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Entrepreneur First starts pitch prep just one week before Demo Day

Alice Bentinck · FF 014: Making Great Founders, Idea Creation and The First 100 Days Of A Startup with Alice Bentinck, Co-Founder @ Entrepreneur First · Sep 25, 2015 · at 15:27

Alice Bentinck, co-founder of accelerator Entrepreneur First, explains EF's program structure where pitch coaching is limited to the final week before Demo Day.

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“We only start a week before our demo day at Entrepreneur First actually helping them get the pitches together.”

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Entrepreneur First begins pitch preparation with its startup cohorts only one week before Demo Day.

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Assessment

The claim is supported by public statements from Entrepreneur First leadership and official accounts from EF staff and program directors around 2015. Co-founder Alice Bentinck stated on the 20VC podcast in September 2015 that EF only begins helping founders put their pitches together one week before Demo Day to keep the focus on execution and traction. Subsequent documentation and commentary from EF program directors in late 2015 and early 2016 confirm that EF employed an intensive, compressed 1-week pitch preparation period immediately preceding Demo Day.

Alice Bentinck confirmed on The Twenty Minute VC podcast (September 2015) that Entrepreneur First begins pitch preparation with cohort founders only one week prior to Demo Day.
Official posts and documentation by Entrepreneur First program directors from 2015 and 2016 describe an intensive, compressed pitch preparation process taking place in the final week leading up to Demo Day.

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