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Important Updates for Startups on the PPP and the CARES Act

The CARES Act’s PPP program launched last Friday with mixed success. To guide startups through the confusion, Dreamit interviewed three leaders helping startups secure emergency funding from different perspectives as bankers, attorneys, and investors.

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Alana Hill Alana Hill

The 3 Steps of Provocation-Based Selling

COVID-19 poses unique challenges. We don’t know how long this downturn will last. But challenges create opportunities. That is the spirit of provocation-based selling. The approach flips traditional solution-based selling upside down. Luckily, the strategy can be broken down into 3 steps. 

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Charles LaCalle Charles LaCalle

How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC

What can founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors? These tips and strategies can help startups successfully pitch their product to real estate-focused venture funds.

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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. In this article, we provide some strategies for selling investors on your vision for your startup.

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Charles LaCalle Charles LaCalle

Urbantech Newsletter | 2/14/2020

Read the latest Urbantech news, learn about upcoming events, find out what’s going on in the world of real estate tech and construction tech, watch our latest #DreamitLive, and more.

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Alana Hill Alana Hill

#DreamitLive with Ron Gula: Five Slide Pitch Deck

In our most recent episode of DreamitLive, Managing Partner Steve Barsh spoke with Ron Gula, President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures. In the episode, Steve asked Ron about his “five slide pitch deck.” Ron has the investor perspective as the President of Gula Tech Adventures, but also can empathize with the founder as former founder of his own company, Tenable. Read to see what the five slides include.

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Charles LaCalle Charles LaCalle

Avoiding 5 Common Cyber Entrepreneur Pitfalls

In this #DreamitLive, Ron Gula, president of Gula Tech Ventures, joins Steve Barsh to talk about the 5 most common mistakes cyber entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them. They discuss the top mistakes Ron and many other prominent cyber investors see cyber startups making and what these startups need to focus on to not only get investment but to build a market-dominating company.

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Alana Hill Alana Hill

RaySecur Closes $3M Seed Funding Round

RaySecur (Dreamit Securetech Spring 2019) closed a $3M seed funding round. The startup’s mission is to be the first line of defense to safely detect suspicious powders and liquids, as well as conventional mail threats.

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Charles LaCalle Charles LaCalle

CISOs to Cyber Startups: Stop Making These 4 Sales Mistakes!

In this #DreamitLive, Dan Costantino, CISO at Penn Medicine, one of the largest academic medical institutions in the US, speaks with Steve Barsh to talk about the chatter in the CISO community on how cyber startups are dropping the ball and missing huge opportunities.

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Charles LaCalle Charles LaCalle

The Data Revolution in Real Estate

Real estate data is notoriously fragmented, but a new crop of startups, including Cherre, are helping businesses harness disparate data sources and gain a competitive edge. In this episode, Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman sits with L.D. Salmanson, founder of Cherre, to discuss his startup’s path to becoming a leader in real estate data.

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Charles LaCalle Charles LaCalle

Startup Equity & Funding: 5 Catastrophic Startup Mistakes

A thoughtful strategic approach to equity structure and allocation is critical for all startups. Yet, over and over again, startups often make avoidable mistakes that can have catastrophic downstream effects. In this #DreamitLive, Managing Director Adam Dakin speaks with Geoff Starr, Partner at Cooley, about five common mistakes and how to avoid them. Geoff has developed great pattern recognition, having counseled hundreds of startups on raising capital and allocating equity.

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