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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch cover image

20VC: Why Being First To Market Does Not Matter, Why You Do Not Have Defensibility on Day 1, How to Analyse Market Size and Present it to Investors, Vitamins vs Painkillers; Do Vitamins Survive Recessions and Good vs Great Messaging with Guy Podjarny @ Sn

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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The Value of Entrepreneurship

I think there are some things that you only learn by being an entrepreneur. Fundraising is part of building the business, I like selling and I don't like deal making. My core skills revolve around the combination of empathy and analysis. The empathy into people around me also comes back to understanding what people might want to hear. If you're not good at selling, if you can't empathize enough with someone looking at the market and get your message through, I just don't think you'll be good at building the company.

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