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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

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She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. 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. I’m a female founder.

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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Best Business Advice

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If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital.

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Since there''s no way to both make yourself accessible and not get a fire hose of inbound, most of the pitches you''re going to have are from perfectly nice, smart people who have perfectly horrific, unworkable ideas. 2) People pitch you. Sometimes, you get contacted by certifiably crazy people who have perfectly legitimate ideas.

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A Tale of Two Pitches

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This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. A Tale of Two Pitches. is important.

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The Quality You Never Hear Pitched When People Want in to Venture Capital

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So I asked a few founders that I've worked with and they mentioned a word that struck me--because I've never heard any of the hordes of people in my inbox asking for internships, VC job recommendations and advice, etc. mention about themselves. Generosity. No one ever tells me how generous they are, or shows it.

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Here Are the Details About Upfront Ventures’ Newest EIR – @Chamillionaire

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And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. When you see pitch after pitch – what works and what doesn’t – you start to get a sense of patterns of business model approaches, go-to-market strategies and the like.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. This is part of a series on fund-raising advice for entrepreneurs and VCs. Why you should never have a data room?—?the Wait, there’s more!

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