Before you start pitching, roleplay the investor perspective Pitches need to be given from the perspective of the investor. These things are too often forgotten The investor’s job is to make a financial return for their investors. They get thousands of pitches per year. This means they are distracted and also that they’ve probably heard… Read more »
At an accelerator demo day, nobody comes planning to invest in all the startups in the cohort. The goals are to sort the wheat from the chaff, and to consider whether to begin a dialogue with the best of the startups pitching. What if you don’t believe you’re the best in your cohort on the… Read more »
Dr Vikram Palit is a paediatric doctor and the founder of Consultmed, a digital referral platform that’s shaking up the system of paper referrals in the healthcare system. He writes for Startup Daily about his mission to axe the fax. In the time of COVID-19, we have seen a transformation in the way healthcare is… Read more »
A med startup co-founded by a doctor frustrated that his industry still sends information by fax has won the inaugural Pitch Perfect competition, hosted by Startup Daily and Microsoft Australia. Consultmed is a digital referral and workflow automation platform that directly connects primary healthcare providers, such as GPs, with specialist clinics and hospitals networks. Co-founded by… Read more »
I love helping people and introductions to good people is a great way to do it. But… I get a lot of bad emails asking me for introductions. Here are my thoughts; Mutual Respect First I need to respect you before I introduce you, because if you do a bad job, that makes me look… Read more »
The Pitch Doctor, with Cheryl Mack, Head of Community at Stone & Chalk, is a new column we’ve launched after she said the notorious Fyre Festival had one of the best pitch decks she’s seen. Fyre Fest raised $36 million from investors, but was a logistics disaster and led to its founder being jailed for… Read more »
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