pitch-off presentation here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

We’re thrilled this new funding will enable us to continue to define this evolving industry and to help even more patients get the care they deserve.”. Having read all of this, I was curious to see how a company tells the above story in the form of a pitch deck to investors. And, in the U.S.,

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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. Through expert-led weekly group sessions and personalized mentorship, participants refine their business models, financial strategies, and presentation skills, culminating in a compelling pitch presentation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

I had a few VC friends who immediately saw the parallel but others were scratching their heads saying, “How is a physical storage company – even if you pitch it as “cloud” – really a tech company?” ” Let’s start with some basics. But can you really tell me MakeSpace is a tech company?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

With a rigorous selection process, only the most promising tech-enabled companies get the chance to pitch. Three pitching events happen on the first day of the Conference: Seed Stage, Early Stage, and Growth Stage companies. The Seed Stage Pitch competition winner will be awarded a $500,000 investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. They know how to build pitch decks. International money. They have blackbelts in Powerpoint.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

The inaugural competition will culminate with finalists doing a live pitch at its upcoming Conference. The company seeks the latest application innovations underway using identity, privacy, and security-enabled workflows. Okta’s platform helps startups develop identity-enabled applications.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

This pitch throw-down is all about startups determined to power a more equitable, inclusive and healthy world, and we need more of that visionary thinking put into action. You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Enabling Tech: Dot Inc. , The competition just to reach the finals was fierce.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Identifying blocks and obstacles along the way enables you to identify the means to get around them, break them or turn them to your advantage so that you can achieve your final close. His book enables readers to learn their Negotiation I.Q. PITCH ANYTHING: AN INNOVATIVE METHOD FOR PRESENTING, PERSUADING, AND WINNING THE DEAL.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Thus Table and Desk was born?a

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” If you’re in the minority that never read them – you should. Use that as a source of competition.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A common culminating event in most accelerators, demo day is an event where founders pitch to a room to investors, angels, and journalists with the hope of raising a round and landing some coverage. The truth is, you don’t raise a round based on a 5-minute, highly scripted, polished and practiced on-stage pitch,” Feinzaig continued.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. They learn how to assess startups’ products, management, market opportunities and business models; how to perform due diligence, evaluate an investment pitch, and make informed investment decisions.

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