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Pitching Requires Emotional Storytelling, Not the Standard VC Metrics Template
“So we need to become great storytellers, and that never, never, never Fits the templates that the VCs want to see. Why? Because the VCs want to punch all the metrics into a spreadsheet and judge you coldly and rationally. The best thing that we can do is grab …”
Experienced Product Builders Should Bootstrap Instead of Raising Capital
“If you're a great product person, so if you've spent five or seven or 10 years building tech startup products, then your greatest skill and your most likely path to market is to bootstrap and build your own product.”
Non-Technical Founders Waste Time Seeking Co-Founders Before Validating Ideas
“Many non-technical entrepreneurs spend a lot of time going to meetups trying to find that potential technical co-founder. So that wastes a whole chunk of time, and then potentially when they start to build out their product team they might spend several 100,00…”
Recruit Technical Co-Founders by Framing Business Goals as Programming Challenges
“They don't see generally, they don't see business problems as nearly as interesting as great mathematical or logical or programming problems. And so I encourage people to break their business goal and their customer aspiration and the journey of their business…”
The Primary Purpose of a Startup Pitch Is Securing Follow-Up Discussions
“The purpose of a great pitch is to begin a discussion, right? So, even a Y Combinator Termsheets happen after the pitch, right? They happen in the discussion one-on-one, in the room when everybody's mingling, and more typically in markets outside of Silicon Va…”