From the course: Pitching to Investors
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Prepare your responses
- You're feeling your stride in an investor meeting and "Bam!" an investor interrupts you in slide two with a question. Could be a great question, but now you're down a rabbit hole without a clear route back back to your deck. I've seen this on both sides, as an investor and doing this myself as a founder. You should be prepared for questions. Be prepared for your pitch never to go exactly as planned because a pitch is really just a conversation, and good conversation leads you down many paths, right? We've probably discussed practicing and preparing in every video in this course, but for good reason. You want to be natural and comfortable in your meetings, then questions won't throw you off. If you've practiced enough, you should be able to flow and make live edits to your pitch. And although you should be able to field most questions investors throw at you, it's okay to say that you don't have an answer right now, but…
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