hey guys, pretty fun idea.
here's the premise:
One founder
Two investors
Once a week, for an hour
The founder can pitch their idea & explain the biggest challenges they face - and get real, bullshi*t free feedback from real angel investors or vc's.
No idea if this will work (add value to the entrepreneur and people watching, but since there's not a lot of transparency when it comes to pitches/feedback/mentorship between entrepreneurs and investors, so I'm excited to see what happens.
This will be powered by blab, which will allow anyone can tune in and watch/learn from the session.
I'm game, have signed up :) Couple of thoughts:
1, An hour is probably fairly long, I'd split it in to 30 minutes with 2 Founders (same investors)
2, I presume you will curate them to try and find the best Founder/Investor matches (e.g Helpa talking to people investing in the Pharma industry is probably a waste of time)
This is cool, I can see scaling issues, we felt the pain and we had a product that was self server. I feel like we started a pitching revolution with founderfox, wait until you see what we do next with it.
@koridhandy Not really trying to scale this. It's just a once a week show for an hour. Not trying to create a marketplace for entrepreneurs and investors. Excited to see what's next with FF (link to a demo?)
@shaanvp@koridhandy yes, its a tough battle, founders get scared to pitch to VCs and keep saying "I'll pitch tomorrow" but never do. We have some other really good ideas that we are implementing in the app this month. We have also decided to build a fully dedicated website too, just finished the designs now working on the front end. I can't link any demo videos of the new stuff because its on the DL mainly because we feel its a game changer. But feel free to download the current app in the store. All the best dude.
Love this positioning for the Blab platform, @shaanvp. You should have @Jason judge. He doesn't hold back but delivers his honest opinion respectfully. 😀
P.S. check out Founderfox (cc @koridhandy, @_mitchellporter)
thanks @rrhoover, and hey @shaanvp best of luck with this, we are actually pivoting away from just pitches based off what we have figured out with ff. The new Founderfox will be ready late July, keep you posted.
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Sounds promising! I'd love to have brutally honest feedback about my business. The problem I believe is who's giving the feedback. Can you guarantee that people on the other side of the table are real investors, with real portfolios, and have-been-there experience?
@lhfaria The other people will be "real" - but I'm much more concerned with making sure the person will "keep it real".
Instead of over analyzing their portfolio or resume, I'll first make sure that they really want to help the entrepreneur, and will give bullsh*t free advice instead of just being polite.
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@shaanvp@lhfaria You're right, that's a start! But keep in mind that feedback is personal -- so make sure you won't have unqualified people to do it. Good luck to you guys!
@shaanvp, very cool idea. How about segmenting it to locations, so that people could see if there's any difference in feedback from investors from the Valley or Europe etc. ?
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