TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. Who will you be pitching to? The pitch-off will consist of three startup companies presenting for four seconds on the virtual stage, in front of the entire TC Sessions audience and our expert panel of judges.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 19, 2021

The elevator pitch as we know it today comes from Hollywood. An aspiring screenwriter would corner an unsuspecting executive in an elevator and pitch his/her concept during the time it took to go one floor. If the executive liked the pitch they would stay on until their floor. That’s not an elevator pitch. Where to begin?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The following article was written by Glen Carlson , co-founder of the Key Person of Influence Business Accelerator, for the March 2016 edition of Octane magazine : Consider the three types of branding you can develop as a business owner: a company brand, a product brand and a personal brand. is about taking that pitch and scaling it.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

I'm sorry that I missed yesterday's Glamour Magazine panel on women in tech --if nothing else because it featured two of my favorite women in technology, Hilary Mason and Kara Swisher. When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story". They're awesome and I'd show up to hear them speak anywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” It’s the new magazine. If you’re in the minority that never read them – you should. Case in point: Text messaging.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2016

There are a number of podcasts aimed at entrepreneurship – Forbes recommended twelve in this article , including StartUp and the Pitch – but we’ve also found career inspiration in other programming that’s not specifically geared toward business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

But the rules are different in startup-land: although there are basic best practices for putting together a pitch deck or term sheet, there are no hard rules for approaching potential investors. Tell us how you’d like to be approached by a founder with their initial pitch. That brings up the importance of research.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had finally appeared on the front cover of a magazine (TornadoInsider – then the top European VC magazine) but I felt so fat in the picture I never sent it to anybody. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. I had probably gained 15-20 pounds in the previous year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

But it does highlight that with enough sheer gumption, one can take a magazine business into the digital age and keep aggregate revenue growing. Is it the most exciting debut? No,” he writes. That’s worth something.”. Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC combo. Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?

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MAY 19, 2011

The New York Times' Executive Editor, Bill Keller, wrote a piece for New York Magazine entitled " The Twitter Trap " in which he laments the pandora’s box of continuously connected social media he has just opened for his 13 year old daughter by allowing her to have a Facebook account.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. The fund raise required three in-person pitches, seven Zoom pitches and 30 Zoom calls before closing successfully in August. Successful pitches help your confidence snowball. StockTrim came out successful – oversubscribed, in fact.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you’re a B2B business, go pitch your target audience before you have a product and validate what will make them say yes. The post 500 Founders: Luke Campbell, Marta Meszaros, Andy Bowie & Abbe Hyde appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch. The post 500 Founders: Rick Kiessig, Hannah Hunt, Matthew Jackson & Jenni Matheson appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Fabulous ideas are a dime a dozen.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I’ve spent hours talking to startup founders, and heard a thousand startup pitches, and I always listen carefully to what is said (or not said) about competitors. Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 5, 2022

So give your pitch deck a break and lend an ear!”. This could include mundane tasks from replying to emails or phone calls, to bigger things like completing the pitch document that is needed next week, to prepping content in advance for social media. And don’t forget it’s not a one-way street. Ani Tawhiao-Lomas – Cofounder.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Now I don’t get any.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 9, 2022

It’ll help your people feel valued, supported and invested in and there’s the obvious business and customer benefits in ensuring high quality presentations, pitches and video conferencing. The post 5 tips for communicating and collaborating effectively when remote working appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor to Sidewalk Labs — hopes to woo families with the pitch that it operates at the center of fintech, ed tech, and entertainment.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” In fact, if that person can tell his or her story and relate the lessons learned clearly, there is a positive response many of us will make to the next pitch from that person. or “I learned about flying from that.”

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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? The post Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. And there are people there who want to act on it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Tal adopted strategies that include sticking to a super-simple pitch, aiming to surpass his initial funding target, not taking rejection personally, and setting an unusually low investment threshold so friends and family could be a part of his success. Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The mobile magazine publishing toolkit they developed was sold to Mic in 2017, but it was only the most recent success in a string of collaborations dating back nearly a decade. We have raised enough funding right now to still be there when the pandemic is over.” To date, Klima has raised $5.8 million in financing.

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JULY 8, 2019

Posting about how hard it is to fit fitness into your routine as a parent of three kids—that’s something unique to you that you could imagine being a magazine article. Instead of cold-pitching the media, bring them onto your podcast to share their expertise. It doesn’t always have to be about you and your company either.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Write a time-consuming guest article for a well-known magazine? Beyond the sound bites they offer magazines, there’s often a very different truth.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The founders of “Time” magazine, for example, wanted to create a news magazine that a busy person could read in an hour or less. It was woman-owned, which I liked, and I went through my pitch with Lisa. I was just focused on one goal. Amazon started as an online bookseller. Fruit extract. No preservatives.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

From all walks of life, entrepreneurs come pitch to the sharks in hopes to get funding for their dreams to come true. If one or more sharks are interested in the pitched business, a negotiation of numbers occurs between the entrepreneur and potential shark investor, but not often without a shark fight. and international patents.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 10, 2024

Pitch to the right people, at the right time, with the right product/service. Mary Crampton is the owner and principle consultant at Magnify Consulting The post 10 reasons why your sales pipeline isn’t delivering consistent sales appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2020

There’s likely to be written material that’s part of your crowdfunding pitch, along with graphics and potentially video or audio content. You have to apply for a patent before disclosing your invention, so make sure you get advice on whether there’s anything patentable in your idea before you launch your crowdfunding pitch.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Its Ritz Carlton brand has a travel magazine called The Journey. The Bonvoy brand also has a digital travel magazine, Traveler. It doesn't need to rely on external publication editors to accept their pitches for a story. And you can even go old school and send out high-gloss print magazines.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Mark advises that when you’re introducing yourself to someone and making your elevator pitch, that you need a distinction, a differentiation. Ramon relates and he’s told followers, “Listen, your job when you’re pitching is not trying to get everything in that package. According to Mark, “too many things…is more than one.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 30, 2023

But that’s where Investment Ready comes in, it wraps around young businesses and prepares them with the confidence and capability to pitch to different investment sources. And we came away with a pretty good pitch deck and well-resourced basis of knowledge to use going forward.” appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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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. As a result, investors are more likely to reject the first set of numbers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 19, 2020

What not to do: Do not send the same pitch to many people at the same time. She’s represented a wide array of clients and has earned publicity on national daytime TV talk shows, in local and national magazines, on local TV stations, in newspapers, and on websites and blogs with millions of monthly unique visitors… to name a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. He started the call by telling me he had exciting news.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 23, 2020

2) Pivot your pitch. Look deeply at your customer to see whether you need to pivot your sales pitch. Reframe your pitch so that your services fall into a more urgent category by talking about the pain that you remove for your customer, and how you make their life better. What has changed for them?

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That’s why I started Student Magazine at the height of the Vietnam War, and it’s also why we launched Mates Condoms in the UK. The post Do right and do better in business appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Confirm your free digital mag/s here: Marketing Online. NZ Entrepreneur. NZ Sales Manager. Australian Sales Leader.

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Eventually, her persistence paid off when she secured a meeting with a Neiman Marcus buyer, and after a memorable pitch in which she personally demonstrated Spanx’s slimming effect in the dressing room, she landed her first major retail order.

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