In the past two posts, you learned about what piques a reporter's interest and how to make it newsworthy. It's time to take the knowledge and create a pitch for journalists.
Guys! During the YC Startup School I gradually started to implement different ideas to track primary metrics and I have involved my team to set OKR (Objectives and Key Results) and track their important metrics too. Eventually it has been structured on a dashboard using just google spreadsheets and formulas and charts.
Looking for tips to develop a robust and incredible elevator pitch? A compelling elevator pitch is pretty essential for achieving your business goals and objectives. Whether you want to raise money from venture capitalists or angel investors, or just willing to hire a perfect team for your business, elevator pitch is the most important task.
This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible.
A successful pitch starts with a well-thought-out pitch deck. And the "Why now" section is arguably one of the most important aspects of that deck.
These simple steps will help you to avoid common mistakes during a presentation, catch stakeholder's attention and receive the green light for your project.
Asking for money isn't always as straightforward as it seems. Ask for too much, and you can end up looking for funds for months or years on end. Fail to show ho
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic - Seth Godin
Hiring for your startup's founding team, but struggling to recruit the best candidates? This guide will help you perfect your pitch and attract top talent!
Stewart Kohl is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio with offices across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Riverside Company has more than $7 billion in assets under management and oversees a global portfolio of more than 80 companies. Prior to joining Riverside in 1993, Kohl served as vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital and COO of the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C
If a company doesn’t have solid capital from the start, it can get funding from other resources such as venture capitalists, business angels, and accelerators.
Businesses want to make sales.
A very concise article with 5 tips for storytelling when fundraising for a startup or pitching at a competition.
It's been a week of preparation and you’ve rehearsed in front everything and everyone, including, but notwithstanding mirrors, husbands and even cats. You’re geared up and ready to go. The stage is set, you start talking and within a few minutes, half of your audience, instead of glazing at you, locks their eyes into their gadgets. How to keep people entertained and win back those whose attention you’ve lost? I’ve uncovered the eight secrets of successful stage performance, which will help you keep even the most capricious audience.
Tons of websites offer guest post opportunities, and probably you would love to get published at least in one of them. Working on both sides - publisher at Abstract Stylist and an independent blogger, I have a rare opportunity to share my insights and most common mistakes people make while pitching their guest posts. Let's take a look at 5 mistakes I see people make daily.
A step-by-step plan on becoming the God of Pitches for investors and start-up contests.
A good pitch tells the story of your idea. From its inception to its present form and everything in between. Utilising multimedia, graphs and visuals is a good way to keep your audience engaged and up to speed. Most fundamentally, using data is important for both your audience and your idea.
How should I pitch my company to journalists? Good question! Journalists love two things: respect for their personality and exclusive information. What else?
Aleksandr Volodarsky goes over the benefits of cold e-mailing.
Looking for tips to develop a robust and incredible elevator pitch? A compelling elevator pitch is pretty essential for achieving your business goals and objectives. Whether you want to raise money from venture capitalists or angel investors, or just willing to hire a perfect team for your business, defining your elevator pitch is the most important task.
The entrepreneurial road to business success is never easy. But one way to make the path to entrepreneurial success even more challenging is simply to be born female. Female entrepreneurs face challenges that their male counterparts have never even considered.
This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible.
When a culture of risk aversion creates risk of harm
A listicle of unfeasible, unpleasant, and unproduceable podcast concepts, as nominated by the Hacker Noon top writers and editors Slogging community.
You’re planning a big adventure — skydiving or swimming with the sharks, for example — you’ve probably got the details mapped out.
Hi community! My name is Sergii, I'm a CEO at WellSpeak from Kyiv Ukraine. We build a mobile app for practicing English speaking skills.
A distributed workforce, long prophesied by the tech community, has been accelerated by a decade in the last six months.
Looking for tips to develop a robust and incredible elevator pitch? A compelling elevator pitch is pretty essential for achieving your business goals and objectives. Whether you want to raise money from venture capitalists or angel investors, or just willing to hire a perfect team for your business, defining your elevator pitch is the most important task.
