Andrew Hyde

Founder of Startup Weekend and Startup Enthusiast Based in Boulder, Colorado

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09.13.11

You Travel To Be Wrong

From ‘Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error‘

The desire to experience this kind of wrongness is seldom the explicit reason people engage in recreational travel, and it’s certainly not the only reason. (We also set out to visit friends, brush up on our Portuguese, see the Great Barrier Reef.) But it is often the…

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  • Not How To View An Investor
  • How To View An Investor
09.9.08

How To Pitch An Investor

Walking around TechCrunch50 today I saw quite a few pitches.  I think I can simplify what makes the pitches bad down to this (incorrect) theory:

Investors are drunk party girls at closing time at the bar.

Bad pitches usually come from thinking this.

So:

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  • techcrunch50
  • valuation
  • wrong

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