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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. Strategies for crafting a strong and compelling vision for your startup: Towards the end of your pitch, tell investors that “this is just the beginning” for your startup. It’s not about the slide deck.

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. For all we know, white men make 99% of the pitches. I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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It Depends: Why the right fundraising strategy for your startup is never a straight answer.

This is going to be BIG.

The problem is that your pitch is a combination of a bunch of individual components, each of whom an investor is going to have particular reactions to and sometimes a great reaction to one is enough to push you over the top—or sink your pitch. What gives?

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

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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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

Or the way Uber is shaking up the cozy, static world of taxi transportation. They pitch me features, not value. Or like a company I spoke to today, SportsForce , that is helping high-school athletes better prepare to get picked up by college sports teams. That’s a problem in need of a solution – I’m sure.

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Burro raises $10.9M for autonomous produce field transport

TechCrunch

Burro first crossed our path during our 2020 robotics event, when the agtech company competed in our pitch off. The company (which used to go by the decidedly less fun name Augean) appears to be moving up in the world, announcing a $10.9 million Series A raise this week.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding product-market fit, pitch deck teardown, getting into YC

TechCrunch

Charging technology industry transport which are the futuristic of the Automobile. Pitch deck teardown: Minut. If you’d like to see your pitch deck featured on TechCrunch+, click through for details. Pitch Deck Teardown: Minut. Power supply connect to electric vehicle for charge to the battery.