The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for your Startup Investor Pitch Deckby Donna GriffitAfter 14+ years of writing hundreds of investor pitches that raised hundreds of millions of dollars — here’s the winning formula!Continue
What Makes a Great Brand Storyby Megan GrovesAnd why you should stop everything and figure out your story ASAP.Continue
Moneyball for your Startup Accelerator Applicationby Scott BrownLet’s look at 3 things you need to avoid, and 3 things you better get right.Continue
TechCrunch Vs. ProductHunt: How We Drove 1,300 Signups In 2 Daysby Katie SullivanPR is part science, part art – part timing, part luck. The process never goes quite as expected, but sometimes the outcome can be even better.Continue
Validate your startup idea before building anythingby Dave Sloan5 steps every entrepreneur should take to before building a product.Continue
Announcing: Startups Liveby Wil SchroterStartups Live is a moderated, members-only Slack community where we're pulling together the smartest Founders (and their teams) into a single discussion for one hour every day.Continue
Business Lessons From “The Art of War” by Sun Tzuby Dylan BirdLessons can be learned in the most unexpected places. They are there waiting for you and I to find them, pull them out, and put them to use— even if they're from the 5th century BC. Learn what a 2,400 year old book taught me about business.Continue
The Full List of 400+ Slack Communitiesby Alex KistenevCommunities built on Slack are skyrocketing, see the full list.Continue
3 Ways to Make Your Crowdfunding Marketing Campaign a Smash Successby Jesse KaufmanIt's not that you should ignore the bedrock principles of marketing. The key is taking traditional marketing's chapter-and-verse fundamentals and putting a new spin on the approach.Continue