This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 14, 2014
Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching. What I do think is going on is that men and women start the pitch process at different stages. Why so many mixed teams?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2014
There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. You start to test out whose opinions mapped best to your own situation and whether following their advice would have been useful. Triangulate.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 14, 2013
” 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. Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners. A journalist has a visual chart they can use. More strategic.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
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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.
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! So where does a company like Smalls fit in?
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