Pitch Practice Highlights — February 2021

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Highlights from a Pitch Practice session we did back in February.
Key points:

Make the problem’s cost clear
Max 280 chars per slide
Team early in the deck (at seed)
Define your niche

Participating teams: moyaero.com, daimlas.com, allosense.com & pugetbuoy.com

Ash Rust

Managing Partner, Sterling Road

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