Concord Business Plans - Pitch Deck ExamplesWanda Halpert
Deck with sample slides from actual pitch deck client work. We have completed over 800 business plans and pitch decks that have raised more than $2.5 Billion for our clients.
Primer on raising seed capital for first time and experienced startup founders and employees. In this slideshare, I provide insight into the following questions:
-What is seed capital?
-Why should I raise?
-What is the current state of the seed market.
-Who invets in startups?
-How do I prepare?
-What is the close process?
-What are some useful resources?
A pitch deck is a brief presentation providing your audience a quick overview of your business. With regards to startups, founders are pitching for funding from angel investors and VCs. This can occur at various stages, but typically happens when cash becomes a constraint to your growth. The deck is a vehicle to either get to the first meeting or a follow-up to an interested investor. These slides are my advice on what early stage startups should consider to include when pitching to investors.
An introduction to the service portfolio of Blue Ocean Solutions (BlueOS) marketing consultancy that focuses on Inbound marketing and technology go-to-market strategy development & implementation.
What investors are looking for in your pitch deck Infocrest
For raising money for your business, having an
impressive pitch deck is an essential component. A great pitch deck gets potential investors excited about your idea and
engages them in a conversation about your business,
hopefully leading to investment. What are the key elements investors are looking in your pitch deck? Here is the answer
"An Introduction to Proptech is China" is a research paper published by MetaProp and Columbia University's Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE). The research findings delve deep into the dynamic growth of PropTech startups and venture capital activities in China.
The author of the report is Alice Guo, a student at Columbia’s MSRED Program and a Venture Fellow at MetaProp, with special thank you to Patrice Derrington, Aaron Block, Leila Collins, Deedee Chong, Xinyi Wang, and Yilu Zou.
Why do companies need to manage the entire customer experience? New analysis reveals that the entire customer journey - the series of interactions with a brand - is more important than any single touchpoint experience. Leading companies identify and effectively manage a few "key journeys." When companies perfect managing the entire customer journey, they reap significant benefits—including enhanced customer and employee satisfaction, reduced customer churn, increased revenue, lower costs, improved organizational collaboration, and competitive advantage. Presented at the Harvard Business Review webinar. For more on customer decision journeys: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/customer-decision-journey
Pitch deck we are using to raise $6m for Veeqo from VCsMatt Warren
We have just started the process of raising a $6m (£4m) funding round for Veeqo, and I wanted to share the pitch deck we are using for this.
Veeqo is SaaS startup focused on helping retail brands sell and ship everywhere.
We took (deep) inspiration from the Front pitch deck for this (thanks Mathilde Collin!). Two weeks in, and following 12 meetings, we’ve had some really positive feedback from VCs and progressing to next steps with all of them.
Going into the process I really didn’t know what to expect. I had a fear that our traction or growth was not impressive enough compared the stories you read on TechCrunch. The reality is we have been so heads-down and self-critical over the last few years, we didn't have a clue how well we were doing.
Turns out, pretty good - lots of nice comments so far, but I await to see the terms sheets :-)
Prior to any face-to-face meeting with VCs, I always send over all the other documents that make up our investor pack. I prefer they have everything in advance, so that we’re not wasting each other's time.
The documents I always include are:
1/ Our go-to market strategy (slides)
2/ Product Roadmap (slides)
3/ 3-year financial forecast (giant Excel sheet)
I found it interesting that whilst all VC care about the key things like market size, team, product etc, that each VC has a bias to one area.
For example, so far only one VC has had a strong bias towards product and roadmap. A few were focused on the market and its TAM, and a few others on commercials and the business’s ability to scale.
I invested about a week to create the investor pack, and had a lot of support from key members of my team. It was a great exercise anyway to review our current strategy and progress to date.
Concord Business Plans - Pitch Deck ExamplesWanda Halpert
Deck with sample slides from actual pitch deck client work. We have completed over 800 business plans and pitch decks that have raised more than $2.5 Billion for our clients.
