ecology financing pitching venture capital 
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 10, 2023
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.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 27, 2010
Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.”
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 1, 2010
It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too.
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