TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability — the “aha!” Data show that traditional marketing doesn’t work on developers, and it’s not because they’re impervious to a sales pitch. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

Consumer fintech trading revenues don’t measure up to SaaS ARR (April 2022). By that we mean that some software companies were valued like SaaS businesses, even though they weren’t. How to pitch me: 6 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2022 (April 2022).

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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. She’s written a guide for incoming CISOs that contains a framework for setting goals, creating action plans and, most importantly, documenting risk. Image Credits: Medcrypt (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” Carroll pitches Immuta as an “enterprise-scale” alternative to manual processes for creating and implementing data policies. The CDG reported in May that frameworks to address digital privacy at the state and local government level are only in the “nascent stages.” ” Image Credits: Immuta.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But if you are not already using it, chances are that you may be getting pitched a service using its technology, or will be soon. Unless you have been following the business of home broadband networking, you may not be familiar with the name Plume. We’re delighted to join and support this exciting journey.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

The 9 Disciplines of Great SaaS Companies remains one of the most popular posts on marketing on this blog. It’s a wonderful framework by Bill Macaitis, who was the CMO at Zendesk and Slack. The framework breaks down the key marketing operational roles into six buckets. The value of this framework is two-fold.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck. With that ethos in mind, Lucas Matney interviewed Pilot CEO Waseem Daher to deconstruct the pitch deck that helped his company land a $60M Series C round. ” Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck.

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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. B2B saas companies will likely include folks from sales and marketing. One cannot exist without the other in this framework. Anyone could pitch an idea to the executive team.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Fortunately, things have changed with the rise of SaaS and alternative funding sources such as revenue-based investing VCs. If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure. For a long time, “revenue” seemed to be a taboo word in the startup world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image Credits: Rittikrai_PIX (opens in a new window) / Getty Images In the final article of a five-part series , growth marketing expert Jonathan Martinez shares the key metrics he tracked at Coinbase and Uber, along with a framework for activating and retaining early adopters who drive revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you’ve been nurturing an idea for a company, put together a pitch deck and start reaching out now to investors: they will be more receptive than you think. Can AI turn out polite pitch rejection letters, automate aspects of due diligence, or draft accurate market maps? That’s no hot take. Samantha Lewis, principal, Mercury.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

In his latest TC+ post, Michael Perez, director of growth and data at VC firm M13, shares five questions he uses to devise pricing strategy frameworks , along with three value metrics and a detailed measurement plan for GTM strategy. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Most funds open data rooms to share previous reports, performance data, pitch decks, legal docs and other fundraising material with LPs. In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it. How to turn user data into your next pitch deck. How to turn user data into your next pitch deck. SaaS startups that ignored VC advice to cut sales and marketing were better off this year. Series A deck.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

But those figures don’t matter when you’re pitching: Investors expect to see a business plan that describes how you plan to reach profitability within 3-5 years. About 10% of startups will fail in their first year. Between years two through five, approximately 70% of companies will go under.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

To be effective, a startup’s pricing strategy must align with its marketing case studies, website messaging, PR releases and sales pitches. Contract Length: Many SaaS startups launch with monthly pricing which encourages customers to try the product and engenders demand. This is one framework. I’d love to hear them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When to build a freemium plan and how to get it right Image Credits: Jonathan Knowles (opens in a new window) / Getty Images SaaS pricing comes in three flavors: the classic sales-led model, free trials that eventually force users to make a decision, or freemium plans that hopefully deliver enough value to keep users coming back.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

Here’s why it’s important: Kamps’ new framework, and series of questions that you should be asking your first product, should make the complexities of MVPs a little more approachable. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck . The SaaS sell-off is steepening . Aka, my sweet spot (and my weakness). The iPod is dead.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. Shaan: Okay.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That’s what Slush organizers said after they and VC pitch judges decided to revoke a $1 million award to Immigram after discovering the company had ties to Russia. SaaS startups that incrementally improve will stack small wins that have the potential to alter the company’s trajectory. Mike has more.

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