Free live session
Pitch or Perform
Why capital follows performance, and how to measure whether your venture is getting stronger
A free one-hour session with Dr. Tom Duening for founders connected to a university: students, alumni, faculty, staff and researchers.
- Date
- Thursday, October 22 · 12:00 PM CentralCan't make it? Also on November 5, November 19 and December 3.
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Location
- Live on Zoom
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What you'll learn
- Six signs you're pitching more than performing, and what an investor sees when they look past the deck
- How we measure a venture across 18 indicators in market, economic and capital readiness, with real examples of the evidence that counts
- The three levels of evidence behind our framework for scaling, how calibration works, and which dimension to work on first
Who's teaching
Dr. Tom Duening has spent forty years building ventures. He has founded more than ten companies, established four university entrepreneurship centers and written seventeen books. Along the way he noticed that the founders who succeeded weren't the ones with the most information. Their work with customers, numbers and hard decisions changed how they think and lead. In this session, he'll show you the system he built around that idea.
- Revenue from his ventures
- $500M+
- Founders mentored
- 1,000+
- University centers
- 4
- Books
- 17
Can't make it live? Register anyway. Everyone who signs up gets the replay.