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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

My impression is that most entrepreneurs aren’t always putting their best foot forward. Just like story beats in a movie script, which is meant to evoke responses from the audience, a story in the context of pitching to investors should consist of certain beats that are meant to elicit their reaction.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

Many pre-funding startups – the primary audience of Lean – are built on nights and weekends by entrepreneurs who are driven by a need to change the world. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. But I don’t believe that startups, by definition, need to move as fast as possible.