Chaos To Clarity

How to Fundraise during an Economic Meltdown with Jasmine Ober

Episode Summary

During this episode, we identified over 30 different pitfalls, mistakes and best practices that will make or break your next opportunity to raise capital.

Episode Notes

This episodes guest is Jasmine Ober, CEO of Pitch Genius.

Jasmine started Pitch Genius based on the difficulties she saw companies face when pitching for investment. To attempt to fill this market gap, she started a service that helps startups nail their pitch and land the ever elusive capital opportunities that they’ve worked so hard to get.

During this episode, we identified over 30 different pitfalls, mistakes and best practices that will make or break your next opportunity to raise capital.

Highlights:

00:30 How Jasmine got into Fundraising
04:48 Common Mistakes Founders make when trying to land an investment 
07:55 Where founders go wrong with preparing their funding pitch

12:36 Eric’s experience with young founders raising capital without a business plan
14:28 The Pitfalls of Not Having an Exit Strategy 
20:10 No Competitive analysis = no deal
31:36 The Type of Story that Sells
33:25 Tactical Empathy Wins
37:02 Powerful Storytelling comes from Client Outcomes

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