Primer on raising seed capital for first time and experienced startup founders and employees. In this slideshare, I provide insight into the following questions:
-What is seed capital?
-Why should I raise?
-What is the current state of the seed market.
-Who invets in startups?
-How do I prepare?
-What is the close process?
-What are some useful resources?
A pitch deck is a brief presentation providing your audience a quick overview of your business. With regards to startups, founders are pitching for funding from angel investors and VCs. This can occur at various stages, but typically happens when cash becomes a constraint to your growth. The deck is a vehicle to either get to the first meeting or a follow-up to an interested investor. These slides are my advice on what early stage startups should consider to include when pitching to investors.
An introduction to the service portfolio of Blue Ocean Solutions (BlueOS) marketing consultancy that focuses on Inbound marketing and technology go-to-market strategy development & implementation.
What investors are looking for in your pitch deck Infocrest
For raising money for your business, having an
impressive pitch deck is an essential component. A great pitch deck gets potential investors excited about your idea and
engages them in a conversation about your business,
hopefully leading to investment. What are the key elements investors are looking in your pitch deck? Here is the answer
"An Introduction to Proptech is China" is a research paper published by MetaProp and Columbia University's Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE). The research findings delve deep into the dynamic growth of PropTech startups and venture capital activities in China.
The author of the report is Alice Guo, a student at Columbia’s MSRED Program and a Venture Fellow at MetaProp, with special thank you to Patrice Derrington, Aaron Block, Leila Collins, Deedee Chong, Xinyi Wang, and Yilu Zou.
Why do companies need to manage the entire customer experience? New analysis reveals that the entire customer journey - the series of interactions with a brand - is more important than any single touchpoint experience. Leading companies identify and effectively manage a few "key journeys." When companies perfect managing the entire customer journey, they reap significant benefits—including enhanced customer and employee satisfaction, reduced customer churn, increased revenue, lower costs, improved organizational collaboration, and competitive advantage. Presented at the Harvard Business Review webinar. For more on customer decision journeys: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/customer-decision-journey
Pitch deck we are using to raise $6m for Veeqo from VCsMatt Warren
We have just started the process of raising a $6m (£4m) funding round for Veeqo, and I wanted to share the pitch deck we are using for this.
Veeqo is SaaS startup focused on helping retail brands sell and ship everywhere.
We took (deep) inspiration from the Front pitch deck for this (thanks Mathilde Collin!). Two weeks in, and following 12 meetings, we’ve had some really positive feedback from VCs and progressing to next steps with all of them.
Going into the process I really didn’t know what to expect. I had a fear that our traction or growth was not impressive enough compared the stories you read on TechCrunch. The reality is we have been so heads-down and self-critical over the last few years, we didn't have a clue how well we were doing.
Turns out, pretty good - lots of nice comments so far, but I await to see the terms sheets :-)
Prior to any face-to-face meeting with VCs, I always send over all the other documents that make up our investor pack. I prefer they have everything in advance, so that we’re not wasting each other's time.
The documents I always include are:
1/ Our go-to market strategy (slides)
2/ Product Roadmap (slides)
3/ 3-year financial forecast (giant Excel sheet)
I found it interesting that whilst all VC care about the key things like market size, team, product etc, that each VC has a bias to one area.
For example, so far only one VC has had a strong bias towards product and roadmap. A few were focused on the market and its TAM, and a few others on commercials and the business’s ability to scale.
I invested about a week to create the investor pack, and had a lot of support from key members of my team. It was a great exercise anyway to review our current strategy and progress to date.
The Pitch Process: Turning client briefs into great ideas, then selling themBeyond
As clients have more customers, stakeholders and channels than ever, briefs are getting more confusing; lacking focus, strategy and asking for the "moon on a stick". As the agency, it's getting harder to know where to focus with our ideas and strategy, then sell it effectively. This presentation was originally delivered at Miami Ad School's New York campus as part of the "Industry Heroes" lecture series.
