TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. 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. Sesie Bonsi.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Validate the Startup Idea When starting a business the following preliminary steps will help validate the startup idea and the associated business model. There are two types of startups: replicative and innovative. Most technologies require an investment that may add significantly to startup costs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Now, serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg — who has founded a number of venture-backed startups — is taking the wraps off another live-streaming platform and marketplace. It’s a compelling proposition, even while other startup founders are also chasing after it. The benefits are resonating, according to Goldberg.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event, which showcased the firm’s portfolio of 21 companies, combined panel discussions, workshops, and pitching sessions, which were organized around four key themes: life tech, community economy, supply chain transformation, and breakthrough vision.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

It all begins with an idea and where there is an idea, eventually there is a pitch deck. It is a common misconception that once you have a pitch deck, it is simply a matter of getting a few meetings and then the funding you’re seeking begins to come your way.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool. Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

As building in public continues to gain popularity with early-stage startup founders, Murmur, coming out of stealth today, wants to leverage that natural transparency to a louder frequency. Founded by Aaron Dignan , Murmur helps startups create work agreements based on the policies of other startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Now, Lok is bringing his expertise and passion to the forefront with Awesome Ventures, aiming to provide invaluable support and resources to startup founders during the critical early stages of their companies. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tobias Liebsch , Co-Founder, Fintalent.io Lead With Data for Investment Traction As a startup founder seeking investment, one major challenge I’ve faced is effectively communicating our vision and potential for scalability to prospective investors with limited time. Investors appreciate specifics over vagaries.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Geared toward social impact startups working to create a healthier and more sustainable future, the accelerator provides access to training, products and technical support. Congratulations!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With new technology enabling better, faster and easier-to-use software to build better, faster and easier-to-use products, the market is becoming busier by the second. Those are three powerful things that not all startup founders are thinking about, but they really should be. So how do you stand out from the crowd?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 21, 2021

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. i2E concluded the latest virtual e3 cohort featuring five new startups from across the state. #withOklahomaStartups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. Upadhyay : Yeah, I think dealing with foreign investors adds to the stress of African founders. The second thing they can do is create an environment enabling individuals to look after their well-being.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. This past month, i2E concluded the latest virtual e3 cohort featuring six new startups from across the state.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. This past month, i2E concluded the latest virtual e3 cohort featuring six new startups from across the state.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. Ycombinator brings in the most successful startup founders to share their experiences building startups. There were no billion dollar unicorn startups. Many investors passed on that too.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

Each time, I’m impressed by the intelligence, ambition and the polish of the founders presenting companies only a few weeks or months old. At each Demo Day, the YC team provides investors a list of all the companies pitching and I’ve kept a few. In 2012, there were 5 PaaS companies while in 2014, I counted 2.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Al Lijee , CEO, TowGator Invite Critiques with Reverse Pitching A unique approach I’ve found effective in determining the viability of a new business idea is what I call “reverse pitching.” It revolves around steering clear of the allure of feature-centric thinking when validating a startup idea.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2013

But it isn’t easy to hire an executive of any sort (CEO, VP Marketing, VP of Sales, etc) because the executive hiring process is radically different from every previous hire in the startup’s life. Hiring the right team and enabling that team to be more productive will grow the business faster. It’s the first hire that requires trust.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Geared toward social impact startups working to create a healthier and more sustainable future, the accelerator provides access to training, products and technical support. Congratulations! The J.M.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Waste4Change is one of the companies that wants to help by increasing rates of recycling and enabling better waste management. The startup, which currently manages more than 8,000 tons of waste every year, announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding, co-led by AC Ventures and PT Barito Mitra Investama.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Adora Cheung [02:13] – Most of these people, before Meesho existed, did they even have a business or most of them you have enabled them to even have a business in the first place? When we started off, we were just enabling existing guys who were doing this, because we saw this behavior. Now, you can offer a better variety.

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Y Combinator

JULY 7, 2022

They flipped the equation of a typical startup founder: instead of raising money to enable a certain amount of growth, they eliminated the assumption of fundraising, controlled their spend, and evaluated how to ramp up spending based on what the business was bringing in. 44:10 - Wade, how has hiring changed since the pandemic?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We’re a tech-enabled service. Seema : I feel like a lot of companies in your shoes, the service or the software being provided or sort of the product being provided seems seamless and fully tech-enabled to the customer. And the first thing we did is we called up startup founders in our network. Waseem: Absolutely.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. Koh urges startup founders to “put on their big person pants and git gud at it”, emphasising the need for them to showcase their abilities and dedication to their business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Outsiders study multiple facets of a startup to determine its value and quality, and codebase health is one of them. A pitch deck is just part of the story, writes Matt Van Itallie, founder and CEO of codebase analytics company Sema. “Enable it on every account that you have.” Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 1. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 2. TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 3. Yes, Chief.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Seriously though, were there things you saw as a founder – or an angel investor in other people’s companies – that informed your own approach to venture now? Michael Mignano: Throughout my time building Anchor, I met and pitched many, many VCs. Do you remember what I told you? Was I right?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield presented by Capital Connect by J.P. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. How can you as a startup founder build an A-team without a budget of a large corporation?

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This tactic enables us to quickly adapt to changes, deliver high-quality products, and maintain a customer-centric focus. Get people working together and provide the tools, like WhatsApp, Google Chat, or Slack, to enable that on a day-to-day basis. You can talk the talk, but you need to walk the walk. The result?

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