What Investors Want
Jeff Epstein explains how venture investors assess risk, traction and milestones, helping founders prepare evidence for investor questions.
Review your pitch through the questions an investor needs answered before taking the next step. For each important claim, identify the customer evidence or business reasoning behind it. Where you cannot support a claim yet, explain the uncertainty and the experiment that could resolve it.
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