On a blog post on his Medium-based Andy Sparks posted a list of pitch decks that he has collected in a blog post: “All the Public Startup Pitch Decks in One Place“.  Here are a couple of pitch decks that Andy catalogued: Mattermark (2014, Series A) Front (2016, Series A) Moz (2011, Series B) Andy and Joshua Levy has been working …

Quartz posted an article last month about investors valuing an entrepreneur’s willingness or ability to learn.  The article even mentioned that it isn’t about the ability to learn, but just the willingness to learn.  The “learning” suggestion for entrepreneurs is supported by research / data (University of Louisville PhD colleague: Cheryl Mitteness’, Sudek, and Baucus angel investor research, and Ciuchta et …

When pitching one’s business idea, one must ramp up their energy level to show the excitement one has about the idea.  That is easy.  However, when it becomes time to listen, one must turn and become respective of comments from the audience.  One must change perspective from being a coach, being coachable, quickly. Here is an article that explains this: …