This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.” It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are not yet ready to pitch an investor. Are pitch decks still necessary?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We now have incubators, accelorators, business plan competitions, and government backed seed programs, but it's not clear to me that this is where the pain is or where the impact is. One of the many frustrations of being a Met fan as I have said time and time again is that the Yankees get other team's closers to pitch the seventh inning.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

When we study real accounts of innovation, we find that critical moves are often preceded by long spells of reflection or incubation–which are absent from innovation models. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch. 2 for his age group at 12.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 28, 2011

Recently, I've done a fair bit of travelling and sat through a number of pitch events and competitions both in NYC and in other cities. This summer, in NYC alone, over 50 companies will be participating in various incubator programs. My fear isn't that they will fail or won't get funded after the summer. It's fine to fail.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs start out their business endeavors with an investment pitch. I’m all for that—and that’s why I teach entrepreneurship at Fordham, run educational programs through nextNY and support the incubator programs that provide startups with hands on mentoring. Step one: Ask for money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. As an early-stage startup, it’s downright nonsensical, and it shouldn’t be part of your pitch deck at all. TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale! Save 50% on an annual subscription here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? Yeah, I’d say problem solved, no? And if that doesn’t do it, then this is certainly the cherry on top.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You know you need a pitch deck to do this and so fire up your slide software of choice and crack your knuckles, ready to wow. I often see pitch decks positioning themselves as a Seed raise but realistically are at Pre-Seed.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You’ll expand your network, engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000! The weekly ZOOM sessions will be on Tuesdays, March 23, 2021 – June 2, 2021 / 2:00 – 5:00 P.M. This is a no-cost opportunity!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. Yeah, he was LA, baby! Almost none remain from that era. Quality endures.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

Register Standard Chartered Bank has joined forces with Singapore Management University’s Lien Centre to establish a Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator. The Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator , funded by a $300,000 contribution from the bank, aims to empower female entrepreneurs dedicated to creating a positive social impact.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Apply here.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 1, 2022

This program lets you engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts, and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000! You’ll also have the chance to pitch your business concept to a panel of local judges at the completion of the course with the winner taking home up to $10,000.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

Some of the top startup accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, maker spaces, investor groups, and founder support groups are located in San Francisco, making it the ideal location to visit. The meetings included co-working spaces, accelerators, investor groups, tech giants, University startup hubs, maker groups, and pitch events.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Maesa’s Beauty Incubator panel included Maesa CEO Piyush Jain who was joined by Chief Brand Officer Oshiya Savur and Chief Growth Officer Scott Kestenbaum, Hairitage Founder and CEO Mindy McKnight, Create & Cultivate Founder Jaclyn Johnson and Motivational Speaker and Writer Jodi-Ann Burey.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Dayna will talk about how, beyond the idea, founders can pitch investors on their TAM, including how they will wedge into the market and how they will eventually disrupt it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

“What if we created a research lab and business incubator that took these people with learning differences and put [them] together? We will continue to use the incubator space here at the lab and have Rick and Tom help us with the hard parts of running a business. We raised $250,000 from family, friends and investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. Pan-African funds Samurai Incubate and Consonance Investment led Norebase’s pre-seed round. The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

On a per resident, annualized bases, that's tops for any kind of co-working or incubation space in the city--but, unlike in similar setups, that's not even the goal of the space. Probably frequenting many of these buildings, helping companies, taking pitches, and being blown away by the creativity and inguinity of the folks that inhabit them.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Since Hopkins isn’t publicly known as a writer, she assumed that Jumpcut found her through a television network she had pitched a script to, but that wasn’t the case. So far, Jumpcut has hosted three incubator programs. “We said, ‘no, our algorithms found you.'”

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

Knowing who your target investors are and what they are looking for can help you tailor your pitch and increase your chances of getting funded. Develop a compelling pitch Your pitch should be clear, concise, and compelling, and demonstrate why your business is worth investing in.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

The following day, I delivered a four hour workshop on capital sources and pitch strategies for fifteen entrepreneurs in the Propel program. Topics of conversation included how to identify fundable companies, trends in funding, business plans, and pitching to investors. We had a lovely time in Northern Ireland.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

That led to the development of a startup incubator focused on Black founders and later a pitch competition. She says that there is a ready pipeline from her other ventures including the incubator and pitch competitions and she is also plugged into the community where there is lots of startup energy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

A quick tangent: If you’re not already familiar with CELA or what it does, the NYC-based company matches early-stage startups to world-class accelerators and incubators that align with a startup’s vertical and business goals.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. 2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. It feels like a tsunami of deal flow , and for me, I’ve outlined how I pay attention to inbound flow in terms of what gets priority.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

Her thesis entitled “Towards an Ecosystem Approach to the Strategy and Performance of Incubators” received two Best Dissertation in Management and Entrepreneurship Awards. She co-supervises a PhD thesis on “Incubator Sourcing and Performance: An Ecosystem Approach”. 2) If you’ve got a better idea for a project, pitch it! (3)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

This is in addition to the €350M WorldFund which Ecosia recently incubated and launched last year to back climate-focused startups. Further investment into renewable energy will be likely as Ecosia evaluates community energy projects and pitches from founders and these may take place in other countries,” a spokesperson told us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Mozilla launched Hubs in 2018, which it pitched at the time as an “experiment” in “immersive social experiences.” “Active Replica will continue to work with our existing customers, partners and community.”

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

You’ve got to pitch investors, target the right customer, hone your business model and raise critical funding just in time. The founder revised his pitch and business plan, and quickly raised $3 million. The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. Your team is lean, the margin of error narrow.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Dayna will talk about how, beyond the idea, founders can pitch investors on their TAM, including how they will wedge into the market and how they will eventually disrupt it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

It started out with six men at a famous restaurant in San Francisco hearing pitches over lunch. Founders can go it alone or partner with incubators and accelerators for almost every type of business. If you read eBoys or Done Deals or Creative Capital, you’ll get a sense of the early days of the venture industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The twosome changed tact in 2017, when DrugStoc was officially launched, to include distribution, after a year-long incubation at Stanford’s Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies. “I We decided we need to get a distribution license, and to do this the pharmaceutical way. “It’s

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

Practice your pitch, have them look over your business plan, and solicit their advice to so when you go into the lion’s den you’re as prepared as possible. . Find the Right Investors - don’t throw your pitch to just anybody. Be prepared for investors to ask the tough questions.

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