How to Convince Investors
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How to Convince Investors
Your competition and your sustainable competitive advantage. • An overview of your business and its management team. Provide a synopsis of your business model and show pricing and margins of your product or service. Describe your team and why it will make this business successful. • Your business goals for the next one, three, and five years. Inclu
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Second, if you are hyper-present in the meeting, thinking deeply about the founder and why they are taking on the irrational pursuit of starting a company, which comes with a greater than 80 percent chance of failure and a 100 percent chance of suffering, then you will be able to make a better decision on whom to invest in. Basically, if you shut y
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As investors evaluate your pitch, they are looking for ways that your startup addresses five principal types of risk: product risk, market risk, management (or execution) risk, financial risk, and competitive risk.
Judy Robinett • Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
