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MARCH 24, 2014

Not every VC used to get pitched by VC funds for a living and has seen hundreds and hundreds of VC pitch decks. Venture capitalists play an important role in burgeoning ecosystems. Their guidance and network can also make these companies better. Venture Capital & Technology'

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MAY 26, 2021

How do you raise money for your venture capital or private equity fund from family offices and high net worths? . I see five innovative new methods for raising capital which emerging managers such as Versatile VC are using, which I’ve ranked in roughly descending order of popularity: .

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JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. Venture Capital & Technology'

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MARCH 31, 2014

Even if you haven''t gotten offers yet, your time is valuable and you can''t pitch everyone. You feel like you have a decent shot of successfully raising, so you want to prioritize who to pitch to first. Phone calls were no substitute for in person and when it came to hiring, my network simply wasn''t as big up there as it was here.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Takes an hour or an hour and a half at most and everyone gets the benefit of a public conversation--versus three or four hours of pitches. Those kinds of requests feel desperate and not only undermine their pitch, but it''s still real time that adds up. Venture Capital & Technology' Panel prep calls.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

The venture capital community reacted to the racial reckoning the country experienced in June in ways I felt were pretty underwhelming—one-time pitch events for Black founders or promises to only meet with Black founders for a month. These resources are often walled off within existing professional networks that lack diversity.

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MAY 11, 2015

That's one thing you have to realize about venture capital. I realized that I judge a lot of hackathons, pitch competitions and other various things on the weekends, and felt like I was losing at least 2 out of my 8 weekend days--so I gave myself back those days. E-mail is networking, deal work, due diligence.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. Perhaps I need to rethink that. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising.

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MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. No more founder pitch meetings. For me, I don’t mind sharing how I think about it. No new investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. But this coming generation is much more likely to be inspired by The Social Network and want to be entrepreneurs. In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. But what about the network? Social development or “Campus life” - Parties!

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APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. Now that I''m gathering capital, that seems to have been a missed opportunity. You see, people doing interesting stuff often need capital to make that stuff sustainable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A number of individuals also participated, including partners from First Round Capital and Wilson Sonsini, Wiley and Allison Cerilli, David Rose, Tom Wisniewski, Chad Stoller, and Ramesh Haridas, among others. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

You pitch me on some product that. I'm not a publisher, so I have to rely on my network to do due diligence. Ok, so it wouldn't be that bad, but the point is: Never let an investor do your pitch for you to stakeholders. How's that for a strong pitch? When I introduced them to a developer, same thing. oh, I dunno.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Raising venture capital is no easy task. Use Your Networks One of the best ways to get VC funding is to use your networks. There’s no point in trying to pitch a healthtech startup to a VC firm that exclusively invests in fintech companies. The more intel you have going into your pitch meeting, the better.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Like Salesforce, HubSpot also has a significant (albeit smaller) network of integration partners. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. 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. So we went for it.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Because I''m in my market and in the flow of top teams and networked with the right folks, I''m never more than a character reference away through someone I trust and know well to just about all of the people I''ve backed. In many cases, I got to know the entrepreneur before they were pitching or even had a deck.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What we did: Rise of the Rest Managing Partner, David Hall , joined Cofounders Capital Managing Partner, Tim McLoughlin, onstage at the Network for Entrepreneurs, Wilmington’s community event. Catch insights from Steve and a recap of the pitch competition. Where we went: Wilmington, NC? Where we went: Detroit, MI?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. Extends network dramatically. Fundraising. Recruiting.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The new initiative includes a strategic partnership with the highly anticipated X-PITCH 2023, a global deeptech startup competition aimed at catalyzing the widespread adoption of cutting-edge technology across diverse industries. “We see immense potential in partnering with X-PITCH.

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JULY 30, 2012

Firms have networks of advisors, too--with particular expertise in your area. Interacting with a venture firm these days can feel like ordering from Seamless. This somewhat mimics real life, where many investors won't take a meeting with you unless they come through their "trusted network".

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

She graduated with high honors from Harvard, is a member of the World Economic Forum and is a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at it. You have just 170 seconds. exit strategy”. just X percent”.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We’ve all heard the anecdotes—the famous founder who pitched 1000 investors before any of them said yes. They think that if they just had enough money to market something, it would take off, yet whenever they pitch the app in front of a crowd of 100 people, the conversion and virality rate isn’t proven out at all.

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MAY 4, 2021

Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. I explained that this wasn’t really a pitch because it lacked all sorts of context. Having been called out, I set up a meeting—but I didn’t do it to take a charity pitch. Who was the team?

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JANUARY 8, 2014

They want someone who can be a friend to startups--someone with a great network, knows everyone, knows product, technical evangelist. I think big companies (and sometimes VC firms) invest too much in personalities when a big personality or someone with a big network should be used more like a tool than a centerpiece. all at once.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

When someone comes in to pitch me, I always ask them to tell me the "origin story". Venture capital isn't a game or club any more than any other industry is. If you know of a newly minted founder whose network could use some additional investors, please make a suggestion in the comments. Are there examples of that?

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Pitching is all about telling a story. You''ve been to demo days and pitch meetups and read Techcrunch and Mashable about product launches. What the hell are you pitching? This is also where the networking and warm intro thing comes into play. Venture Capital & Technology' Come, on, seriously. The Matrix?

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Luckily for aspirational baseball players, pitch velocity, spin rate, and just about every other aspect of playing baseball are highly quantifiable in real-time. Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. You throw a pitch and you don’t find out the speed for a year or even longer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network. I was not the “obvious” choice to build and scale a company—but I did it anyway.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal. This lesson on NINAs applies to VC pitches as well as any sale. Some people have authority (A). Somebody with authority is a decision maker.

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MAY 16, 2024

Add on the fact that some people theorize that the need for venture capital dollars will peak, or potentially already has, and then decline because of the ever-decreasing cost of technology infrastructure as well as the increasing capability of AI to replace expensive humans.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Your team does a good job hustling around to find good teams, but the reality is that your dealflow is more dependent on your network than it is any kind of objective criteria. The interesting thing is that being connected to wealth isn't necessarily a driver of good venture capital performance--why would it be?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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JUNE 5, 2013

Ride sharing service SideCar was recently the target of a NYC police sting that resulted in two cars being impounded--cars belonging to drivers in their network offering rides to people. But do we need government playing the same exact role when loosely constructed networks can serve that same purpose. It''s better for drivers, too.

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