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How To Not Suck At Pitching Your Startup

Our host, Raj, aka the StartupHypeman is one of my favorite pitch coaches and has provided some of the most insightful and useful pitch tips I’ve seen in the industry. When I asked him for his hits reel, he sent me these for you to sample (common mistakes, elevator pitching, how to think about pitching, it’s a matter of perspective)

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Due this week & new opportunities

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• Lenovo Evolve Small Grant

  📅 : 11/27/2023

  💰: up to $15,000 ✏️ Description: Your small business* could be the talk of the town with incredible ad spots, tech, grants and personalized videos. There are 3 different packages, ran...

• Techstarts Detroit Powered by JP Morgan

  📅 : 11/29/2023

  💰: $120,000 ✏️ Description: The Techstars Detroit Powered by JP Morgan program is virtual/hybrid and open to all industries and all founders globally. This accelerator is designe...

• Techstars NYC Powered by JP Morgan

  📅 : 11/29/2023

  💰: $120,000 ✏️ Description: Open to founders of all backgrounds, Techstars New York City powered by J.P. Morgan is designed to provide equitable access to funding and support for...

• Techstars Accelerators | Various Cities and Industries

  📅 : 11/29/2023

  💰: $120,000 ✏️ Description: In each three-month program, we help entrepreneurs find product-market fit, get traction, and access capital and mentorship. Small class sizes and a w...

• Topeka & Shawnee County Small Business Incentive Program

  📅 : 11/30/2023

  💰: n/a ✏️ Description: The for-profit business must be located in the City of Topeka or Shawnee County and less than 100 employees...

• Merchant Maverick Grant for Native American Businesses

  📅 : 11/30/2023

  💰: $10,000 ✏️ Description: Any business that is majority-owned by an official member of an American Indian or Alaskan Native group and operates on US soil is eligible to apply f...

• Workshop at Macy's

  📅 : 11/30/2023

  💰: $5,000 ✏️ Description: The Workshop at Macy’s is a 4-week intensive vendor accelerator program, dedicated exclusively to BIPOC and women-owned brands. The program is designe...

• AICPA and CPA.Com Startup Accelerator Grant Application

  📅 : 11/30/2023

  💰: $25,000 ✏️ Description: Must have a functioning product or service in the Accountech, Regtech or ESG spaces. …

• Upskilling Grant (funded by AARP)

  📅 : 11/30/2023

  💰: $2500 per employee ✏️ Description: For small businesses that intend to train and upskill low-wage workers age 50+, this grant program will reimburse employers up to $2,000-$2,500 per em...

• Stacy's Rise Project Grant

  📅 : 12/1/2023

  💰: $25,000 ✏️ Description: For women entrepreneurs - must be a for-profit U.S.-based business selling a consumer packaged good - must have at least $25,000 and no more than $1M...

• **Texas Women for the Arts Grant*

  📅 : 12/1/2023

  💰: $10,000 or more ✏️ Description: Eligible organizations include nonprofits with 501(c)3 status, governmental agencies, and religious institutions. To be eligible for consideration, t...

• New Face of Tech Challenge 2023 Grant

  📅 : 12/1/2023

  💰: $1,500 ✏️ Description: Twenty-five (25) winners will be chosen by the 1,000 Dreams Fund and announced the week of December 4, 2023....

• Aurora Tech Award

  📅 : 12/1/2023

  💰: up to $30,000 ✏️ Description: The Aurora Tech Award is an annual global prize for women founders of tech startups. The startup must be founded or co-founded and led by a woman entr...

• New Face of Tech Challenge 2023 Grant

  📅 : 12/1/2023

  💰: $1,500 ✏️ Description: Twenty-five (25) winners will be chosen by the 1,000 Dreams Fund and announced the week of December 4, 2023....

• GoodSparks Grants

  📅 : 12/3/2023

  💰: $20,000 ✏️ Description: Each successful applicant will receive a $20,000 grant to fund initiatives focused on any one of the following areas: sustainable development, health ...

