information mix-use pitching 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 14, 2013
Will I have information that other journalists don’t have (otherwise known as a “scoop”)? ” The ultimate measure of success for a journalist is viewership so if nobody cares about your shitty little company and the story you’re trying to pitch then the journalist doesn’t want to publish.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 22, 2014
I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. The author followed an Uber driver around and used it as evidence of why Uber drivers hate the service. I was at the first pitch meeting they ever did to raise capital.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2023
We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Smalls could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck! How does it know that it can continue growing?
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 3, 2019
We do the work of sorting through the pitch decks of everyone and their mother, finding the diamonds in the rough, helping them turn an idea into something that looks like a company—and we do it for a fraction of the management fees of our later stage counterparts. That creates a tradeoff of paying up for more information.
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