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A $25K Matching Gift To Boost Entrepreneurship in Kansas City Through Storytelling

Feld Thoughts

Today, Amy and I are announcing a matching gift from our Anchor Point Foundation to the Startland News’ Give A Start donor campaign. We will match any contributions from this point forward, up to $25,000. The post A $25K Matching Gift To Boost Entrepreneurship in Kansas City Through Storytelling appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match

Feld Thoughts

As you may know, over breakfast in 2015 Jeff Bussgang and I launched Global EIR with the hope of advancing the startup visa effort on a local and state level after it stalled in Congress. In response to this opportunity, SVB is joining Amy and me in a match challenge to raise $300,000 for Global EIR.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Lee Se-dol (right), a legendary South Korean player of Go, poses with Google researcher Demis Hassabis before the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul. Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items.

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Smart Startups Don’t Try To Satisfy Every Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone on your team needs to be trained to recognize prospects who match your target customer set. Those entrepreneurs who wait for customers to randomly find them will be disappointed by the match, and find themselves always playing catch-up with customers who don’t fit. Everyone who expresses interest is not necessarily a customer.

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Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

Mucker Lab

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. We believe the message applies as much today as it did in 2015 when it was published. --. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It’s an art.

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10 Guidelines for Angel Funding Presentations

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides.

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10 Tips on Making a Memorable Investor Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides.