Fundraising trends for 2024: Get to the point, explain ‘why now’

[ad_1] Thanksgiving is long behind us, so unless you’re already in due diligence with a VC, you may as well pack up your fundraising knapsack and chill out until the…

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Sample Seed pitch deck: Scalestack’s $1M deck

[ad_1] AI is everywhere, and predictably, sales teams are among the early adopters. So I wasn’t surprised to see Scalestack raise $1 million to help make sales teams’ lives easier….

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If I’m being honest, I didn’t have what it takes to be a founder

[ad_1] Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working with some truly spectacular founders. One guy was a three-star general at one point. Another is in the U.S. because…

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No, you can’t lie to your board of directors

[ad_1] We were blessed (cursed?) with the mother of all startup drama this week when Sam Altman was ousted from the top of multi-billion-dollar startup OpenAI. How do we know…

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How Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world

[ad_1] For many startups, getting a spot in an accelerator program like Y Combinator or TechStars is like winning the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Accelerators offer a…

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Sample Series A extension pitch deck: Phospholutions’ $10.15M deck

[ad_1] I haven’t seen a lot of agriculture tech startups submit their pitch decks for this series, so I was delighted to get one from Phospholutions, which just closed a…

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Before you found a startup, think about your personal goals

[ad_1] In one of my past startups, I had a co-founder who had a pretty clear goal for himself: he wanted to make $1 million for every year that he…

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Pirr raised an angel round to help you co-write erotica with an AI

[ad_1] Generative AI — is there anything it won’t do? Well, truthfully, most of the time you’re not going to be able to convince it to share its innermost fantasies…

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Pitch Deck Teardown: SplitBrick’s $200K angel deck

[ad_1] I don’t often tear down angel decks for the Pitch Deck Teardown series for a pretty simple reason: The expectations that angel investors have from a pitch deck are…

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Demos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch

[ad_1] When you’re doing stage pitch, a demo can really liven up your connection with the audience. Plus, being able to explain what the product is and does while showing…

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