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Pitch Deck Teardown: Careerist’s $8M Series A deck

TechCrunch

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Slides in this deck The team submitted this slide deck with the note that it was submitted exactly as it pitched it to the investors. Not all in good ways, but I’m getting slightly ahead of myself.

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Shark Tank's Lori Greiner Joins Ramon on Verizon’s Small Business Talks

Smart Hustle Magazine

From all walks of life, entrepreneurs come pitch to the sharks in hopes to get funding for their dreams to come true. If one or more sharks are interested in the pitched business, a negotiation of numbers occurs between the entrepreneur and potential shark investor, but not often without a shark fight. and international patents.

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Three Exercises Every First Time Venture Fund Needs to Work Through

This is going to be BIG.

If you’re lacking for track record as a firm, here’s three exercises you should walk through to help turn your pitch and due diligence meetings from guesswork into something more substantive. Obviously, that’s ideal, but that’s not where everyone starts. You can RSVP here: [link]

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Pitch, a platform for making and sharing presentations, raises $85M on a $600M valuation

TechCrunch

Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Series B of $85 million to take it on with what it believes is a more dynamic approach. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint. The startup has already seen good progress on the latter front.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Gust

Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

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How to Pitch Investors and Get Funded Webinar

Gust

Wondering how to get investors’ attention or how to deliver a perfect pitch? Gust has teamed up with LivePlan to equip you with the best tips for pitching investors and expert advice to increase your chances of getting funded. Join us for this revealing webinar, How to Pitch and Get Funded, on November 20 th at 1pm ET (10am PT).

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 2

Ecosystem Builder Hub

2020: Babson Collaborative Webinar Series, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Challenges, Perspectives & Research agenda, Hosted by TBS (March 3rd, Toulouse). HilbertProblems (As an educator, I am working on a webinar/MOOC to serve ecosystem builders. 2) If you’ve got a better idea for a project, pitch it! (3) 2020ecosyPDW ].