This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Whether you're at a Plug and Play, Dogpatch, General Assembly or just hanging out in the lobby of an Ace Hotel, you're never that far from a peer group of startups in any big city. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2024

Nominees compete against their peers from around the world in a series of local, national, and regional competitions in hopes to qualify for the GSEA Global Finals. Nominees compete against their peers from around the world in a series of local, national, and regional competitions in hopes to qualify for the GSEA Global Finals.

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Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

The most successful entrepreneurs are those with multiple real-life experiences, who have personal exposure to markets where opportunities are being left on the table. It’s a huge opportunity to learn early. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. This is your opportunity to highlight it for them. Build credibility with peers The security community is a tight-knight one. Securetech Managing Director at Dreamit, Mel Shakir , talks to CISOs every week.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. They seemed to agree with everything I said.&#. Far better that you noodle with them.

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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. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . We had a specific goal in mind. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

When I’m scanning a pitch deck I’m basically looking to put it into one of two buckets – Traditional or Different. Or contrarian in the number of companies and/or dollars invested per company compared to their peers. But we’re interested in taking this risk when the person and opportunity warrants it.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. 1) Your school. 1) Your school. school of engineering).

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" I will not, however, tolerate hate in anyone's direction. Ducks head.] Ok, let's dive in.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. You throw a pitch and you don’t find out the speed for a year or even longer. That pitch you threw a year ago, that was 92. Just how good is good?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2019

You need not only a few focused hours to craft the article, but you’ll need the bandwidth to pitch ideas to editors and follow up on queries. A good ghostwriter comes up with content ideas , pitches to editors, and writes top-quality content. And you’d be right in many cases! What is a ghostwriter? Writing takes time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Our chapter president approached me and asked if I would be interested in creating a competition, with the catch that we’d never participated in GSEA before. Create Incentive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. This had a dual purpose?—?the they are communities and tribes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Our chapter president approached me and asked if I would be interested in creating a competition, with the catch that we’d never participated in GSEA before. Create Incentive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

My husband and I are also pitching a second Weird Homes Tour book with all of the cities in it. At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. 5000 list twice! . You opened Urban Betty in 2005 and it’s been growing ever since. What drives you? And what’s next?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2020

The combination of all of these factors creates an opportunity for companies to provide information and thought leadership during a difficult time—or even simply entertainment. What’s a company to do with their marketing? So what are you supposed to do in the meantime? Does it look tone deaf to be out marketing your business right now?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

An accelerator can provide a valuable opportunity to foster relationships with investors, distributors, retail chains, influencers, and other like-minded entrepreneurs. An accelerator can provide a valuable opportunity to foster relationships with investors, distributors, retail chains, influencers, and other like-minded entrepreneurs.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They learn how to assess startups’ products, management, market opportunities and business models; how to perform due diligence, evaluate an investment pitch, and make informed investment decisions. Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M in 17 startups since 2019.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. The program includes learning modules, expert coaching, peer networking and a marketplace of tools and solutions. Brianna Ellison. What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The pitch: Video has emerged as one of the prominent ways for enterprises to communicate internally and externally with their customers and partners. The pitch: Video has emerged as one of the prominent ways for enterprises to communicate internally and externally with their customers and partners. Website: accessbell.com.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

But the key to success is about more than just clever branding and a good elevator pitch. The framework was originally created to help public market investors determine whether or not an investment opportunity afforded a defensible moat that would contribute to a superior return-profile. It’s also about establishing a competitive moat.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

This is the slide-deck equivalent of a standup comedian standing on a stage, peering into the spotlights, muttering ‘pharmacies, amirite?’ We cover a lot of health startups here on TechCrunch, and you know what it’s really hard to get any sort of excitement about? An online pharmacy that raised yet another round of funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Adam Witty, Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Charleston, South Carolina, and CEO and founder of Forbesbooks , asked business leaders whose brain they would want to pick and what they would discuss given the opportunity. What would you ask them? Robert Kraft, CEO of the Kraft Group. Strauss, Esq., The Strauss Law Firm, LLC.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. Website: [link]. Website: [link].

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

My GSEA experience provided the opportunity to refine my pitch and really understand what problems and cultural challenges people face when exploring cities. All of these pitches combined made our pitch to Visa well-practiced, precise and clear. In June 2017, you won Visa’s Everywhere Initiative.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It’s your last chance to grab the first of many opportunities this two-day conference provides. Let’s talk about the opportunities at TC Sessions: Space. Don’t miss your opportunity to meet some of the leading space funding programs and learn how you can access grant money to fuel your startup for the long haul.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the markets turned early this year, insurtech left most generalist investors’ playbooks almost as fast as Metromile and its peers’ plummeting valuations. The bulk of the buyers, however, would likely be companies involved in insurance themselves – either insurtechs acquiring some of their peers or legacy players.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] As I was scrolling through Twitter today and saw the rumors around Gimlet, the podcast media company, being acquired by Spotify for $200M in cash, I knew I had to stop, write this post, and share some thoughts on what’s going on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent. Because he feared they might fall behind their stateside peers, he began tutoring them when they arrived home, using Khan Academy among other software platforms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more. 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more. My recent tweet underscored the chord community strikes even in sectors such as edtech, which often have to sell to fragmented customer bases.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

At these shows-within-our-show, you’ll engage with smart, driven founders, and investors and members of your community, and have the opportunity to cross-collaborate with leaders from other industries. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? That’s certainly true for the Builder Stage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky. PIN, which stands for power in numbers, has freshly raised a $5.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Swaroop, now a partner at the firm, turned out to be right. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Finally, the program is based on peer-to-peer feedback. But the most powerful peer-to-peer component is that you have to give feedback to people when you’re going through the program. But the most powerful peer-to-peer component is that you have to give feedback to people when you’re going through the program.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

There, they share pitch materials and information about their business. After this is done , Pariti benchmarks each company against its peers. According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. A three-way marketplace.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 14, 2024

On June 13, 2024, the PA Wilds BIG IDEA Finale Pitch event was hosted by the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport. After rigorous evaluation, two outstanding contenders have emerged, each presenting groundbreaking solutions in diverse fields. Learn more about Roambler.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. and the E.U.,

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