elizyin

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by elizyin 10y ago
Sorry - after reading the comments below, I wanted to clarify what I meant is that investors are currently seeing a lot of companies in cleaning or food delivery. I did not mean to imply / suggest that it's bad to solve problems
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by elizyin 10y ago
Thanks Josh. That's a good idea for a post. :)
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by elizyin 10y ago
Yes. High level ideas that people pitch are in themselves are not novel. The idea to come up with a cure to cancer is not novel. The idea to come up with a kickass search engine is also not novel. It is execution that matters. The detai
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by elizyin 10y ago
Ah sorry - I didn't realize people wouldn't understand this was a spam pitch! Point taken. I address non-native English speakers later in the post.
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by elizyin 10y ago
And most of the time investors won't even tell you no... they just will wait around and not tell you anything... :(
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by elizyin 10y ago
And in fact, it isn't usually the case that 90 people are saying no...more often than not, investors like to wait around and go MIA and not give you a response... Annoying as hell. :)
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by elizyin 10y ago
That isn't always the case (though it could be). Here's why it takes so long to pitch to investors: http://blog.elizabethyin.com/post/139303202435/why-fundraisi...
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by elizyin 10y ago
The purpose of standing out is so that you don't get inadvertently ignored. The point of the post wasn't to talk about what I look for in pitches. It's to illustrate what happens when you're an entrepreneur sending a d
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by elizyin 10y ago
I completely agree w/ you re: PR - that is the one part of Mike's slide deck that I disagree with.