Pitches

Fundraising

You Can Make or Break Your Startup in 60 Seconds — Here's How to Make Each One Count

An elevator pitch gives you one minute to convince potential investors to consider your business as a lucrative opportunity. As venture capitalist myself, here are a few helpful tips that'll catch an investor's attention and make them want to hear more.

Starting a Business

I Won $100,000 for My Business Pitch — and 3 Simple Strategies Helped Me Do It

Here's how entrepreneurs can effectively pitch their companies to potential customers and stakeholders.

Fundraising

5 Tips for Pitching a Winning Business Idea

Discover how to create and deliver a compelling business pitch to investors with five key steps.

Fundraising

2 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Pitch

By improving the start and finish of your pitch you can instantly help stand out from the crowd and increase your chance of raising venture capital.

Fundraising

4 Steps to Take Before Asking Investors for Money

Entrepreneurs need to ensure their company has sufficient capital. Raising funds is a fundamental way to do so.

Operations & Logistics

The 5 Essential Elements of a PR Pitch That Will Land

Is there anything new to say about how to write a successful pitch? Maybe not. But this veteran PR pro has a handful of tactics she routinely employs to get client results.

Buying / Investing in Business

A Guide to Visualizing Data in Your Pitch Deck

What separates your pitch deck from the 99% that go in the trash? Learn how to use data visualization to create compelling investment decks that secure investments to get your business off the runway.

Fundraising

3 Ways to Make Your Funding Pitches Shine

Announcing a funding round is crucial to project stability and strength for your company, so your news needs to be spread as far and wide as possible. Here are three tips to increase your chances of securing coverage for your next funding round.

Thought Leaders

5 Tips for Taking Your Pitch Deck From Seed to Series A

Here are the five most important elements of a great pitch deck for your growing startup to take it to Series A.

Marketing

How to Capitalize on Current Trends and Get Featured In Media

Turns out, a killer story with a creative twist isn't enough to get your pitch accepted. Here's how to really pique a journalist's attention.

Marketing

7 Tips for Creating the Perfect Pitch

Whether selling your content idea to a publication editor or CEO, it's essential to do your homework and prepare a pitch that hits the mark.

Marketing

PR Pitches Getting Lost in the Abyss? This Storytelling Advice Will Help the Right People Find Them.

Advice from a PR pro on how to use storytelling across multiple dimensions to get to where you really want to go.

Leadership

6 Ways to Make Virtual Presentations Feel Less Weird

Make them feel human, and you'll stand out -- in a good way.

Starting a Business

7 Step Guide On Preparing Your Business Pitch

Startup investor explains the seven things every small business should know before pitching their business to raise finance

Fundraising

Forerunner Ventures Founder Kirsten Green On What She Looks for In a Pitch

The investor breaks down what makes her want to invest in a brand, today's biggest opportunities, and how the tech world is about so much more than technology.