Successful Pitch

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·Nov 7, 2024

These are the three attributes you find in every successful pitch. These are the ones that get a check, that actually start their journey funded on Shark Tank, that go into the ecosphere of Shark Tank, that get followed every year by all the networks, that get all the daytime television and all that stuff because they got an investor.

In every case, they're able to articulate the idea in 90 seconds or less. Every single time, they were able to say, most of them were 60 seconds. They say, "Look, I'm from Casa Massachusetts, I put cupcakes in a jar, they fed X them to people, I get it." Mhm.

The ones that ramble on and can't get the idea out, and it's still 10 minutes later and we're still wondering what are they talking about, they never get funded. So that's number one.

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