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This Week in Startups

Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson & Jason give candid feedback on startup pitches at Founder University | E1212

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jason & Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures take 8 pitches from founders and give feedback on how the pitches were structured (13:10) and their business models (38:48). Pod Notes: http://bit.ly/twist1212

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Hey everybody, we just hosted our 18th Founder University and it's our

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fifth one over Zoom. This is an event where over 250 founders get together

1:06.0

and we share with them the greatest advice on how to build your company.

1:11.0

As part of this amazing program, Emmy award-winning producer Jackie Deegan

1:15.0

will bring the top founders to me to get candid advice and this advice is going

1:20.0

to be candid. And these companies are going to be very early.

1:23.0

These are MVPs, people just starting out and at each session I sit there,

1:28.0

I hear their pitch and I have a little dialogue with a friend of mine,

1:32.0

like Charles Hudson from precursor ventures.

1:35.0

So the two of us are going to give feedback to a bunch of great companies,

1:39.0

everything from fundraising pipelines to growth metrics and legal hurdles,

1:43.0

all that great stuff. If you want to come to the next Founder University,

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