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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. The irony hurts.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] leehower.

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Introducing Traction, the NextView Podcast: Creative Ways Startups Find Results Against the Odds

View from Seed

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Using some brute force tactics to get early growth isn’t scalable over time, even if they work early on.

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Introducing Traction, the NextView Ventures Podcast

Rob Go

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Using some brute force tactics to get early growth isn’t scalable over time, even if they work early on.

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Introducing Traction, the NextView Ventures Podcast

Rob Go

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Using some brute force tactics to get early growth isn’t scalable over time, even if they work early on.