The other day, I got to sit through a lecture on getting investments from people-grabbing their interest in a second and getting them opening their wallet immediately. It was taught by some guy wearing socks and sandals, I don't really know who he was. It was a great lecture though, really got you thinking about the way to turn a compelling, decent pitch into an absolutely riveting pitch that got investors drooling. The best part of it, was that it was publicly available for free to anyone on the internet.
Boundless information like this is available at the fingertips of anyone motivated to find it. I've learned other languages, I've learned Java, I've learned to lift weights. I've learned photography. And I didn't pay for any of it.
Here's the depressing thing. This video totally changed my view of how to kill initial interactions with interested parties. Gone are notions of trying to concisely explain what I do or hand out business cards. I've had my mind blown by things like this over and over again, but it didn't blow my mind nearly as much as another statistic.
This was a great 50 minute video. How many views do you think it had? A million? five-hundred thousand? Fifty thousand?
How about less than 40?
Time and time again, I'm blown away by how much value is actually out there for free, for anyone with an internet connection and Google, but that never gets found unless someone jams it down people's throats in the form of advertising, stickied threads, basically people grabbing lazy action fakers by the back of the head and mushing their face into the pie of education. How many threads do you think we'll see on here about "how do I get investors?" in the next month on FLF?
While Too Many Cooks and Anaconda go to millions of views, gems like this are one Google away, but people are just too lazy to use the greatest educational tool since the invention of writing, the internet, to self-educate. iTunes University allows you to take courses from institutions like Yale and MIT and Oxford, for no monetary commitment and with no academic prerequisite. You can learn to code from the greatest computer scientists who have ever lived in your underwear with a beer in your hand.
I'm not going to link the pitch video, and others shouldn't either. If you want it, search for it yourself. In the meantime, all the free education you could ever want is out there. You can go get it, or you can watch another cat video.
Boundless information like this is available at the fingertips of anyone motivated to find it. I've learned other languages, I've learned Java, I've learned to lift weights. I've learned photography. And I didn't pay for any of it.
Here's the depressing thing. This video totally changed my view of how to kill initial interactions with interested parties. Gone are notions of trying to concisely explain what I do or hand out business cards. I've had my mind blown by things like this over and over again, but it didn't blow my mind nearly as much as another statistic.
This was a great 50 minute video. How many views do you think it had? A million? five-hundred thousand? Fifty thousand?
How about less than 40?
Time and time again, I'm blown away by how much value is actually out there for free, for anyone with an internet connection and Google, but that never gets found unless someone jams it down people's throats in the form of advertising, stickied threads, basically people grabbing lazy action fakers by the back of the head and mushing their face into the pie of education. How many threads do you think we'll see on here about "how do I get investors?" in the next month on FLF?
While Too Many Cooks and Anaconda go to millions of views, gems like this are one Google away, but people are just too lazy to use the greatest educational tool since the invention of writing, the internet, to self-educate. iTunes University allows you to take courses from institutions like Yale and MIT and Oxford, for no monetary commitment and with no academic prerequisite. You can learn to code from the greatest computer scientists who have ever lived in your underwear with a beer in your hand.
I'm not going to link the pitch video, and others shouldn't either. If you want it, search for it yourself. In the meantime, all the free education you could ever want is out there. You can go get it, or you can watch another cat video.
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