Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 21, 2023
The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 29, 2020
The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 30, 2013
The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” are eliminated during due diligence.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. I funded them 8 weeks later. So why would I have talked so much about the deck in my post? The best policy is to ask.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 19, 2015
The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 25, 2010
First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don’t want to believe that we’re influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising. So even if you’re not getting funded by everybody you’re instantly on the who’s who radar of the investment world. So how does this apply to you?
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