American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

They also presented their brand story with tangible deliverables to an advisory board comprised of Maesa executives and guest executives who gave them insight and tools to move forward confidently in the Consumer Packaged Goods category.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Also slotting somewhere in the product category is Gamma , a presentation designer platform built around a card-like interface. In addition to hosting templates for companies to build branded presentations, Prezent.ai

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500

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The post 500’s Past & Present: Betting on International Startups appeared first on 500 Startups. So it really comes down to the thing that we always say which is that we always believed from day one that there are brilliant startups all over the world, but opportunity isn’t universal.” – Tim Chae, Managing Partner at 500 As a.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this keynote presentation from AI Revolution, a16z general partner Martin Casado explains why with generative AI, that’s changing. [0:00] Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. To date, a handful of large companies have captured the value created by advances in AI.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 31, 2018

Steve Jobs was arguably one of the best presenters to ever grace a stage. His presentations were inspiring. I’ve developed my own steps for successful presentations—and I’m sharing all 10 of them here. When I design my keynote presentations, I do everything on paper first. TIP FIVE: STICK TO THE RULE OF THREE.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides. From witnessing all of these presentations I can tell you that there is a right place and a wrong place to sit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I sit through a lot of presentations. Understand Personality Types – One of the benefits of working for a big company (Accenture) was that we had lots of speakers come in and train us in topics like leadership, creativity, presentations, strategy, etc. I’m also reasonably intelligent as most VCs you present to will be.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

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Feedough

JANUARY 26, 2021

Such a shift did not come easily, and for it to happen, women had to go out of their ways and present a side of them that was previously unknown to the world. How does their present look? The Present. The present does indeed seem a lot kinder to women than the past. But what did the past look like for women entrepreneurs?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You would expect the co-founder of a startup that improves on traditional slide presentations to hate tools like PowerPoint. But he found that creating good presentations took hours of work and was especially difficult for people without a visual design background. But that’s not the case with Mayuresh Patole, the CEO of Chronicle.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2014

These days, we''ve got so much that can distract us, being present has become a rare feat. A year ago, I wrote a post about how I was trying to keep my phone away during meals-- No Phone with Food. I''ve tried to stick to it, but it''s hard. I run my own business and I try and make myself available whenever my entrepreneurs need me.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all. A list of the companies presenting today follows below plus a bit about what each is doing as I understand it. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

PowerPoint may still dominate the landscape for presentations in many people’s minds, but some might say that legacy status also makes Microsoft’s software ripe for disruption. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

One of the least expensive, most effective marketing tools available, is an engaging, persuasive presentation. Delivering kickass virtual presentations can win new clients, impress investors, galvanize a team and catapult your career. 5 Ways to Shift Your Visual Presentations from Good to Great to Exceptional.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. The startup was part of the summer 2020 class at accelerator Y Combinator. It also raised a $1.32

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 2, 2021

Presenting Startup Summit?—?first Presenting Startup Summit?—?first first 500 people join us for free Hello hello! Here at EH, the team is thrilled to announce our first of many monthly live online events?—? Startup Summit ?—?taking Sign up and join entrepreneurs from across the world. What are you waiting for? Sign up here.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The post Ben Franklin Technology Partners Presents: Feed the Founders Networking Event Featuring Special Guest Simone Kendle, CEO of Wove first appeared on BFTP/CNP. The post Ben Franklin Technology Partners Presents: Feed the Founders Networking Event Featuring Special Guest Simone Kendle, CEO of Wove appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 9, 2024

Bio Eats World is now Raising Health! Vijay Pande, founding partner of Bio + Health, is joined by Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aviv Regev, and Jakob Uszkoreit. Vijay leads us on a reflective journey through the monumental achievements in AI from the 1980s to today, with a focus on the progress in healthcare and life sciences.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

So we’re hooking up with Extreme Tech Challenge (‘XTC’) to present the Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals , a startup competition focused on powering a more sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and healthy world.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 provides you.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? I’ve taken on a few investors since then, but if I take on more, I run the risk of no longer qualifying for an E-2 because my equity is diluting. I’m considering either having my startup sponsor me for an O-1A visa or self-petitioning an EB-1A green card.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Lisa Wu, a partner at Norwest with investments like Calm, Plaid, Opendoor and Grove Collaborative, has a message for founders: Think like a VC during your pitch presentation. With experience on both sides of the investing table, Wu is going to talk about how founders can make the most out of each minute within a one-hour pitch presentation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Celonis can now map multiple processes and present them in subway-style map by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch. With a $13B valuation, Celonis defies current startup economics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

There are typically 10 or so companies that present and not many more. For the rest of you who missed Pear’s demo day this year, which took place last week in person at the outfit’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California (Pear has taken over a former beer garden), herewith are the nine teams that presented.

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Gust

JANUARY 18, 2014

The presenter is not a naturally talented speaker, has never been taught how to present, and/or hasn’t practiced the presentation. Blowing only one of the three generally merits the presenter at least a respectful response and discussion (although if it’s a case of #1, then there obviously will not be an investment.)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. But even as other technology rapidly evolves, basic web infrastructure has remained largely unchanged since the turn of the millennium.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Information Asymmetry - The biggest problem that presenters face in large (5+ people) is information asymmetry. You come into a meeting where your sponsor (the person who invited you to present to the partners) knows a lot about you and the rest of the room may have varying degrees of knowledge. Does that sound ok?&#.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve large problems — expanded its remit, adding a New York arm to the operations it was already running out of San Francisco.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The post Leveraging digital platform to amplify green participation by the public: An Ant Group case study presented at COP28 first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 30, 2016

The post EO Partner Presents: A New Approach to Social Change appeared first on THE BLOG. In turn, EO members have the opportunity to be a part of teams for systems change, bringing the power of their experience to solving problems while finding new value. The mutual benefit is not hard to see— in this alliance, everyone wins.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

That presents an interesting opportunity not just for the biggies like Zoom, Google and Microsoft, but also players who are building entirely new platfroms from the ground up. mmhmm is a notable company in that context.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Any time you have space that is occupied less of the time or where people don’t need to be present,” Johnson said, “there will be a greater need for remote monitoring. It is a way for businesses to reduce interaction. Sensor applications will drive the workplace of the future.”.

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