Doing a lot of pitch practice lately. I saw a founder this week who’d engineered his pitch so investors couldn’t interrupt with hard questions. He thought a clean, unbroken pitch was the win. It’s the opposite. A great pitch invites the hard question early, because you have the answer, and watching you handle it live is what actually convinces them
Nicolas Dessaigne
@dessaigne, Group Partner, Y-Combinator
Choose them carefully
Wildly underrated stat: Your performance is directly shaped by the people you choose to surround yourself with. Effort is all about who you let in your circle
Codie Sanchez
@Codie_Sanchez, CEO, Contrarian Thinking
One can’t be
right always
If you’re ‘always right’ about everything, but your life isn’t turning out how you’d hoped, consider the possibility that you’re often wrong
Justin Welsh
@thejustinwelsh, CEO, East33