Mike Edelhart is the lead partner for the Social Starts moment-of-inception investment fund and CEO of the Tomorrow Project.
Entrepreneurship is a socially accepted form of mania
What you think is true will probably not turn out to be true
Clarity is key trait to get funding
Be obsessive about your customers
SocialStarts - The Venture Bestiary: Hunting Beyond The Unicorn
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charle Mackay SocialStarts
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Michael Walsh is the co-founder of Cariloop and runs the Health 2.0 Dallas chapter. Cariloop is a program that allows people to help manage their older loved ones' healthcare and needs from start to finish. Michael has raised $500,000 in funding during his first seed round and has some valuable insights to share on what truly makes a successful pitch.
A pitch should be a story that you tell investors.
What are pain points of your customer that you solve?
When you give a customers control during chaos they buy.
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
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Ben Narasin is the General Partner for Canvas Venture Fund. He has 25 years experience has an entrepreneur and started the company Fashionmall.com, one of the first e-commerce sites in 1993. Ben tells the audience that he likes to look for tenacity in an entrepreneur and breaks down what he likes to see in pitch slides. Ben also gives a deep dive into what kind of financial ranges you can expect to find in a pre-seed, seed, and series A round.
The pitch deck is the table of contents in a navigational way.
It's hot for someone else, it's cold for you.
I need five things to make an investment, people, people, people, the great idea, and a huge market if it works.
Tenacity is the key trait in a founder.
Nothing worse than the right idea at the wrong time.
Team, idea and huge market all needed.
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ben Narasin Twitter Folloze
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Eric Scott is the technical assistant for Max Levchin and works at HVF Labs. Eric helps manage external investments at HVF, which stands for Hard, Valuable, and Fun. Eric talks on how the company got it's name, what Eric and his team look for in a pitch, and talks on why the startup Zen Payroll turned him from a skeptical investor to a major supporter when he heard their pitch.
A founder's authentic passion about the problem is infectious to investors
Do your homework on what investors' passion points are before you pitch.
How to make investors go from skeptical to enthusiastic.
Raportive
Venmo Glowing
Hard Valuable Fun
Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.
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HVF - Breaking the Barrier: the race for the first 1 person $1B company
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Chris Camillo has an amazing story on how he turned $20,000 into $2 million through investing wisely in Wall Street. He wrote a book on how he was able to identify game-changing trends before anyone else entitled, Laughing at Wall Street. Chris is now the Co-Founder of a recently launched product called TickerTags. TickerTags analyzes and searches for changing trends on social media based on user-defined keywords. Chris talks about TickerTags, raising $1.5 million at the seed round stage, and how he was able to spot trends before Wall Street financial analysts.
All change is detectable.
Be upfront about your hurdles in your pitch.
Know ALL your competitors when you pitch.
Be a thought leader to get funding.
New investors are successful startups not bankers.
TickerTags
One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch.
Laughing at Wall Street by Chris Camillo
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