Comments on: Speed Dating with Entrepreneurs http://www.oxyfish.com/wordpress/2006/06/05/speed-dating-with-entrepreneurs/ Ruminations of a Startup CEO Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:18:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Radley http://www.oxyfish.com/wordpress/2006/06/05/speed-dating-with-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-75628 Radley Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:01:35 +0000 http://www.oxyfish.com/wordpress/2006/06/05/speed-dating-with-entrepreneurs/#comment-75628 Well said, finally a good report on this stuff Well said, finally a good report on this stuff

]]> By: Andrew Fife http://www.oxyfish.com/wordpress/2006/06/05/speed-dating-with-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Andrew Fife Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:43:42 +0000 http://www.oxyfish.com/wordpress/2006/06/05/speed-dating-with-entrepreneurs/#comment-23 Tom: I agree 100% about asking for feedback. However, I would say that engaging with the feedback is the most interesting, useful and fun part of pitching to VCs. Clearly many entrepreneurs don't handle feedback well so attempting to engage can be dangerous but those who are open and respectful can really make the most of the their investor pitches. I guess one other pitfall to avoid would be to pay attention to the time as I think that most VCs are much more willing to have a dialogue at half past than at five till. ...but now that I write this, I'm thinking back nervously on the time I gave my own pitch to WF... :) -Andrew Tom:
I agree 100% about asking for feedback. However, I would say that engaging with the feedback is the most interesting, useful and fun part of pitching to VCs. Clearly many entrepreneurs don’t handle feedback well so attempting to engage can be dangerous but those who are open and respectful can really make the most of the their investor pitches. I guess one other pitfall to avoid would be to pay attention to the time as I think that most VCs are much more willing to have a dialogue at half past than at five till.

…but now that I write this, I’m thinking back nervously on the time I gave my own pitch to WF… :)
-Andrew

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