Internalize Your Investor Pitch: Why and How
The Dangers of Memorization Many entrepreneurs attempt to memorize their investor pitch as part of their pitch preparation. They write ...
Tag: Venture Capital
Doing the Startup Smoke and Mirrors Dance
Oftentimes, a magician uses "smoke and mirrors" to make something disappear, right before your eyes. With early-stage entrepreneurs, "smoke and ...
How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?
Two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. You ...
Should VCs Start Crowdshaming Sh-tty Startups?
Like most VCs, I get carpet bombed with pitches almost non-stop. They can range from the benign and harmless pitches ...
The Gender Gap in the World of Venture Capital
MIT student Erica Swallow is finding out how unwelcoming the world of venture capital can be for women. She discusses ...
How to Start a Startup: What You Really Need to Know
I was doing some keyword research on Google looking for topics that entrepreneurs were looking for answers to, and the ...
Startup Investing, Temperament and Patience
"Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with a 130 IQ. Once ...
#NYCtech Week in Review
With so much going on in the city’s thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in ...
Corporate VC Funds, Accelerators and Incubators
With the explosion of corporate-backed venture capital funds, accelerators and incubators in the last couple of years, I think the ...
Make Sure Your Startup Domain is Investor Friendly
We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share ...