Pitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M seed deck

[ad_1] I recently wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed round. Given that the tool evaluates pitch decks, it’s only fair that I offered to evaluate its pitch deck, too. The…

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AI and empathy: Where do we draw the line?

[ad_1] The hours are long, but the years are short Suspend your disbelief for the briefest of moments, and imagine that we live in the 1970s, when people still turned…

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Taking another look at venture debt

[ad_1] It may make sense for later-stage companies Silicon Valley Bank’s nosedive has soured many on venture debt, and for early-stage companies, it bears being cautious. As an option for…

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Where founders go wrong with pitch decks

[ad_1] Here’s a 21-point checklist for your VC pitch deck I’ve broken down the wins and fails of more than 60 decks for TechCrunch+. But if we’re being honest, these…

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Sample Series B pitch deck: Unito’s $20M deck

[ad_1] Unito is a platform that takes a different approach to managing SaaS apps. Today we’ll take a look at how the company’s pitch deck helped it raise $20 million…

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How Gear Patrol acquired DPReview from Amazon

[ad_1] In March, DPReview announced that parent company Amazon was shutting it down, and the photography world entered a dual state of shock and disbelief. For 25 years, DPReview had…

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Why this founder decided to replace himself as CEO

[ad_1] Founding a company is a big deal, and taking on the CEO role to drive that company forward is an important choice. Some founders are able to lead their…

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Can Amazon please show mercy to the brands and products we love?

[ad_1] DPreview may prove to be a lesson on how to sell your company Digital Photography Review (best known as DPReview) was regarded as one of the best review and…

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This VC firm uses personality tests and AI to find its next investments

[ad_1] The fund has no carry, and the first sift is done by robots Investors are throwing money at AI startups (perhaps not as much as you might think), so…

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Europe is more of a fuzzy tech cloud than a functioning ecosystem

[ad_1] But there is hope on the horizon Haje Jan Kamps Contributor Haje Jan Kamps is the director of portfolio at Bolt, a venture capital firm focused on hardware startups…

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