EDGE with Brandon White

Be prepared to answer these four questions in your investor meetings. They're not your typical questions and you don't want to get caught off guard and blow your whole investor meeting.     The fourth one is the biggest zinger. If you're prepared to answer it with out missing a beat, you'll surely look like a rock start and likely win over investors. We bet it causes a long pau...

If you're going to raise money for your company you're going to get asked a ton of questions from your first meeting, to your second all the way through the due diligence period until you finally close your round.   Over the years I've kept a running list of questions that investors have asked me and our companies when pitching all the way through to the close and...    Questions I&...

Brian Hahn Co-founded Nomad with his business partner Noah Dentzel nine years ago. They've bootstrapped the company since it's inception with their first Kick Starter project, have not taken any investor money and have been going strong ever since 2012. And... It all started with a single product idea - an ultra-portable, minimalist charging cable. Yes, they started by making a charging...

Part 16 of our Masterclass on How to Make a Pitch Deck for Investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    You've built your investor pitch deck, lined up meetings with investors and now it's time for your investor meeting. What do you do in the meeting? These seven tips will give you the playbook to make sure you're giving you and your company the very best shot at raisi...

Part 15 of our Masterclass on How to Make a Pitch Deck for Investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    This is your last slide in your pitch deck and where you summarize your story for investors.     We explain exactly what to put on this slide and the good news is that you already have the information. It's only a matter of picking out which pieces of information to put on it....

Stress is often times looked at as a negative thing, but it's often an entrepreneur's magic. Dr. Chloe Carmichael is an expert on stress.  Dr. Chloe Carmichael is a licensed clinical psychologist. She holds a master’s degree and Ph. D. in clinical psychology from Long Island University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree and departmental honors in psyc...

Part 14 of our Masterclass on How to Make a Pitch Deck for Investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we continue with your use of Funds Slide.    This is the big moment when you get to ask for the money you need to grow your business.  The good news about this slide is that you already have this information so you can get it set up in two shakes of a lambs tail.   ...

Part 13 of our masterclass on How to Make a Pitch Deck for Investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we continue with your Team Slide.    We explain exactly what to put on your team slide to convey to investors what they're looking for in a solid team. You're telling a story through these thirteen slides and this slide sets the stage to show how the team...

Did you know that 65% of businesses fail because of a conflict between founders/business owners? Imagine that, it's not because the company has a bad product or service, not because there's no market for the product, not because pricing is off. Simple human dynamics.  Mital Makadia and David Siegel are partners at Grellas Shah LLP based here in Silicon Valley who are both intimately fami...

Part 12 of our masterclass on How to Make a Pitch Deck for Investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we continue with your Financials Slide.    We explain exactly what to put on your financials slide to convey the story investors are looking for. You're telling a story through these thirteen slides and this slide sets the stage for how much money your company...

Part 11 of our masterclass on how to make a pitch deck for investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we continue with your Barriers to Entry Slide and sometimes called Moat Slide. We explain exactly what to put on your Barriers to Entry Slide of your pitch deck, examples of types of barriers that can seperate you from your competition, and how to present it when yo...

Steven Dimmitt is an elite level rock climber, entrepreneur, and the host of The Nugget Climbing Podcast.   Steven had a pivotal moment in his life one day about a year and a half ago when he felt he was wasting away in his cubicle at work. He was working for a paycheck, but not fulfilled. He couldn't imagine a lifetime living like this.   He quit, sold everything, bought a van and started tr...

Part 10 of our mini series on how to make a pitch deck for investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we continue with your Competition Slide. We explain exactly what to put on your Competition Slide of your pitch deck and how to present it when you're meeting with investors. We also drop a high percentage tip (HPT) of a mistake you want to avoid when presentin...

Part 9 of our mini series on how to make a pitch deck for investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.   In this episode we continue with your Traction slide. We explain exactly what to put on your Traction slide of your pitch deck and how to present it when you're meeting with investors. This is the highpoint of your business's story. You've set up the problem, the solut...

Listen to this episode and learn how Tonya and Aaron turned a hemp crop into an amazing CBD business.   Mad River Botanicals products are organically grown in Vermont, full spectrum, potent, small batch, third party tested and affordably priced. About Tonya Howell Tonya is a mother of three, farmer, and entrepreneur who lives in the green mountains of Vermont. She owns and runs a CBD and wellness...

In this episode we explain exactly what to put on your Business Model slide of your pitch deck. Your business model is the mechanism through which your company generates its profit by delivering value to customers.  In it's simplist terms, your business model is your your company's story of delivering your product or service to your customers and how much money you make by doing it. What...

Part 7 of our mini series on how to make a pitch deck for investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we continue with your Market Opportunity slide and explain fives places you can look to find market analysis and research reports to put this slide together.   Best of all, these five places to find market research are free.  Use these resources and get your market o...

Entrepreneurs have so many great ideas and once they settle on building one of them into a business they find ways the product or service can solve even more problems. Hey, we're entrepreneurs, we get excited right?! However... That can get in the way of sales, profits and sometimes even leads a business to fail.    Ease drop in on a conversation Joe Tiano and I had on the this one "simp...

Part 6 of our mini series on how to make a pitch deck for investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.    In this episode we explain exactly what to put on your fifth slide, your Market Opportunity Slide. And...    We give you exactly how to set up your market slide, what to say when you are presenting to investors and...    A huge mistake to avoid that almost all entrepreneurs get wron...

Part 5 of our mini series on how to make a pitch deck for investors to raise money for your company in 13 slides.   In this episode we explain exactly what to put on your fourth slide, your Product Slide. And...   We give you exactly what to put on your product slide, what to say when you are presenting to investors and...   The mistake to avoid that almost all entrepreneurs get wrong when pitchin...

Victoria Wieck is the American Entrepreneur dream story of going from rags to riches.  She's warm, funny and fierce. About Victoria Wieck Immigrating from South Korea to America with her parents with only thirty dollars, she has built a multi-million dollar business with over $500 million in retail sales.   She shares her amazing story from a series of corporate jobs, to  starting her own com...

Travis Rosbach is the Founder of Hydroflask and now runs the Tumalo Group that helps select companies successfully source and manufacture products in China. Travis joins us in this episode to share his lessons learned from years of having his products made in China.    You get his top 7 mistakes to avoid.     If you are thinking of having products made or sourcing products for drop shipping from C...

Part 3 of our mini series on how to make a pitch deck for investors in 13 slides.    In this episode we explain exactly what to put on your second slide, your Problem Slide. And...    We give you a fill in the blank script to make it easy along with two real world examples. The first example the exact slide Airbnb used to raise money from investors and the second example from File Finder.  What is...

Travis Rosbach is the Founder of Hydroflask and now runs the Tumalo Group that helps select companies successfully source and manufacture products in China. Travis joins us in this episode to share his lessons learned from years of having his products made in China.    You get his top 7 mistakes to avoid.     If you are thinking of having products made or sourcing products for drop shipping from C...

In Part 1 (episode 107) of this mini-series we went over each slide in your thirteen slide pitch deck from a high level. Now, we're diving into the details of how to create each slide in your pitch deck. In this episode we explain how to make your first slide and how to give your elevator pitch. Listen in to get a script you can use to start perfecting your elevator pitch today. We walk thoug...