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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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Rebuilding the California DreamĀ 

Andreessen Horowitz

There was a famous paper in, I think, 2015 that Hsieh and Enrico Moretti out of Berkeley published, where they argued quite convincingly that if we built enough housing in the Bay, in New York, and a couple of other places, American GDP would be higher by 14 percent or more.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc.

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