I Couldn’t Raise Venture Capital Until I Learned One Simple Lesson About Pitching Investors

You can spend hours learning to give great fundraising pitches, but you’re probably wasting your time

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readJun 1, 2021

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I spent five years trying to close my first round of institutional (i.e. venture capital) financing. Sure, before that I’d successfully raised…

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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