On Startup Failure…

On Startup Failure…

A young entrepreneur (let’s call him “Turk”) approached me at an event recently, and he had an interesting dilemma. “I’m starting a new venture,” he said. “And I think it’s really good. But how do I make sure I’ve put together all the right pieces so I don’t fail?…”...
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...