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Pitching Your Pre-Seed Company – Part 2

Posted by | Jun 30, 2013

Elliott Hauser is the founder of Coursefork, a group of university and online educators building open teaching tools. Coursefork were winners of Triangle Startup Weekend – EDU in March 2013 at HUB Raleigh. In the first part of this series, I covered how to get meetings with investors. Now I’m turning to help you pick which investors are right for you and your startup. My startup, Coursefork, is right in the midst of this process, and I’m learning about this every day. Angels vs. VCs Angel investors are very different than Venture Capitalists. It’s important to understand the distinction,...

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How to Pitch Your Pre-Seed Startup

Posted by | May 12, 2013

Elliott Hauser is the founder of Coursefork, a group of university and online educators building open teaching tools. Coursefork were winners of Triangle Startup Weekend – EDU in March 2013 at HUB Raleigh. Coursefork is in the midst of pitching to angel investors and we’ve learned a ton, so I thought I’d take the time write a post that can hopefully save you time and/or effort. There was a distinct shift for us a few months ago when investors started taking meetings instead of giving us the “keep me updated.” Here’s how we got there: Be Targeted Keeping track...

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