Menashy: Founders over-prepare pitch decks and under-prepare for VC Q&A
Simon Menashy · How to Pitch a Top VC with Simon Menashy @ MMC Ventures · May 25, 2015 · at 5:09
Simon Menashy, Investment Director at MMC Ventures, discusses common pitching mistakes founders make when seeking venture capital investment.
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“I mean, honestly, I think a lot of founders make the mistake of thinking that they need to come up with a really big formal pitch. They need to fill an hour. They produce a big IM you know, and they kind of over prepare on the documentation and the format and they under prepare on just being ready for questions.”
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