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Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Project’s $125k pre-seed deck

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It was against that backdrop that I received the pitch deck for the Palau Project. Slide 5] The Palau Project’s product is super simple, but the power will be in the data. Image Credits: The Palau Project. There’s a reason for that, so let’s take a closer look at what could be improved in Palau’s pitch.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising beyond the Bay Area, web3 gaming, TDD prep checklist

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Pitch Deck Teardown: The Palau Project’s $125k pre-seed deck. Image Credits: Palau Project (opens in a new window). To raise money for The Palau Project, an app that lets users find the environmental impact and nutritional benefits of packaged food, founder Jerome Cloetens put together a 22-slide deck with a $500,000 goal.

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Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, Meta’s in trouble and it’s time to admit self-driving cars ain’t gonna happen

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Project. Haje usually passes on tearing down pre-seed rounds, but he went for it this week with the Palau Project, which was founded by professional kite-surfer Jerome Cloetens, who is taking on climate change. .’s new prime minister will live up to the hype he’s received from the crypto community.

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Guam and the Consortium

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The Consortium is made up of six island nations, commonwealths or territories: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia (including Chuuk and Pohnpei), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.

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I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks. These are the most common mistakes

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Examples of decks that get this wrong: Palau Project’s $125K pre-seed deck. Glambook’s $2.5M Front’s $65M Series D deck. Rokoko’s $3M strategic extension deck. Vori’s $10M Series A deck. Boxedup’s $2.3M Wilco’s $7M seed deck. Glambook’s $2.5M Mi Terro’s $1.5M Helu.io’s $9.8M

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

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The Disability Rights Advocacy Fund did just that when it awarded $20,000 to Palau-based Omekesang. on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and disability-inclusive development efforts in Palau. These funds helped build organizational capacity to lead the implementation of the UN Convention?on

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Three more from the TC+ team: The first angel deck teardown to date : Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Project’s $125K pre-seed deck , by Haje. Tomorrow, we’ll run his detailed TDD checklist. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. So, er, what’s happening in Q3?

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