5 Practical Tips for Perfecting Your Startup Pitch

We are living in the age of the entrepreneur — more people are starting up, and it's ever important to stand out in the crowd. When pitching investors, then, it's crucial that entrepreneurs do their research, understand what's expected of them and pitch accordingly.

We spoke to a handful of venture capitalists and startup entrepreneurs to get their top tips on how to put together the ideal startup pitch. Here are the best five tips we heard.

1. Start With a Great Company

"Having a great startup pitch has more to do with setting up and running a great company than optimizing some type of sales process to investors," says Ken Howery, co-founder of Founders Fund and PayPal. "Great investors can see through most tactics that you will use in the pitch process, so the best fundraising strategy is to build a great company." Read more...