by Adre's IT | 26 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, DNA testing, executive order, Lumigo, Startups, the zebra, Xuan Yong
A year ago, Mike Butcher reported that Faye hopes to do for travel insurance what Lemonade did for general insurance, and that’s as good a summary of what Faye does as anything. The company was kind enough to share its (lightly redacted) pitch deck with me so I...
by Adre's IT | 13 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Asana, elon musk buys twitter, executive order, fig, mosquitoes, real estate agents, Secfi, Startups, sunlight
For an article we’re running on her last day at TechCrunch, Natasha Mascarenhas reached out to four investors to find out whether FOMO is encouraging them to climb aboard the AI bandwagon. “Some are hiring talent to jump headfirst, others are happy to back the...
by Adre's IT | 5 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, blade runner, e-scooter, example pitch deck, executive order, Lumigo, real estate agents, Startups, Xuan Yong
We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series, and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequently is that it’s easy to be a critic: What would we have done? Well, we’re not ones to turn away from a challenge here at TechCrunch+. So...
by Adre's IT | 24 February, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, executive order, Lumigo, Startups, Uber
There’s a pretty decent chance you’ve heard of a little company called Uber. It was a Crunchies finalist back in 2011 (for Best Location Application, alongside Runkeeper, Foursquare, Airbnb and Grindr), and it’s been doing rather well ever since. As...
by Adre's IT | 10 February, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, e-scooter, executive order, Lumigo, property management, Startups, Zoom Apps
Back in August, our own Ron Miller covered the $6 million seed round of Spinach, a company that’s building out its meeting tool designed specifically for engineers using agile methodology to run stand-up meetings online. It caught my eye at the time: There is no...
by Adre's IT | 12 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, executive order, Market Analysis, startup prices, Startups, Venture Capital
There’s one slide that almost every founder gets wrong when they are putting together a pitch deck to raise money from venture capitalists. The slide is usually known as “the ask,” and it typically lives toward the end of the pitch deck. It is meant...
