Lindsay Sturman

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How professional investors evaluate early-stage companies; leave with a polished 3-5 minute pitch and 10-slide deck.

 Co-Founder, MySpace 

Brett Brewer

Co-Founder, MySpace · Co-Founder and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures

TV Writer and Showrunner

 Showrunner, writer and Executive Producer

Most founders spend weeks perfecting their slide deck, and just minutes thinking about the story it tells. They walk into investor meetings with the right information in the wrong order, framed in a way that explains rather than compels. They leave without a yes — and often without understanding why.Brett Brewer has heard thousands of pitches over two decades as both founder and investor. He co-founded MySpace — which grew to 115 million users and sold to News Corporation for $673 million in Oct 2005— and is now a seed-stage investor backing early-stage founders. What he has found is that founders who raise are almost always the ones who tell the best story. And telling a story is a craft that you can learn.Hollywood has a lot to teach founders. Lindsay Sturman has spent 25 years writing and producing television. The tools TV writers use every day to hook an audience, name a villain and hero, create urgency, and land a payoff are the same tools the best founders use to pitch investors. Few founders have been taught these tools. This course is a chance to learn the techniques from two experts – with practical break-out sessions and guidance to apply them to your pitch.

A great pitch is not a summary of your business. It is a story.

Build and deliver a pitch

Close the deal

Founders at pre-seed or seed stage preparing to pitch investors and build a pitch that is structurally correct and genuinely compelling

Founders who have pitched and gotten polite passes without understanding why

Business leaders, GMs and PMs who pitch vision, product, and ideas and want a deeper, more durable storytelling toolkit

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Hollywood Secrets for Pitching Your Startup, Your Business, and Yourself