This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Telling your story isn't just about conveying information about your company--it's about giving someone a framework that makes them feel like they know how to be successful as well. AND NOW I'LL PRETEND THAT I WASN'T REALLY PITCHING AND I'LL BE ALL MODEST ABOUT IT. Otherwise, who cares? The audience will relate to you better.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

With a thirst for learning and a willingness to share lessons learned and insider experiences, EO members published 47 informative posts on EO’s Inc.com channel in 2023. 1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” Goal-setting tends to improve with time and practice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. If the questions aren’t organically flowing you have “pocket slides” after the main deck you can pull out to share more information or analysis. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. In today’s world without our solution they have to enter this information in 3 separate places, which is both time-consuming and leads to errors. Find great presenters and have them hear your pitch.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For example, Mitre Att&ck framework for classifying threats and alerts (If it’s a SaaS offering) SOC2 certification There are many other certifications such as Common Criteria that provide assurance your product meets minimum requirements. This means you must clearly present the information needed to understand the cost of deployment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. Accountability should not be about micromanagement; it’s about empowering individuals to take ownership and make informed decisions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

If there’s one thing every early founder needs it’s information, and you’ll find it in abundance at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. We’re talking everything from legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. I recommend going to Early Stage.

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David Teten VC

MAY 26, 2021

The obvious solution is to get in touch with your friends who have earlier raised or pitched to the family offices. A question is a request for information, e.g., “When did the first COVID-19 deaths occur in the USA and South Korea?” A Framework for Venture Capital Fund Law. Answer: the same date.)

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? Don’t overshare irrelevant corporate information. key in vivo data results).

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Look for a group that connects angel investors with promising early-stage companies and that provides the education and information for both groups to lead to a healthy pipeline of deal flow. Some thousands of pitch decks later, he looks for the following key questions and points to be addressed in founder pitch decks: Who is your customer?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 14, 2020

If you want to expand your network, engage with serial entrepreneurs, participate in discussions with experts in marketing, sales and finance to help shape your business and develop a pitch presentation, then you’ll want to register for Ben Franklin’s Fall 2020 TechCelerator – To Apply: [link]. Your only cost is your time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Engineers, developers and product managers rely on that flow of information, but it’s typically delivered either via legacy email tools, or through notification systems built into product management dashboards that devs have to hand-code themselves. ” An example of MagicBell’s Notification inbox.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

EO’s Most Engaging Posts on Inc.com for 2023 With a thirst for learning and a willingness to share lessons learned and insider experiences, EO members published 47 informative posts on EO’s Inc.com channel in 2023. 1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Datanomik’s goal is to connect financial institutions across LatAm through its B2B open finance API, which gathers a company’s banking information on one platform, Strauss told TechCrunch. Datanomik co-founders Sergio Fogel and Gonzalo Strauss. Image Credits: Datanomik.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Their pitch, which helped the company raise $32 million in a Series A, has led to an additional $8 million in oversubscribed funding led by Leonardo S.p.A, Plus, like other planes built from emerging technologies, there isn’t a full certification framework already established for the vehicle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Syneroid’s $500K seed deck. ” After raising a $500,000 seed round, the company’s founders shared their 12-slide pitch deck with TechCrunch for a review. According to Haje Jan Kamps , “no information has been redacted or omitted.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 9, 2023

One way to do this is by using the Problem Hypothesis framework. You want to allow your customers to tell you about their experiences and challenges rather than trying to pitch them a solution. Embrace bad news: Even if the information is unpleasant, you gain solid insights that bring you closer to the truth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to fix a lack of leadership: A clear communication architecture with team meetings, daily standups, and ad-hoc meetings is vital to motivating, informing, and leading the team. Your day-to-day strategic decisions and your sales pitch are two very different things. Set clear, achievable goals together with the team. The others die.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

So they take their idea and pitch it to some local VC firms. As important as this decision is, founders often don’t have a good framework for making it. Here is the framework I recommend. There is now much more information available for founders. It has just two rules 1. Fortunately, things have gotten better.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

Matthew Craig-Greene of consultancy MJ Hudson points out, “Most public plans publish meeting minutes, and these can be a very interesting place to find information on manager selection. Cambria Capita: Know Your Edge As A VC, Part One: Informational Edge. Sapphire Ventures’ Top 10 tips for pitching an LP .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

. “I quickly realized the power of data and the ways that governing large amounts of critical information can better streamline operations of all kinds,” he added. ” Carroll pitches Immuta as an “enterprise-scale” alternative to manual processes for creating and implementing data policies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. I’m used to working under pressure, but taking a job as a chief information security officer sounds extraordinarily stressful: People are far more likely to learn about your failures than your successes.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions. Although the exemptions remain complex, the changes provide incremental improvement to the existing framework. Almost all of the new rules should become effective early next year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A structured approach offers clear advantages: Several people do interviews, and this information must be brought together. To build a thriving organization, information needs to be shared. You want to allow your customers to tell you about their experiences and challenges rather than trying to pitch them a solution.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Their main role in the Dream Team framework is to set a clear and compelling strategy, drive alignment, and liberally share context. People: Informed Captain The informed captain is the designated team leader. The most critical thing an informed captain does is to make sure the team is solving the right problem for the customer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this article aimed at early-stage founders, Kolluri shares a detailed framework with timelines that can help determine whether it’s time to look for a buyer or keep reaching for the stars. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” Predibase is built on top of open source technologies including Horovod, a framework for AI model training, and Ludwig, a suite of machine learning tools. ” The pitch sufficiently impressed angels like Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom and former Intel AI COO Remi El-Ouazzane, both of whom invested. healthcare company.”

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise. Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The startup’s wider pitch and “social mission” is to use (first party) household finance data and (third party) vendor data to build models that can progressively automate the management of essential service switching and/or contact renegotiating to offer a sort of household savings-as-a-(subscription)-service.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. However this framework applies to really any major strategic decision in marketing.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

Mirroring the entrepreneur training, SDAC provides investor training through an enhanced pitch competition run over a three-month series of events that culminate in a one-day conference, where a winner is awarded funds raised by the investors. in over 50 deals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). More than 90% of collected imagery isn’t actually reviewed, resulting in critical information and threats being missed.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. I use Feedly to track information about the companies and industries I am tracking, and share that information internally. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate . 11) Exit .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Ideally, BI transforms raw data into actionable information, but according to Charles Caldwell, VP of product management at Logi Analytics, “a gap exists between the functionalities provided by current BI and data discovery tools and what users want and need.” It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools.

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