London startup founder diary

My Own Startup Pitch Deck Has Been Rejected Eleven Times, and I Have Finally Identified the Exact Slide Where Every Single Investor Loses Interest

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My Own Startup Pitch Deck Has Been Rejected Eleven Times, and I Have Finally Identified the Exact Slide Where Every Single Investor Loses Interest – A founder’s honest diary entry on the slow, humbling process of workshopping a pitch deck into something that might actually land

An Investor Told Me My Startup “Lacked Founder-Market Fit” Because I Have Never Personally Struggled With the Problem I’m Solving, and I’m Still Thinking About It

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An Investor Told Me My Startup “Lacked Founder-Market Fit” Because I Have Never Personally Struggled With the Problem I’m Solving, and I’m Still Thinking About It – A founder’s diary entry on the strange, increasingly rigid expectation that you must have suffered your own problem before you’re allowed to solve it