Mehrotra: Pitch memo feedback should come from adjacent-stage investors
Shishir Mehrotra · The Highs and Lows of Fundraising from Founders That Have Raised $1B w/ Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly · Nov 17, 2021 · at 48:47
Shishir Mehrotra (co-founder and CEO of Coda) shares a tactic for refining pitch decks and investment memos.
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“One is, when you're pitching take advice from people one stage investors that are one stage forward or back from wherever you're pitching. Just go, you know, you're pitching people for a normal B. Go, go talk to a few people that would normally be C and D raisers. Show them this is the investment memo I'm pre-writing. What do you think? And they'll, they'll know they're not in the market for it, and they'll give you real advice.”
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