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How to Pitch Your Business Idea to Startup Investors
Securing funding, whether for a startup or an established business, is not an easy task. A strong startup concept won’t be enough when approaching investors; you'll also need an exceptional pitch to sell it. Let's...
From Concept to Delivery: Tips for Perfecting Your Investor Pitch
Raising money for a startup is a long process, but an important one. Securing funding may not be easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. In order to successfully pitch investors, you’ll need to move...
6 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Successfully Pitch to Women Angel Investors
The stats for women in investing are somewhat bleak. Only 11% of VC partners are women, and as a whole, women angel investors have only reached 22%. On the entrepreneur side, things look better, with...
10 Ways to Create a Successful Business Pitch
Recently, the term "business pitch" has become as popular as the term "startup." A pitch is essentially a business plan that one presents verbally to potential investors of a business. A shorter summary of the...
5 Actionable Steps to Unlock Your Entrepreneurial Spirit During Quarantine
COVID-19 has not only drastically impacted the health, finance and business sphere, it’s also had serious ramifications on social behavior. Mandatory quarantines have forced people to remain home for weeks (even months) at a time....
6 Tips to Improve Your Odds When Facing Investors
It takes money to make money. But how do you get startup funds to get your business off the ground? How do you fund your expansion into new products or increase market reach? External funds...
Practice Your Pitch: 5 Techniques for Success
Everyone wants to have an effective presentation that really captivates their audience's attention. If you are unprepared and relying too much on a script or reading directly from the slides, you're in for trouble. In order...
How to Prepare Before Pitching Your Business to Investors
Several years ago, I was trying to raise capital for my business. I spent months working with a particular venture capitalist. After months of runaround, we ultimately got nowhere with the VC. Emails went unanswered...
How to Design a Pitch Deck That Captures a Crowd
Starting a business is the ultimate dream for many, but often times, what stands in the way of reaching the pinnacle of success is the ever-dreaded pitch deck. Whether it’s for investors, a new partner...
5 Things You Need to Do Before Approaching an Investor
Would you be surprised to know that some of the most innovative startup ideas fail to secure investor funding? Although many startups focus on perfecting their concept, the idea itself is one of the least...
How to Take Your Pitch Deck From Good to Great
What’s the difference between a good and a great B2B pitch deck? A good pitch deck clearly explains your product and what it does. It thoroughly illustrates product features, and it demonstrates how smart and...
Why I Quit My Job to Launch a Startup, Failed and Would Do it All Again
This isn’t an overnight success story, this is a real story. It was a mid-September afternoon in 2016. There I was, on the top floor of some swanky office, peering through floor to ceiling windows...
5 Tips for Making the Perfect Investor Pitch
You’ve heard it before and you’ll surely hear it again: “What is your elevator pitch?” Compressing passion, data and complicated work into a few key points is no small feat, but it’s necessary for introducing...
9 Ways to Win Your Next Pitch Presentation [Infographic]
Considering what a rare commodity human attention is these days, it’s become more critical than ever for entrepreneurs to make an impact while giving a pitch presentation to prospective clients, investors and partners. Interestingly, when it...
Business Builder E-Book Series: Build Your Perfect Pitch Deck [Free Download]
StartupNation's Business Builder e-book series provides you with a FREE downloadable guide to help you start, grow or manage your business. In this guide, "Pitch Deck Fundamentals," produced by Venture Formations, you’ll learn everything you...
Angel Investors Share Tips for Successful Business Pitches
As any entrepreneur knows, having support from angel investors in the early days can make all the difference when it comes to the success, or failure, of a startup company. It’s a boost just to...
Year in Review: StartupNation 2016
This year was one of change for StartupNation: we restructured our website to serve you better, featuring improved article layout and author profiles. Our ongoing drive to provide readers with articles, audio and (coming soon...
Top 5 Best Presentation Apps Your Startup Needs
When your business is starting out, you need to present yourself quickly and show what your startup is about as easily as possible. Telling your company's story for sales, events and investment pitches means you need...
Busting the Myths of Small Business Funding
Securing funding for your startup may seem impossible, but it is no more difficult than making a sale. Fundraising is not impossible, it is an obstacle that requires the proper focus, beliefs, capabilities and strategies...
6 Simple Rules of Pitch Deck Slide Design
You only get one chance to make a first impression with investors; you don’t want them to be so turned off by your slide design that they are not able to truly see what a great business...