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APRIL 14, 2014

It also doesn''t take into consideration many important factors: One, venture backed companies are a tiny hiccup in the grand scheme of entrepreneurship. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. I scratch my head over why raising venture is put on such a podium.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” The keyword is compelling. Separate your solution from competitors in the market.

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JUNE 23, 2014

It doesn''t help them improve their pitch or adjust their model. If you take a smart home pitch, and you turn it down because you''re not certain how the smart home segment will play out, what you should have done was tell the entrepreneur this, but offer up the opportunity to shed some light. Venture Capital & Technology'

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Go pitch a VC with an idea, and they''ll tell you to build it. Technology is moving faster, markets are changing more quickly and uncertainty seems to be increasing. Venture Capital & Technology' Go to them with a prototype and they''ll tell you to launch it. Launch it, and they''ll tell you to get more users.

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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. Venture Capital & Technology' How are we supposed to get better?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Perhaps you have an interesting building management technology. Make a whitepaper available on the topic of innovative technology in buildings, just to get the leads, without telling everyone what your business is upfront. And please, please, please don''t pitch VCs who blog to write about your company as if we were tech journalists.

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JULY 24, 2013

It''s more than an elevator pitch, but not enough time for a full pitch. First of all, get it out of your head that Office Hours is time to pitch. In fact, any short meeting--an Office Hours or rushing the speaker after a speaking event, or an actual elevator ride--should never be thought of as a pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. LPs Still Believe Strongly in Venture Capital as a Diverse Source of Returns.

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David Teten VC

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: . For further reading.

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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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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. When you pitch, tell a firm how they can be helpful. How did you pick who to pitch? Venture Capital & Technology'

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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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AUGUST 19, 2013

I had someone pitch me recently who started their e-mail out with an indication of how fast the round was going. I’m more interested in the way you think, communicate and lead, than your Keynote pitch skills. Venture Capital & Technology' Instead, I''ll likely be trying to find ways to cut my losses.

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MARCH 17, 2014

The first pitch I got was from someone who didn''t intend on staying with the business as an employee. Everyone I''ve ever gotten pitched from can''t wait to quit their other jobs to work on what''s being pitched. I''m a big fan of transparency, but if you''re going to go far and wide on a pitch, organizing your story is key.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Miliary veterans possess attributes, experience, and skills that can be well-applied to entrepreneurship through leadership and knowledge of technology. Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

It saves you the time of manually pitching the other 498 because those two will find you. Why are you paying to sponsor a conference or pitching other media outlets. Venture Capital & Technology' They''re out looking for this kind of content and experience. This is what Mike Lazerow did at Buddy Media.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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). One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising. There is no fork.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

If you were to have to pitch a VC right now on a concept, the part about why you is already known--you''ve been living it. Venture Capital & Technology' What has life put you in a position to have unique insight into? So what startup have you already started working on before you have an idea?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

AIMMO announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series A round to advance its data labeling technology and spur global expansions. AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck. AIMMO declined to comment on its valuation. ScreenShot | AIMMO website. billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $8.2

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. Dennis and Naveen had pitched just about every investor you could think of and came up with a whopping zero term sheets. Venture Capital & Technology' Not hot at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I have sat through countless pitches with Ivy League grads spewing off intellectual descriptions of the details of their product or service and why it will win in the market. In a VC pitch this type of messaging will do just fine. These messages need to pass the cocktail party pitch. And I think this is a mistake.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

You sent them the same pitch you sent everywhere else. Venture Capital & Technology' Sometimes, you send some info over to a reporter and they do what needs to be done, but the result is the same kind of story you see everywhere else. Yes, I''m accusing tech journalists of barely rewriting press releases.

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MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds. Technology has already made the world pretty efficient.

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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. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Tim Friedman, Founder, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile Venture Capital , said, . “We

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It''s the story of your customers--the ice cream shop owner and dog groomer who now use your technology to gain new customers, because tech savvy small business people could be interesting when they have quirky businesses. Work with other companies to share contact lists, introduce each other to other reporters, and to pitch things together.

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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? Venture Capital & Technology' You''ve practiced long and hard on how you tell your story. That''s like 40-60 companies a month.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

In many cases, I got to know the entrepreneur before they were pitching or even had a deck. Venture Capital & Technology' That''s the difference between fulltime investors, angels who focus on particular areas of expertise, and "drop-ins". Tell me how I''m being unreasonable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The conversation spanned 30 minutes and includes a look at Agility Robotics’ early pitch deck. We were surfing the internet like any good venture capital group, and we ran across the video that Agility released,” says Leak. “We What it did, however, was break down the startup’s impressive technologies.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

You pitch me on some product that. Ok, so it wouldn't be that bad, but the point is: Never let an investor do your pitch for you to stakeholders. We do a quick hacky check with people we know if it seems interesting, and because we don't know how to pitch it as well as you do, they don't get excited, so we don't. oh, I dunno.

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APRIL 23, 2012

When people tell you how and why they raised capital or what drove their app to success, they often attribute success to planning or neat little explainable reasons when they might simply have no clue what happened. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

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. What do people often misunderstand about pitch training? For those with a bit more experience, pitching is about a set of slides to achieve a certain goal, mostly funding.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

It doesn't have to count as an official pitch of any kind. It's more just to understand the kinds of things VCs are going to ask and want to see when you are ready to pitch. In fact, more people e-mailed me boring powerpoints in the last week than signed up to actually pitch in person. So you'd think it would be sold out, right?

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