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

In this episode, Jason Calacanis evaluates pitches from five startups: MyCareBase, Spiky.ai, The Pro Box, Airblock Technologies and Founder's University. He also provides feedback on their business models, focus, and presentation. In the second half, pitches from Sinc, Fetxh, Arena.im, and Agtuary are discussed and critiqued.

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Jason Calacanis

Host • 42%

Jacqui Deegan

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Stephanie Chan

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Burak Aksar

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Charles Hudson

Guest • 19%

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Chapters

0:00	Start
0:56	What is Founder's University? Founder Pitches
2:48	Senior In-Home Care Marketplace - MyCareBase
5:00	Education Improvement - Spiky.ai
6:59	Beauty Product Sales & Video Tutorial - The Pro Box
9:21	Paper Record Digitizer - Airblock Technologies
11:23	Vanta - Get $1000 off automating your SOC 2
13:10	MyCarBase Feedback - Investors need to understand the business model
14:53	Spiky.ai Feedback - Be clear on what stage the company is in
16:39	The Pro Box Feedback - Early companies are stronger when they focus
20:04	Airblock Feeback - Don't include vanity metrics
22:38	Ranking the first set of companies
24:49	Masterworks - Skip the 17,000 person waitlist
26:35	Workforce Management - Sinc
28:44	Visual Search Discovery - Fetxh
30:36	Real-Time Chat - Arena.im
33:24	Agricultural Risk Analysis - Agtuary
35:27	OurCrowd - Get a free account
38:48	Sinc Feedback - Give details on how you close customers
41:01	Fetxh Feedback - Make your unique "why" clear
44:12	Arena.im Feedback - Put your numbers first if they are great
46:56	Agtuary Feedback - Make your pricing clear
48:15	Ranking the second set of companies

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