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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 21, 2023
The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be βCan everyone hear me, and read the screen?β Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Research your audience before presenting.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2011
No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.β It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. All we have to do is get 1% of the market.β
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 30, 2013
The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be βCan everyone hear me, and read the screen?β Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Research your audience before presenting. Marty Zwilling.
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 βinvestors fund people, not ideas.β are eliminated during due diligence.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 29, 2020
The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be βCan everyone hear me, and read the screen?β Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Research your audience before presenting.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
As by now you likely know they had a brief discussion about public markets including about whether Uber should go public. And honestly it was the single biggest roadblock at Upfront when we raised out fourth fund in 2011. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?”
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 24, 2012
Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. Remember the old adage that βinvestors fund people, not ideas.β
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