Founders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and more VCs

How much would you donate to charity to have a private pitch meeting with your favorite venture capitalist?

Old World startups peddle their products to New World investors

Mind the Bridge held its first ever demo day where six European startups brought their ideas and products to Silicon Valley.

7 startups step out of ‘entrepreneur clubhouse’ at Founders Den demo night

At Founders Den's Spring 2013 demo event, seven founders pitch their startups to a room filled with elite investors.

Fake crowdfunding cuts through the chaos at Launch festival 2013

At the Launch festival, a new crowdfunding app serves as a buzz barometer for what the 5,000-plus attendees think of the startups as they launch out of stealth mode.

Popcorn, forest fairies, and ugly ducklings: Live from 500 Startups Demo Day

The 30+ companies from the fifth batch of 500 Startups incubator program prepare to pitch their startups to a room packed room.

Anatomy of a Demo Day: FounderFuel’s fall 2012 cohort graduates (in pictures)

You've got five minutes -- the most important five minutes of your life. Everything comes down to this.

FounderFuel Demo Day today: here are the startups

I'm in Montreal, Quebec, for FounderFuel's demo day today. Quebec is known as la belle province in Canada, and investors as well as founders are hoping to see both beautiful pitches and beautiful startups today.

Worst press release titles of 2011

Nobody sets out to write a bad press release or pitch email, or at least we hope not, and yet we still receive quite a few at VentureBeat. Actually, I would be quite sad if we stopped getting them entirely. …

Top 8 ways to annoy a tech blogger

You may think that a tech blogger’s life is a glamorous whirl of free lunches, great gadgets and being bought drinks at conferences. If so then you are probably following the wrong bloggers. In fact, it’s more like a long …

How to pitch to tech journalists

Here at VentureBeat we receive a considerable number of bad pitches, both from PR firms and from entrepreneurs themselves. To make life more tolerable for everyone, we have decided to provide some tips on how to ensure that your pitch …