founder pitching transportation 
Dream It
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. It’s not about the slide deck.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? This isn’t surprising.
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This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 30, 2020
Talk to ten founders and ten different VCs and you’ll get roughly about 600 different suggestions as to how you should go about your fundraising strategy. Too often, founders look at what they’ve done so far as proof they should get funded, whereas they should really be looking at it as proof of a funding-worthy plan. What gives?
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 4, 2021
In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. Who was the team? And then I disappeared.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 21, 2011
Or the way Uber is shaking up the cozy, static world of taxi transportation. But what I do see in the market in 2011 is way too many “me too&# solutions where a bunch of founders have brainstormed a way to do a better GroupOn, a better GiltGroupe, a better Twitter or a better Quora. They pitch me features, not value.
Startup Grind
AUGUST 17, 2018
When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. International founders typically have some combination of these three reasons: a) Access to capital The number one answer is access to capital. or incorporated here to raise capital. investors.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Topics range from accessible product design and fighting algorithmic bias to the justice system, workplace organizing and support for underrepresented founders — and that’s just for starters. Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.
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