A reproduction of the official pitch deck template recommended by leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THESE PITCH DECK EXAMPLES & TEMPLATES:
> Airbnb pitch deck @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/airbnb-pitch-deck
> Sequoia Capital pitch deck template @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/sequoia-capital-pitch-deck
> FREE pitch deck template download @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/free-pitch-deck-template
> Pitch deck guide with hints, tips, and a worked example @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template
NEED HELP WITH YOUR PITCH DECK?
See how I can help then book a free call @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/
MORE PITCH DECK RESOURCES @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template#resources
A Repeatable Process for Crafting Perfectly Personalized EmailsSales Hacker
Writing a good personalized email is kind of like building out the perfect March Madness bracket, or selecting your own numbers for the next big lottery ticket. With email reply rates below 1% these days, the odds are incredibly stacked against you.
Check this deck to learn from Josh Braun and Ryan O’Hara how to create a repeatable process for creating personalized emails that will lead to double digit reply rates and more booked meetings.
Presentation from Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of Arafura Ventures, and author of "Inside Silicon Valley: How the deals get done," with a slide-by-slide approach to developing your pitch deck -- using examples from real-life winning pitch decks.
Check out sample essential pitch deck slides for: .
- Mission/Vision
- Problem/Solution
- Market size
- IP
- Financial projections
- Management team
- and more!
Sponsored by Early Growth Financial Services and Cooley.
Download this at bestpitch.es/yc-pitch-deck
The prestigious Y-Combinator accelerator program is known for being the launchpad for countless billion-dollar "unicorn" startups over the last decade, such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Instacart, Twitch, & many more.
A few years ago, the YC team released an (extremely) simple pitch deck template to help guide founders, based on what worked for decades of YC startups.
While not every founder can present their pitch deck in as simple terms as the likes of Airbnb & other YC stand-outs, their template is nevertheless a fantastic starting point for framing a winning investor presentation.
This adapted version of the YC Pitch Deck template was crafted for founders seeking to win funding &/or investment for their early-stage startups. Our team of experts added a professional design touch to the YC pitch deck formula, while preserving their focus on simplicity — something we have first-hand experience with, having consulted for several YC alums over the last 5+ years.
Available at bestpitch.es/yc-pitch-deck
Adapted from ycombinator.com/library/2u-how-to-build-your-seed-round-pitch-deck
Lessons we learned from designing 30+ pitch decksVisual Hackers
Everyone has their own way of communicating and this is reflected in the way they formulate their pitch deck structure. In all these journeys, we’ve learned a series of lessons that we want to share with you today, based on real-life decks we've helped build.
Summary presentation of the critically acclaimed book on venture capital and entrepreneurship by Flybridge general partner Jeff Bussgang (www.jeffbussgang.com)
Marketplaces are one of the main online shopping destinations for consumers. Now present in all regions of the world, marketplaces have fundamentally changed the commerce landscape, the way we shop, and how businesses go to market with their products and services. And although marketplaces are based on the same concept of first- and third-party selling, they are vastly different from each other. But how do brands accelerate growth? And what are the requirements for success
The Ultimate Investor Pitch Deck TemplateCrowdfunder
Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their startup.
There’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.
In short, this formula involves crafting a larger story / narrative, while speaking directly to what investors are looking for and need to know about you, your company, your market, and your plan.
This is a rough draft of our pre-seed pitch deck. We received a lot of great feedback on it, and in hindsight, would have included many more screens of our early product in the deck. Regardless, we were successful in raising $1M in Seed funding and hopefully it's useful to other entrepreneurs as a reference point!
Meet DoggyHut – A totally awesome and fictional startup
DoggyHut is a fictional startup invented by Iskender Dirik, a VC and entrepreneur. Based on Iskender's years of being pitched by startups, he built what he sees as the ideal pitch deck, containing the key elements needed to persuade a VC, but in the compact and focused form factor that he has seen achieve the best results.
This deck is intended to be emailed or handed over to a VC for them to review. This is not a presentation deck, which should feature far less text and information.
