The Lone Wolf: Does My Startup Need a Co-Founder?

The Lone Wolf: Does My Startup Need a Co-Founder?

I was speaking with a budding young entrepreneur recently who I’ll call “Wolf,” and this was one of the many good questions he asked me about a venture he’d like to start: “I keep hearing that I need a co-founder, but there’s no one that I really want to work with. I...
Pitching Investors: Anatomy of Pitch Deck

Pitching Investors: Anatomy of Pitch Deck

I’ll teaching the latest in my series of classes on pitching investors there on March 19th, Pitching Investors: The Anatomy of a Pitch Deck. Have you started putting together a pitch deck, but don’t know where to start? Unsure of how to describe what you do?...
The Agony of “What Am I Supposed to Wear to an Investor Pitch?!”

The Agony of “What Am I Supposed to Wear to an Investor Pitch?!”

I was having lunch with a woman recently who I’ll call “Dior.” Dior has been a senior executive in a number of large media corporations and is now starting her own company and thinking about outside funding. We’d been having a lively conversation on different startup...