advice board education pitching 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them.
StartupNation
MAY 5, 2021
These 11 entrepreneurs share the number one piece of advice their closest mentor ever gave them: Time is the most valuable thing you have. They only asked for a quarterly board meeting ?— ?two I vividly remember his best advice: He asked about my goals, and I replied, “To earn $250,000 in commissions.” two in person.
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Gust
DECEMBER 3, 2011
And I don’t mean because they lend a credible name to an investor pitch: way too many entrepreneurs look at names on Advisory Board as just a way to expedite a raise. If that’s all you really expect of the Board, you’re cheating yourself as well as the investors before whom you dangled the names. Not really.
TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2021
The public markets get educated. I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 7, 2015
They now have a strong VC lead from Foundry Group and from experience when you get advice from Foundry it comes with authority, experience, empathy and the right amount of straight talk. I know because I have been the beneficiary of their advice for years and have appreciated it. All of my partners at Upfront do. I don’t mind.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 31, 2022
Jenny is an entrepreneur, operator, board member, advisor, and investor in tech for over 25 years. The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. I recommend thinking about your pitch in three “Sections.”. Jenny Lefcourt.
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