Episode 1212

Charles Hudson & Jason give candid feedback on startup pitches at Founder University | E1212

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Show notes:

00:00 Start

00:56 What is Founder's University? Founder Pitches

02:48 Senior In-Home Care Marketplace - MyCareBase

05:00 Education Improvement - Spiky.ai

06:59 Beauty Product Sales & Video Tutorial - The Pro Box

09:21 Paper Record Digitizer - Airblock Technologies

11:23 Vanta - Get $1000 off automating your SOC 2 https://vanta.com/twist

13:10 MyCarBase Feedback - Investors need to understand the business model

14:53 Spiky.ai Feedback - Be clear on what stage the company is in

16:39 The Pro Box Feedback - Early companies are stronger when they focus

20:04 Airblock Feeback - Don't include vanity metrics

22:38 Ranking the first set of companies

24:49 Masterworks - Skip the 17,000 person waitlist https://masterworks.io

26:35 Workforce Management - Sinc

28:44 Visual Search Discovery - Fetxh

30:36 Real-Time Chat - Arena.im

33:24 Agricultural Risk Analysis - Agtuary

35:27 OurCrowd - Get a free account https://ourcrowd.com/twist

38:48 Sinc Feedback - Give details on how you close customers

41:01 Fetxh Feedback - Make your unique "why" clear

44:12 Arena.im Feedback - Put your numbers first if they are great

46:56 Agtuary Feedback - Make your pricing clear

48:15 Ranking the second set of companies

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