You could download the pitch deck in high resolution under:
www.bit.ly/doggyhut
The Pitch Process: Turning client briefs into great ideas, then selling themBeyond
As clients have more customers, stakeholders and channels than ever, briefs are getting more confusing; lacking focus, strategy and asking for the "moon on a stick". As the agency, it's getting harder to know where to focus with our ideas and strategy, then sell it effectively. This presentation was originally delivered at Miami Ad School's New York campus as part of the "Industry Heroes" lecture series.
A reproduction of the official pitch deck template recommended by leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THESE PITCH DECK EXAMPLES & TEMPLATES:
> Airbnb pitch deck @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/airbnb-pitch-deck
> Sequoia Capital pitch deck template @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/sequoia-capital-pitch-deck
> FREE pitch deck template download @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/free-pitch-deck-template
> Pitch deck guide with hints, tips, and a worked example @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template
NEED HELP WITH YOUR PITCH DECK?
See how I can help then book a free call @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/
MORE PITCH DECK RESOURCES @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template#resources
A Repeatable Process for Crafting Perfectly Personalized EmailsSales Hacker
Writing a good personalized email is kind of like building out the perfect March Madness bracket, or selecting your own numbers for the next big lottery ticket. With email reply rates below 1% these days, the odds are incredibly stacked against you.
Check this deck to learn from Josh Braun and Ryan O’Hara how to create a repeatable process for creating personalized emails that will lead to double digit reply rates and more booked meetings.
Presentation from Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of Arafura Ventures, and author of "Inside Silicon Valley: How the deals get done," with a slide-by-slide approach to developing your pitch deck -- using examples from real-life winning pitch decks.
Check out sample essential pitch deck slides for: .
- Mission/Vision
- Problem/Solution
- Market size
- IP
- Financial projections
- Management team
- and more!
Sponsored by Early Growth Financial Services and Cooley.
Download this at bestpitch.es/yc-pitch-deck
The prestigious Y-Combinator accelerator program is known for being the launchpad for countless billion-dollar "unicorn" startups over the last decade, such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Instacart, Twitch, & many more.
A few years ago, the YC team released an (extremely) simple pitch deck template to help guide founders, based on what worked for decades of YC startups.
While not every founder can present their pitch deck in as simple terms as the likes of Airbnb & other YC stand-outs, their template is nevertheless a fantastic starting point for framing a winning investor presentation.
This adapted version of the YC Pitch Deck template was crafted for founders seeking to win funding &/or investment for their early-stage startups. Our team of experts added a professional design touch to the YC pitch deck formula, while preserving their focus on simplicity — something we have first-hand experience with, having consulted for several YC alums over the last 5+ years.
Available at bestpitch.es/yc-pitch-deck
Adapted from ycombinator.com/library/2u-how-to-build-your-seed-round-pitch-deck
Lessons we learned from designing 30+ pitch decksVisual Hackers
Everyone has their own way of communicating and this is reflected in the way they formulate their pitch deck structure. In all these journeys, we’ve learned a series of lessons that we want to share with you today, based on real-life decks we've helped build.
Summary presentation of the critically acclaimed book on venture capital and entrepreneurship by Flybridge general partner Jeff Bussgang (www.jeffbussgang.com)
Marketplaces are one of the main online shopping destinations for consumers. Now present in all regions of the world, marketplaces have fundamentally changed the commerce landscape, the way we shop, and how businesses go to market with their products and services. And although marketplaces are based on the same concept of first- and third-party selling, they are vastly different from each other. But how do brands accelerate growth? And what are the requirements for success
The Ultimate Investor Pitch Deck TemplateCrowdfunder
Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their startup.
There’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.
In short, this formula involves crafting a larger story / narrative, while speaking directly to what investors are looking for and need to know about you, your company, your market, and your plan.
