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How to make a good VC pitch – an entrepreneur’s perspective

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Among the companies I poked fun at yesterday was Fleck. Turns out they have a blog. Also turns out that their latest post was a really good one – an entrepreneur’s perspective on how to give a good venture pitch. I wrote a post about a year ago on the same subject.  This is a great companion to that post – from the perspective of someone on the other side of the table. By the way, be sure to take a look at the description of the business on their splash page – very amusing!

January 20th, 2006     Categories: Venture Capital    
  • http://www.fleck.com Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

    Thank you for the compliment. I was kind of nervous about posting this because I am on the other end of the table and am only guessing what VCs want. So it’s good to hear that there is some truth in what I think is important…

  • http://divedi.blogspot.com/ Dimitar Vesselinov
  • James

    Seth – Thanks for the links. This is always a great topic to blog about because everyone has their own sense of what is “best” for the elevator pitch. I have added a few blurbs on my blog. Keep blogging…
    http://purevc.typepad.com/pure_vc/2006/01/the_pitch.html

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