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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

Dream It

Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors. You should pitch how to get higher rents.

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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

Both Sides of the Table

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. Our first big round of venture capital (our A round) was a whopping $16.5 True story.)

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As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works

TechCrunch

Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital.

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Investing in a More Inclusive Innovation Economy

Revolution

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role. The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16! But then the truth sets in.

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The slow-burn standardization of venture capital

TechCrunch

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. The tool, started by pre-seed firm Afore Capital, is based on Common App, which sends one application to multiple colleges and universities. Chat soon, N.

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How pitch training can help startups get their story right

TechCrunch

Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They think they are going to get help convincing investors, and they do, but the byproduct of the process is that they reframe their startup’s vision.

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