advice pitching startup founder 
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2014
Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. What is a founder to do?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 15, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. Tags: Start-up Advice. This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. True story.)
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Dream It
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Many of these new red flags that occur during virtual pitching are easy to fix. In this Dreamit Dose, Healthtech MD Adam Dakin provides 5 simple rules to avoid giving investors the wrong impression when pitching remotely. We hear startups pitch everyday and far too often founders end up joining the meeting late.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 26, 2010
Detail Orientation / Hands On – One of the easiest ways to rule out people who are pitching to me is when they don’t know the details of their business. I once had a startup team pitch me for an investment where the President of the company led the first call with me on his own. There are easy tell-tale signs.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 3, 2011
My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16! If your first chance at being a startup founder coincides with your first child it’s really difficult for either gender. But then the truth sets in.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2010
I see way too many startup founders who don’t have experience in selling and probably don’t feel that comfortable going to customers and asking for orders. This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. And you need to watch them pitch. Tags: Startup Advice.
TechCrunch
MARCH 14, 2022
There’s a galaxy of talented and/or well-connected startup founders out there, but few have any prior fundraising experience, which levels the playing field by an inch or two. M13 invests in seed to Series A/B, so we work with founders who are pre-ideation as well as with those with strong product-market fit.
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