The Pitch Show

May 13, 2024

My Company Almost Died Multiple Times!! #founder of shipt

Bill Smith, #founder of shipt, talks about how during his #startup s series b raise, his #business ran out of money.

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May 11, 2024

Selling Your Business?! Don't Do This!! Advice From Serial Entrepreneur

Bill Smith, #founder of shipt, gives advice to #entrepreneurs for when selling a business is close. He talks about what #business owners should watch out for.

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May 10, 2024

1,000 Customer Sign-Ups Before Having A Product!! #BusinessStrategy

Bill Smith, #founder of shipt, talks about how he sold 1000 memberships for his #startup, before even having an app for his company.

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May 9, 2024

Earned $5000 a Month at 16, Skipped School, Dad Was Pissed!!

Bill Smith, #founder of shipt, talks about his #entrepreneur journey as a teenager.

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May 8, 2024

The Exit: Bill Smith Sells Shipt to Target for $550 MILLION

Since the beginning of The Pitch, we’ve told one story: what it’s like to raise money for a startup. But what about the rest of the journey? On our new segment, The Exit, we talk to startup founders who’ve done the impossible, sold their startup for hundreds of millions. How…

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May 6, 2024

Diverse AI Models For Beauty Brands! Cheaper and Faster!

Vita Mallela, #founder of the #startup Flock AI, talks how her #company solves problems of diversity in modeling for #beauty and #fashion brands through ai-generation. It takes way less time than traditional modeling and cheaper.

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May 4, 2024

Forget Ai-Generated Models?! A Better Future Here!!

Beck Bamberger, #investor at Bad Ideas Group, talks about a future where, instead of seeing ai-generated models promoting #fashion and #beauty #brands everywhere, it would be awesome to see an ai-generated version of ourselves with a slight upgrade!

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May 3, 2024

Modeling Industry Destroyed by AI ?! Diversity Solutions For Beauty and Fashion Brands!

Vita Mallela, #founder of the #startup Flock AI, talks about how difficult it is for #fashion and #beauty #brands to have diverse #models for their products in a scalable way and how #AI #modeling changes that.

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May 2, 2024

High #Customer Retention For Tech?! Forget Sales and Marketing #Tech!

Elizabeth Yin, an #investor at @HustleFund talks about how #customerretention is higher for #startup companies with an analytics play vs tech that is performance based.

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May 1, 2024

Will AI Replace Supermodels?

What if your favorite online store had models that look like you: your skin tone, your height, your body shape? That question propelled Vita Mallela to start Flock AI. Their AI generated models could help brands eliminate pricey photoshoots. But with AI startups so en vogue, how will the investors…

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April 30, 2024

#Investors SHOCKED at "AngelList For Franchises" #Startup Valuation!!

As investors hear the #valuation for a company called #FranShares, a marketplace for #franchises, they are surprised by how high their valuation is and pushes back at the #founder.

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April 29, 2024

Food #Franchises = Tiny Profit Margins!! Higher Margins With Service #Businesses!

Kenny Rose, #founder of #franshares, talks about better options for choosing franchises if you want higher #profitmargins.

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April 29, 2024

Don’t Need $1 Million to #Invest In #Franchises Anymore!!

Kenny Rose, #founder of #FranShares, talks about how people don't need to have tons of money to take part in the #franchising game. People can start with an #investment of $500.

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April 28, 2024

Better Returns Than #StockMarket?! Invest Only $500 in #Franchises?!

Kenny Rose, #founder of #franshares, talks about how investing in franchises can be a better #investment than #investing in stocks.

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April 25, 2024

#Employee Turnover Problem?! Solutions For #Franchise Businesses!

Kenny Rose, #founder of #franshares, talks about how creating ways for #employees to work their way up to more managerial positions solves employee turnover issues in #franchises. #franchisesuccess

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April 24, 2024

Which #Franchise To Trust In #Business??! Simple Answer!

Kenny Rose, #founder of #franshares, talks about how you can vet #franchises because the FTC has created regulations around the documents franchises need to provide about the business.

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April 24, 2024

Can You Invest in a Franchise?

After spending a decade as a franchise broker, Kenny Rose decided to break out on his own and start FranShares. An alternative investment platform where anyone can invest in franchises. Now you can own a piece of your local fast food joint, a medspa, even a car wash! But will…

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April 23, 2024

#Investor Says #Founder #Startup Dream Too Audacious?! Or Not Big Enough?!

Mac Conwell at Rarebreed Ventures talks about the challenging line #founders face when selling investors on their dreams for their company.

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April 22, 2024

#Investor Prejudice?! Slow Your Roll as a #Founder?!

#Investors talking about #startup #founders who can get away with selling a bigger dream and #founders who are challenged with negative #prejudice from investors when it comes to #valuation and dreams.

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April 21, 2024

#StartupCompany Growth Problems?! #Investors Solution

Mac Conwell at Rarebreed Ventures shares how #investors can help with #startup #company growth issues

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April 19, 2024

#Tampon Kits for Tweens! How To Prep Your #Tweens First #Period

Beck Bamberger an #investor with Bad Ideas Group, showing samples from #RedDrop, a #startup company that sells products for a girl's first period.

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April 18, 2024

#Branding Secrets! #Investor Tells Lessons From Cereal and Millennials

Beck: There's something very smart about getting in at an impressionable age. How many #millennials will eat a bowl of cereal that they ate when they were ten years old? Why? Because it's ingrained in you. Like I will eat a bowl of Life cereal if you put it in…

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April 17, 2024

Bootstrapping to $5 MILLION | RedDrop: Black Owned & Women Owned

Founder Monica Williams wants to revolutionize the period experience for tweens with her startup, RedDrop. She already has $5 million in sales – but she’s up against a lot. Not just that VCs are hesitant about consumer products, but her own hesitancy to pitch the big vision for her company.…

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April 16, 2024

Christianity is a Shrinking Market?! Not According to #christiantok

Statistically there are more Gen Zs that have converted to Christianity than there have been Millennials and the prior generation. So it's a little bit of a myth in America that faith is decreasing. God is up and to the right Hockey stick growth. The Gen Z Christian community on…

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