Having problems grasping the fundamentals of selling your concept to investors? You're not alone. According to Tech Crunch, in 2022, venture capitalists spent on average 2 minutes and 42 seconds ...

So, you want to craft a great investor pitch deck. You want to come up with something authentic to what you are building, but also informed by past successes. Hell, you probably want to avoid common ...

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I didn't have a co-founder, prior exits or a deep-pocketed network. I still raised a $1.5 million seed round. Here's how I ...

If you’re a company founder, you’ve likely engaged in one of the most high-stakes, stressful steps of entrepreneurship: the investor pitch. No matter how much time, energy, and effort you pour into ...

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Have you ever sent a cold pitch email to an investor only to wait in silence for a response? You are not alone, but the reason may not be as simple as the investor not being interested in your company ...

There’s a moment in an investor pitch meeting when you just know you nailed it. Does it happen often? Likely not. But when it does, the signs will be there. And you can feel it in subtle ways. Like ...

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At the end of our pitch, and with an offer from each shark, we shook hands with Robert Herjavec, accepting his deal, which was exactly what we asked for ($150,000 for 15 percent of our business).