InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

Refine Your Personal Pitch. You can easily avoid awkward pauses by weaving your Personal Pitch into your networking conversations. Your pitch should comprise the following three elements. If you are networking to assist a startup you are advising, you can substitute the company’s pitch for your personal pitch.

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APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. I feel like I know him better personally since he's always in the chat room during the show asking questions). Investing Strategy. and Half.com.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That has allowed us to be more focused earlier with these companies, and we can come to a decision much sooner to go ahead or not go ahead with an investment. The thing I learned personally in that deal, is it really focused me on how important the entrepreneur and management team are. So, we're pretty accessible to talk to.

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MAY 25, 2013

They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies. Yeah, true.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Men have dominated the world of investment. There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. Natalia Oberti Noguera is on a mission to help change the demographic of investment with her Pipeline Fellowship. TechZulu speaks with Natalia about Pipeline Foundation and her goals to change the face of business and investment.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

We decided we would only take our accelerator to the next level if we found the perfect person to run it. When we started talking to Sam Teller we knew we had the perfect person. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking. Yeah, he was LA, baby! We decided on the latter.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Already invested in one of my key competitors?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Technically, he filled ten roles, as he pitched left handed when facing right-handed batters and right handed with lefties at the plate. By subsuming multiple responsibilities under one individual, a startup can invest more of its cash into furthering its mission. Utility All Star.

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MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. Or they now see the other persons’s perspective. Ask for short conference calls.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. . The group invested $8.7 Let investors help you refine your pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Bockerstette, Main Street Venture Fund Angel investing in most parts of the country remains a relatively informal and unstructured process. Professional angel investing takes time, knowledge, skills and resources. Professional angel investing takes time, knowledge, skills and resources.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

They wanted to be able to say to their senior person (who had hired Accenture in the first place) that they had been good corporate citizens but they had no real intention of actually helping me with me work. I come from a world that if the coach wasn’t yelling at you, it meant he didn’t care. He had a family. Me: “LOL.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Our meeting was memorable both because the pitch was compelling but also because it was the first pitch meeting I ever took in our new Santa Monica offices. Not only was his commitment to LA tech enormous but we happened to have kids on the same traveling soccer team where Andrew was the assistant coach! By “first” I mean?—?we

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Having been on both sides of this sensitive topic, the following is my personal advice. I personally believe it is appropriate to say. When I was raising money I pitched to several VCs. I often coach that this period is often when you can engender great confidence from the partner. Have you invested money directly?

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JULY 19, 2011

And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. One thing I learned from the book is that real estate agents always sell their personal property at higher relative prices than their clients’ properties. They want to place this person.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. On Losing in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. On Losing in VC.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Along with Selling (see Be Like Sam ) and Networking (see Making Stone Soup and Personal Pitch ), negotiating is a vital startup skill. It was more than a fair exchange, as we relieved several people of multi-year lease obligations that would have been disastrous to their personal finances. Another Reason To Be Like Bill.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing.

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