Building a Business
Pitching to Journalists and Investors Is Like Playing a Game of Cards. Here’s How to Know Which Ones Will Help You Win.
Which cards must you collect to achieve your goals?
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Business Accounting
Why Investors With an Entrepreneurial Past Are Crucial to Startup Success
By Zamir Shukho
Thought Leaders
How To Know if Your Startup Has a Proper Founder-Market Fit
Startups in their early stages face the challenge of limited data, leading investors to evaluate the co-founding team's potential for success. Founder-market fit, where founders' skills and qualities align with market needs, becomes crucial for investors. The article provides insights on how founders can demonstrate their founder-market fit to investors.
Building a Business
3 PR Strategies to Help Your Startup Attract Investors
Here are three ways pre-launch startups can use PR to secure funding.
Business Accounting
A Guide to Visualizing Data in Your Pitch Deck
What separates your pitch deck from the 99% that go in the trash? Learn how to use data visualization to create compelling investment decks that secure investments to get your business off the runway.
Business Accounting
5 Tips to Win Over Investors in Uncertain Times
Trustworthy, confident and coachable entrepreneurs don't allow an uncertain economy to distract them from executing their business plan.
Building a Business
10 Presentation Tips and Hacks You Need to Know
Presentation design is evolving fast, and traditional presentations are getting simply too boring and commonplace to have an impact. So, here are some of the latest presentation design trends to help you build compelling presentations that engage your audience in 2023.
Business Operations & Logistics
How to Create a Winning Sales Deck to Captivate Your Audience
Are your sales decks losing steam? If your presentations are failing to generate interest and conversions, it's probably time for a strategic upgrade to their structure and content. Here are some tips from my experience over the last decade to help you level up your sales decks.
Building a Business
If You Want to Grow Your Startup and Value, Nurture These 3 Stakeholder Relationships
These are the relationships startup founders should prioritize to enhance their growth, brand value and overall valuation.
Business Funding
Raising Funding in a Downturn Isn’t Impossible — I Did It (and You Can, Too).
Raising money during a downturn isn't always advisable — investors can be more discerning and terms less favorable. As I close my pre-seed round amidst mass layoffs and a looming recession, I've learned a few lessons anyone could learn from.
By Yvette Wu
Building a Business
When Is the Right Time to Seek Investor Funding? Here’s How to Decide.
Here are three tips to help founders decide when to seek and collect investors' money.
Business Funding
Is the Era of Conventional Pitch Decks Over? Here’s How Virtual and Augmented Reality are Changing Pitch Decks
If your pitch deck fails to impress investors, it's time to upgrade it with the power of augmented and virtual reality.
Building a Business
Beyond the Basics: 5 Surprising Qualities Investors Seek in a Winning Team
Getting funding for a startup is challenging. A good pitch, goal matching and product-market fit are not enough. Investors look for at least five qualities in a founder that may not be immediately apparent.
Business Funding
Use This Game-Changing Tool to Make or Break Your Pitches To Investors
Get ready to win over investors and captivate your audience with video, the best tool for conveying your message and value
Business Accounting
Do You Have These 6 Personality Traits? You’re More Likely to Score Investors
Showing these key leadership traits are more likely to catch an investor's eye.
Business Accounting
Here’s What’s Brewing in the Minds of Startup Investors
Are you a startup entrepreneur looking for investment opportunities? Learn what's on the minds of potential investors and increase your chances of success!
Building a Business
This Co-Founder Was Kicked Out of Retailers for Pitching a ‘Taboo’ Beauty Product. Now, Her Multi-Million-Dollar Company Sells It for More Than $20 an Ounce.
Childhood friends and Harvard grads Laura Schubert and Lillian Tung launched Fur to address the problem no one was talking about.
By Amanda Breen
Thought Leaders
Your Cold Pitch Sucks. Here’s How to Approach Prospects the Right Way.
Are you blindly sending your cold pitch to the masses? Here's why that's a bad idea.
Business Accounting
What Every Founder Needs to Know About the Valuation Gap Between Entrepreneurs and Investors
For founders to most effectively bridge the valuation gap between themselves and investors, they must establish trust through the following four approaches.
Business Accounting
Is Now a Good Time to Invest? 3 Reasons To Get Started
Volatile markets provide ample investment opportunities but proceed with caution.
Business Accounting
6 Steps to Finding the Right Investors for Your Business
Are you an entrepreneur looking for the right investors to grow your business? Follow this proven formula to get the resources you need to succeed — on your own terms.
By Jenny Kassan
Business Funding
4 Keys to Finding the Right Investors and Raising More Money for Your Business
Despite a rocky economy, investors are still looking for companies to back. Here's what it takes to find the best ones for you.
By Tom Livne
Business Accounting
Would You Say No to a $2 Million Investment Offer?
On this episode of 'Elevator Pitch,' things go very, very big.
By Dan Bova
Thought Leaders
The Surprise Move That Resulted in a $100K Investment
On this episode of 'Elevator Pitch,' one entrepreneur literally moves our board of investors.
By Dan Bova
Business Operations & Logistics
Worried About Raising Capital in a Recession? Give Your Company The Edge By Doing What Other Entrepreneurs Often Overlook.
There's one frequently underutilized resource many entrepreneurs overlook that could give their company a competitive edge.
By Adam Horlock
Thought Leaders
I Tried to Cut a Deal With Jeff Bezos to Help My Hometown. Here’s What Happened (and the Lessons I Learned).
Here are a few valuable lessons I learned after presenting a proposal to Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Business Accounting
Saving vs. Investing: Which Is Better?
So which is better, saving or investing? Well, the answer depends on your short-term or long-term goals. However, if there is one mistake you can make when deciding between the two, it's heavily relying on only one — especially if you choose the "savings" option.
Thought Leaders
What Do You Do When an Investor Suddenly Changes the Terms Mid-Deal?
Learn the finer points of pitching and deal-making in the new episode of Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.
By Dan Bova