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This Article About Andy Dunn and Bonobos is the Blueprint for Founder Storytelling

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I just read an article about Bonobos --or was it a press release. The Coveteur article featuring Andy and Bonobos encapsulated exactly how a founder worth writing about will act: ".He That's why it's not surprising that you could take this whole article, which is mostly Andy telling his story, and use it to craft your narrative.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

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Last week, there was a Business Insider article measuring the percent of female founded companies that NYC seed funds invest in. The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures came in first, with a whopping 61%.

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#DreamitLive with Ron Gula: Five Slide Pitch Deck

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In the episode, Steve asked Ron about his “five slide pitch deck.” Read Ron’s article on his five slide pitch deck here. In our most recent episode of DreamitLive , Managing Partner Steve Barsh spoke with Ron Gula , President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

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This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. On top of that, the article comes with a chart--this chart to the left entited "Fewer Bets". The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. There is no fork.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd.

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In Defense of Uber: An Unbiased Opinion

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This article had much resonance with me. ” Ironic that an article purporting to uncover a company with no training would publish pseudo journalism about the Uber experience. I was at the first pitch meeting they ever did to raise capital. If you interview the neighbors of Airbnb you’d get a very different article.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I have sat through countless pitches with Ivy League grads spewing off intellectual descriptions of the details of their product or service and why it will win in the market. In a VC pitch this type of messaging will do just fine. Sure, she could pitch it as a P2P marketplace.