When you finish YC, they take you into a special room and tell you that fundraising is not success, but merely a means to an end, which is creating a successful company. They also tell you this constantly before YC, during it, and after it.
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Yeah bro I hear ya... anyway wanna invest in my startup? Market size 1 trillion—selling jars of clean air to young urban professionals. Lots of VCs interested. I can make a spot for you Paul. Call me
Believe it or not, this is not the worst pitch I've received. It's (a) concise and (b) I can tell what your product is. Those two alone may push it into the top half.
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It's also already (kind of) a thing, so there's some market validation! https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/15/asia/china-canadian-company-selling-clean-air/index.html …
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Wow... the top half? The pitches are that bad?
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Wow. In that case I truly feel for you. Who’d have thunk
@paulg would need *my* compassion??
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Like the way you look at this pitch! Learned. Thank you!
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That's both true and sad.
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Sadly it's not just pitches. Half the time when I read an established/funded company's About page or their home page I have literally no idea what they actually do.
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