How I Nearly Destroyed My Reputation as an Investible Startup Founder With One Stupid Phrase

The things you say in your fundraising pitches are more impactful than you realize

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readDec 12, 2022

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I was pitching my new-ish, pre-revenue startup to a local angel investor. Because I like to know as much as possible about investors before I pitch them, I’d asked some…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com