This is a rough draft of our pre-seed pitch deck. We received a lot of great feedback on it, and in hindsight, would have included many more screens of our early product in the deck. Regardless, we were successful in raising $1M in Seed funding and hopefully it's useful to other entrepreneurs as a reference point!
Meet DoggyHut – A totally awesome and fictional startup
DoggyHut is a fictional startup invented by Iskender Dirik, a VC and entrepreneur. Based on Iskender's years of being pitched by startups, he built what he sees as the ideal pitch deck, containing the key elements needed to persuade a VC, but in the compact and focused form factor that he has seen achieve the best results.
This deck is intended to be emailed or handed over to a VC for them to review. This is not a presentation deck, which should feature far less text and information.
You could download the pitch deck in high resolution under:
www.bit.ly/doggyhut
To land your dream job in a creative role, there’s nothing more important than the interview. Job interviews showcase your talent and expertise—and your ability to think on your feet. So how do you make sure you’re prepared?
Networking for job interviews
Crafting an effective resume and creative portfolio
Researching the company and position
Dressing for a job interview
Bringing the right materials
Knowing your long-term goals
Asking about next steps
Following up with the interviewer
Staying positive and confident
Explore L&D trends and insights for 2015. Kineo US leaders Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design, and Chip Cleary, VP of Solutions and Consulting, discuss top tips for adding business value to your learning strategy this year.
Presentation at the CRB Board of Directors meetings held February 12, 2009 in Chicago, IL at the National Association of REALTORS headquarters.
Presentation includes summary information taken from Generation Y research and surveys conducted January 2009 by the Company CEO, Inc.
2. Goals
• Learn how to create the company “story”
• Understand what it takes to do effective outreach and how
to do it using tools & your networks
• Manage agencies
• Run an effective process
• New Recruiting Applications and Services
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4. Telling the Story(s):
• The Market Story:
• Why does the company exist and what’s the potential?
• The Technology Story:
• How is the product built? What interesting, challenging?
• The Relevance Story:
• Why it should matter to them and why they fit?
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5. • Consistent and aggressive with direct outreach (100 rule)
• Building referrals & making recruiting part of the culture
• Running a great process
• Closing
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6. The 100 Rule
• The 100 Rule
• 1 Offer Requires 10-15 Candidates
• 10-15 Candidates Requires contacting a 100 targeted
potentials (10-15% Conversion)
• That’s work the more outreach the more flow you
generate
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7. Building Pipeline: Direct Outreach
• Potential Employees want to hear from you, not recruiters
• Learn to Love LinkedIn & Coffee
• Upgrade accounts
• Target the “right” people
• Do your homework – linkedin, github, twitter, blogs, stack
• Understand their risk profile, passions, interests
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8. Building Pipeline: Direct Outreach
• Keep it short, sexy but personalized
• Who cares – why what you’re working on is important
(vision)
• Who’s involved – don’t be afraid to name drop
• Why the role is Relevant – play to their interests & passion
• Why their experience/interests/passion is interesting to you
• Build a connection even if they’re not available right now
• Invite for coffee just to chat
• Get them on the nurturing event invite list
• DON’T INCLUDE THE JOB DESCRIPTION
• Expect @20% Response Rate
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9. Building Pipeline: Leveraging Networks
• Building out the Dream Team list
• 1st Degree: Schoolmates, former coworkers, groups (open
source contributors, professional certification groups), panels
conferences
• Everyone that’s great, regardless of if they’re looking
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10. Leveraging Networks: Referrals
• Tapping Team Members:
• Simple as ordering food and inviting teams to give names of
great people
• Must systematically go through their networks
• Universities, career history, groups/associations
• Automate it
• Make it part of the new-hire process
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11. Building Pipeline: Leveraging Networks
• Interviewing vs Romancing your Dream Team
• Who can you get into process right now
• How do you deal with passive candidates
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12. Building Pipeline: Leveraging Networks
• Frequent Nurturing Events
• Monthly Open House/Happy Hour at the Office or Local Spot
• Tech Talks: Leverage an investors, friend, former professor
