{"id":90972,"date":"2025-08-18T03:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90972\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:41:08","slug":"4-research-backed-ways-to-strengthen-your-pitch-and-get-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90972\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Research-Backed Ways to Strengthen Your Pitch and Get Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">Every week, venture investors see hundreds of beautifully designed slide decks that promise to change the world. Yet fewer than 3% of those pitches receive funding\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2021\/03\/how-venture-capitalists-make-decisions\" class=\"ContentLink_anchor__Q6_U6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit rate<\/a> lower than getting into Harvard University. Part of this low success rate is by design\u2014venture investors are inherently picky, by and large looking only for \u201chome runs\u201d that promise extremely lavish returns. But it\u2019s also true that founders don\u2019t have a rigorous approach to pitching\u2014relying instead on anecdotal lessons of previously successful pitches, advice from mentors, and other unscientific sources of advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every week, venture investors see hundreds of beautifully designed slide decks that promise to change the world. Yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-90972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}