Dream It
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. Strategies for crafting a strong and compelling vision for your startup: Towards the end of your pitch, tell investors that “this is just the beginning” for your startup. It’s not about the slide deck.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. For all we know, white men make 99% of the pitches. I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 17, 2023
A lot of entrepreneurs are incredible idea generators and hackers; they have a knack for seeing something that’s broken or something that could be better and creating a solution around that. Your company could very easily be put out of business if an incumbent adds your product as a feature of theirs.
TechCrunch
JUNE 3, 2022
Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Founders pitched carriers a tech-forward relationship with the customer, focusing on: Just over five years ago, the insurance industry entered the crosshairs of the tech world.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? Hard Problems I encourage entrepreneurs to try and tackle harder problems even if it makes fund raising more difficult and is less likely to succeed.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 12, 2021
It’s in our national interests to make becoming an entrepreneur as egalitarian as possible. This doesn’t take anything away from the brilliant white male entrepreneurs that have built incredible companies, but it has made an equivalent crowd of Black founders almost nonexistent. China, not the U.S., seemed the place to do that.
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