• Hack-a-thon, Design-a-thon
• Sporting event, concert, bay to breakers
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13. Building Pipeline: Leveraging Networks
• Make sure to
• Get people into your space, see your style
• Introduce them to the “right” people
• Have them feel what it’s like to be part of the team
• Avoid the hard sell
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14. Building Pipeline: Leveraging Networks
• Alumni Mailing Lists & Events
• Open-Source Projects
• Groups/Meetups – SigChi, OWASP,
Apache, Scala
• Meetup.com – directory for local
groups
• Host a Meetup
• If a group or Meetup doesn’t exist -
make one
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15. Building Pipeline: Managing Agencies
• Don’t
• Work with every agency under the sun
• Screw them on fees
• Do
• Give them the “tools” they need – time & direction
• Help them calibrate
• Listen to feedback
• Cut them if they’re not improving
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16. Candidate Experience: Killers
• Time in process
• Clock is ticking from initial intro or connection
• Treat employee referrals like gold
• Lumpy communication
• Follow-up immediately
• Missing interviews or being left waiting
• Not paying complete attention – checking phone/email
• Inconsistent expectations between interviewers, candidates
• People that don’t what the hell they’re talking about
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17. Candidate Experience: Process
• Scope the position’s role and responsibilities
• Build in growth
• Pick the interview team and communicate expectations
• Evaluate Consistently
• Phone Screen, Interview I, II
• Debrief
• If you’re not excited don’t hire
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18. Candidate Experience: Offers
• Making Comp Recommendations
1. Employee’s comp history – discuss early
2. Expectations/Motivations (equity vs cash)
3. Industry benchmarks
4. Competing offers
5. Internal comparisons
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19. Candidate Experience: Pre-Closing
• Ask them about their decision making process
• Role expectations, quality of the team – address during
interviews
• Know their timeline
• Try and take money out of the equation
• Speak to career growth, developing new skills, learning
from mentors
• Don’t make it a “job” but part of the success of the company
• Ask questions throughout the process
• How excited are they about the position?
• How does it compare to their other opportunities?
• If we could agree on terms would you take the offer?
• When can you start?
• Don’t badmouth other offers or companies – petty & desperate
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20. Candidate Experience: Closing
• Figure out the best person to deliver the offer
• Hiring manager or CEO
• Have a “confidant”
• Typically the recruiter, someone that can discuss the details
of the offer while still being removed from the negotiation
• Deadlines?
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21. Candidate Experience: Re-closing
• Mentally prepare the candidate for a counter offer
• Strengthen their resolve
• Stay connected, it’s not done until they show up
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22. Appendix: Tools
• LinkedIn – still the only essential recruiting tool
• Startups that are doing interesting things:
• WhiteTruffle, TalentBin, Entelo, Gild, Developer Auction
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25. Matching algorithm
It’s a data game
Tags (relevancy) Behavior (intent)
Extracted tags from candidates &
Matching
Convert actions taken on
Whitetruffle
companies profiles and other
by companies & candidates to
sources available.
knowledge to improve matching.
Matching score
Human validation
Match is released
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LI recruiter has broadened their offereing to include marketing campaings and targeted advertisting at perespective candidates. They’ve added a pipeline tool to better track status and search. It’s still pretty early in it’s development so there are a few things to still figure out.
2. WhitetruffleIs using data and machine learning tactics to match individual and companies. Their algorthm learns over time based on the candidates that companies select who to show them in the future. It also does the same thing for active candidates in the system.
Gild wants to demystify gitbhub by showing you:How good a developer is at each languageUndersatnd years of experience Determine influence in developer communities. Go to slides
Entelo believes there is. Patent pending algorithm that analyzes over 70 variables to predict if a passive candidate is going to become active. This will be what really definies their company. They have search and it works well. Did a quick search on scala – new programming language
Gild wants to demystify gitbhub by showing you:How good a developer is at each languageUndersatnd years of experience Determine influence in developer communities. Go to slides