27 Stories To Learn About Pitching

Let's learn about Pitching via these 27 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. What's your growth rate?

Guys! During the YC Startup School I gradually started to implement different ideas to track primary metrics and I have involved my team to set OKR (Objectives and Key Results) and track their important metrics too. Eventually it has been structured on a dashboard using just google spreadsheets and formulas and charts.

2. How to Ace Public Relations with Itai Elizur

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic - Seth Godin

3. Stop Blindly Targeting, Start Creating Smarter Content for the Funnel

Businesses want to make sales.

4. Hiring Tips: How to Pitch to a Potential Startup Founding Team Member

Hiring for your startup's founding team, but struggling to recruit the best candidates? This guide will help you perfect your pitch and attract top talent!

5. 10 Hacks to Pitch Your Idea and Have Stakeholders Love It

These simple steps will help you to avoid common mistakes during a presentation, catch stakeholder's attention and receive the green light for your project.

6. In Conversation with Stewart Kohl on What He Looks For in an Investment

Stewart Kohl is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio with offices across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Riverside Company has more than $7 billion in assets under management and oversees a global portfolio of more than 80 companies. Prior to joining Riverside in 1993, Kohl served as vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital and COO of the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C

7. How to Get Into a Startup Accelerator and Secure Series A Funding

If a company doesn’t have solid capital from the start, it can get funding from other resources such as venture capitalists, business angels, and accelerators.

8. Using Artificial Intelligence and Big Data To Deliver Your Pitch

A good pitch tells the story of your idea. From its inception to its present form and everything in between. Utilising multimedia, graphs and visuals is a good way to keep your audience engaged and up to speed. Most fundamentally, using data is important for both your audience and your idea.

9. Darwin's Hybrid Intelligence to Align AI & Human Goals for Startups & VCs

This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible.

10. Six Tips to Create a Powerful Elevator Pitch

Looking for tips to develop a robust and incredible elevator pitch? A compelling elevator pitch is pretty essential for achieving your business goals and objectives. Whether you want to raise money from venture capitalists or angel investors, or just willing to hire a perfect team for your business, elevator pitch is the most important task.

11. The Role of Change in a Pitch Deck Answering the "Why Now?" Question

A successful pitch starts with a well-thought-out pitch deck. And the "Why now" section is arguably one of the most important aspects of that deck.

12. Pitching VCs? Use This Reverse Psychology Trick To Get Funded

You’re planning a big adventure — skydiving or swimming with the sharks, for example — you’ve probably got the details mapped out.

13. 'Smart people with bad ideas can always pivot.' —LA MP Mark Tung

This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible.

14. Seven Finalists, including Hacker Noon, Announced for Rural Colorado Virtual Pitch Event

A distributed workforce, long prophesied by the tech community, has been accelerated by a decade in the last six months.

15. 5 Storytelling Tips That Improve Pitching for Startups

A very concise article with 5 tips for storytelling when fundraising for a startup or pitching at a competition.

16. 3 Main Reasons Why TechCrunch Won't Feature Your Startup - Part 2

How should I pitch my company to journalists? Good question! Journalists love two things: respect for their personality and exclusive information. What else?

17. How to Pitch Like a Pro: Grab a Journalist's Attention

In the past two posts, you learned about what piques a reporter's interest and how to make it newsworthy. It's time to take the knowledge and create a pitch for journalists.

18. Cold E-mailing: The Wonders It Could Do for You

Aleksandr Volodarsky goes over the benefits of cold e-mailing.

19. Pitch the World's Most Misbegotten Podcast

A listicle of unfeasible, unpleasant, and unproduceable podcast concepts, as nominated by the Hacker Noon top writers and editors Slogging community.

20. Funding: No Longer Twice as Likely to Come Through if Pitched by a Man 🤞

The entrepreneurial road to business success is never easy. But one way to make the path to entrepreneurial success even more challenging is simply to be born female. Female entrepreneurs face challenges that their male counterparts have never even considered.

21. My First Pitch to Investor: From Outsourcing to Product

Hi community! My name is Sergii, I'm a CEO at WellSpeak from Kyiv Ukraine. We build a mobile app for practicing English speaking skills.

22. The Funding Ask Slide: How to Make it Better?

Asking for money isn't always as straightforward as it seems. Ask for too much, and you can end up looking for funds for months or years on end. Fail to show ho

23. How To Pitch Your Story and Get Published

Tons of websites offer guest post opportunities, and probably you would love to get published at least in one of them. Working on both sides - publisher at Abstract Stylist and an independent blogger, I have a rare opportunity to share my insights and most common mistakes people make while pitching their guest posts. Let's take a look at 5 mistakes I see people make daily.

24. The 5 Steps to Becoming the God of Pitch Decks

A step-by-step plan on becoming the God of Pitches for investors and start-up contests.

25. 6 Tips to Create a Powerful Elevator Pitch

Looking for tips to develop a robust and incredible elevator pitch? A compelling elevator pitch is pretty essential for achieving your business goals and objectives. Whether you want to raise money from venture capitalists or angel investors, or just willing to hire a perfect team for your business, defining your elevator pitch is the most important task.

26. Master the Art of Public Speaking with these 8 Simple Tips

It's been a week of preparation and you’ve rehearsed in front everything and everyone, including, but notwithstanding mirrors, husbands and even cats. You’re geared up and ready to go. The stage is set, you start talking and within a few minutes, half of your audience, instead of glazing at you, locks their eyes into their gadgets. How to keep people entertained and win back those whose attention you’ve lost? I’ve uncovered the eight secrets of successful stage performance, which will help you keep even the most capricious audience.

27. Inside PG&E: What I Learned Pitching

When a culture of risk aversion creates risk of harm

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