How to Pitch Anything: What Investors, Spouses, and Skeptical Colleagues All Have in Common
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Here is a thing nobody tells you when you are preparing for your first investor meeting: the skills you need have nothing to do with finance.
They are the same skills you used to convince your partner to go to Tuscany instead of the beach. The same ones you deployed when you talked your team into a complete architecture rewrite. The same ones your ten-year-old uses when they want a later bedtime.
Every pitch is the same at its core. Someone has a resource — money, time, attention, credibility — and you are asking them to bet some of it on you.