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Straw-Manning
- Founders "straw-man" competitors, replacing the product of competitors with more convenient ones from which to differentiate.
- Excluding real competitors, and only share competitors that are easy to differentiate.
- This happens when they are living in denial, and even claim that they don't have any competitors, which is always an illusion.
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The Ideal Competitor Slide
The headline of the competitor slide is how your company has meaningful, defendable differentiation. We sometimes call this the moat, which needs to follow at least three principles:
- Prove that your company has defendable differences from competitors.
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Advice To Follow
- Founders lose credibility because they purposely or inadvertently downplay their competitors.
- Spend the time thinking deeply about your unique insights and unfair advantages. It’s very possible you don’t have it. This step will not only help you raise, but also increase your chances ...
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The Problem With A Slide In The Pitch Deck
The Premise: Pitching a startup idea or a company to investors using the Pitch Deck.
One slide, in particular, is given the same feedback by a venture capitalist across a bunch of founders:
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The First Principle
The first principle is easy. You need to provide how your company is different from everyone else.
Most companies can get this far. This comes primarily in a mix of two flavours:
(1) How our solution is different (unique insight) or
(2) How our execution is different (
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The Straw Man
Many arguments are distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented, sometimes beyond recognition, to mean something else that can be easily attacked.
This is called the “straw man” fallacy because, like replacing a real person with a person made of straw, you’re replacing a stronger argument with...
Hollow man arguments
This is a weak case (similar to the Straw man arguments) attributed to a non-existent group: Someone will fabricate a viewpoint that is easy to contradict, then claim it was made by a group they disagree with. Arguing against an opponent which doesn’t exist is a pretty easy way to win any deb...
Gender doesn't Matter
Women are not the only ones who experience abuse.
If you’re a man in an abusive relationship, it’s important to know that you’re not alone. It happens far more than you may think.
Men can and are victims of domestic violence as well. Men normally don't report it because they are more ...
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