Category Archives: Economics

The Seven Non-Negotiables of a Startup Pitch

In the past week, I attended two events where I had to evaluate startup pitches delivered to investors:  a boot camp for the upcoming 3RVF conference in Pittsburgh, and the interim demo day at AlphaLab.  Both events were dry-run practice sessions so that presenting companies could be more polished when they were actually on the [...]

In Times of Market Turmoil, Focus on Capital Efficiency

Sorry for the late-summer posting lull, but September always brings the re-start of the venture conference season… and we had a nice power outage, to boot!  Ike passed through, but now all tree branches are removed, all wires restrung, all transformers replaced – so we are back in business.

There was a nice post today by [...]