• Visible Hands NYC Founder Fellowship

  📅 : 12/5/2023

  💰: $10,000 ✏️ Description: A 10-week Founder Fellowship for early-stage, underrepresented founders building high-growth, tech and tech-enabled businesses. Through this hybrid pr...

• North Sacramento Small Business Grants

  📅 : 12/5/2023

  💰: up to $30,000 ✏️ Description: Specific projects will be funded in specific locations within North Sacramento...

Newly added this week (here)

👉: About Her Culture Microgrant Micro grants are open to women of Caribbean and African descent, who are entrepreneurs, creatives an...

👉: Alexander County Business Boost Grant The Business Boost Grant program will focus on providing one-time Business Boost Grants to businesse...

👉: Baltimore Women's Giving Circle Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to nonprofit organizations that serve women of all ages and ...

👉: Because Accelerator Because Accelerator is a business accelerator program designed to help entrepreneurs take their inno...

👉: Commercial Space Rehabilitation Grant Program - Toronto The Commercial Space Rehabilitation Grant Program is available to owners and tenants of vacant prope...

👉: Fund For Teachers Fellowship Fund for Teachers’ fellowships provide support for teachers’ self-designed learning experiences. The...

👉: GoodSparks Grants Each successful applicant will receive a $20,000 grant to fund initiatives focused on any one of the...

👉: IMPACT grants Primary goal of grant is to fuel the endeavors of businesses and nonprofits that are actively making...

👉: Luzerne County Small Business Sustainability Grant The program is for for-profit businesses based in and currently operating in Luzerne County, Pennsyl...

👉: Main Street Innovation Fund - Toronto The Main Street Innovation Fund is a grant that provides funding to Business Improvement Areas (BIAs...

👉: Pittsfield Glow Up! Business Improvement Grant Small businesses owned by low- to moderate-income individuals, women, minorities, immigrants, non-na...

👉: RAISE Business Grant Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Entrepreneurs (RAISE) is a grant program that will provide ac...

👉: Rethink Ireland Entrepreneurship Impact Fund Goal of fund is to support mid-stage and mature social innovations to achieve higher levels of impac...

👉: San Marcos Minority Small Business Grants Business must be located within the corporate limits of San Marcos with less than 25 employees and a...

👉: Sephora Beauty Grant Sephora Beauty Grant will awarding one Black business owner within the beauty industry a $100,000 gr...

👉: Techstars Accelerators | Various Cities and Industries In each three-month program, we help entrepreneurs find product-market fit, get traction, and access...

👉: Techstars NYC Powered by JP Morgan Open to founders of all backgrounds, Techstars New York City powered by J.P. Morgan is designed to p...

👉: Techstarts Detroit Powered by JP Morgan The Techstars Detroit Powered by JP Morgan program is virtual/hybrid and open to all industries and ...

👉: TVFCU Idea Leap Grant TVFCU is hosting three separate Idea Leap Grant Competitions in the Chattanooga, Oconee and NW Georg...

👉: TVFCU Idea Leap Grant - Chattanooga TVFCU is hosting three separate Idea Leap Grant Competitions in the Chattanooga, Oconee and NW Georg...

👉: TVFCU Idea Leap Grant - Ococnee TVFCU is hosting three separate Idea Leap Grant Competitions in the Chattanooga, Oconee and NW Georg...

👉: Upskilling Grant (funded by AARP) For small businesses that intend to train and upskill low-wage workers age 50+, this grant program w...

👉: Vanguard Accelerator for Black and Latina businesses Must be a woman-owned business in Minneapolis or St. Paul region and be a Black, Indigenous, or Lat...

👉: Watson Institute Fellowship The Fellowship Supported by the Leslie L. Alexander Foundation is a fully-funded venture and leaders...

👉: Watson Institute Fellowship The Fellowship Supported by the Leslie L. Alexander Foundation is a fully-funded venture and leaders...

👉: ZenBusiness Free LLC Formation for Moms To help mothers take the first step toward entrepreneurship, ZenBusiness is covering business format...

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