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Kevin Hale - How to Pitch Your Startup

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Kevin Hale explains how to clearly and concisely package a startup idea to effectively pitch to investors.

In this lecture, YC Partner Kevin Hale goes over how to package up your idea and communicate it to an investor. He shares his tips on how to craft your pitch in a clear and concise way that effectively grabs your audience's attention. Transcript and lecture slides here: ycombinator.com/library/6q-how-to-pitch-your-startup This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and global community of founders. Register and join the community at startupschool.org/ Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - Introduction YC application Be clear Example pitches "X for Y" Be concise Conclusion

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…into business". To me that would be enough to conclude that I should avoid doing business with you at least at this stage. I'm sure the same would be concluded by any professional investor in my place. Why? Here's a video of an investor from YC talking about pitching, where he mentions all the mistakes you've made while pitching in this thread: link to this video BTW, I highly recommend watching the whole YC Startup School 2019 course. P.S. It might be hurting your ego to accept what happened in this thread at first, but there's a positive way to look at it: nothing bad happened, it's just an opportunity to learn sooner. After all, none of us gets good at something without making mistakes and lear…
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