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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Analogies are a conceptual framework, so they’re not going to be 100% accurate. However, so many entrepreneurs try to pitch by analogy that some investors have fatigue when they see it. We didn’t try to establish the viral dynamic; we just asserted it.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

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That's a framework that's really important to me, and it's something that we've talked about a lot. I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny. Eric Ries : So, what was the investor reaction like? Nobody batted their eyelids too much.