All posts by: Stacie Sterren

One of the key performance measures of a founder is how he or she can get the company’s vision sold to internal and external stakeholders. As is the case with many founders, attracting startup funding investment to help grow the...
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Having a consistent approach to investors is key to your start-up funding efforts. While you can approach this task in a hap-hazard way and still get results, it’s not the best way. Don’t let your funding success depend on pure...
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Achieving Long-Term Competitive Advantage through Continuous Process Optimization with Business Core Competency Competing on Product and Process From a strategic positioning standpoint, it’s easy to look at a competitor’s end product and try to compete with them, but it’s also...
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One of the best things about going through the rigor of getting a custom pitch deck, is that you can use the output for many things afterwards. We help our previous pitch deck clients build sales decks that pull out...
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As a business owner, I have a strong urge to do things right — to serve my clients’ needs, to make sure that projects run smoothly. Serving clients include building a connection with the community and helping tell startup stories...
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 I was giving a free 15 minute pitch consultation to a client the other day, when I saw something suspiciously conventional looking. The client’s deck… it looked so familiar… Yep – I’ve seen that before. It was the Google Pitch...
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When you’re looking for startup funding, you end up talking to a lot of people. And those people have a lot of opinions about you, your company, and your pitch deck. Let me guess…You spent hours putting together your best...
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Seven tips for developing your in-person presentation and making your next practice pitch a success. We review hundreds of investor pitch decks and wanted to share with you what’s trending from the detailed feedback we give our participants. You can follow these...
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With the number of new startups launching each year growing at a faster and faster pace, it’s a great time to be an entrepreneur. The majority of new startups will seek funding or pitch in a startup pitch competition within...
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Fund Pitching Pitch Deck Fire presents “PitchPossible” a series to prove that you can pitch anything. In this installment of the series, we have invented hiking boots. Until today, hiking boots have never existed. We are pitching for funding, strategic...
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