Paul O'Brien

MediaTech Ventures thesis

Raising Capital 09/02/2026 in Raising Capital , Startups The Better Startup Pitch Test: Why Most Decks Fail Before Investors Ever Say No Most pitch decks don’t fail because the startup is doomed (though I’ve explained how we know that’s the case just from how you pitch, here). They fail because the founder is thinking in PowerPoint instead of economics, incentives, and narrative logic. Every founder asks for the template to follow, as though there is some magic... 22/10/2025 in Economic Development , Raising Capital The Customer of Venture Capital Isn’t the Founder, It’s the Investor Until Cit

Sector and stage focus

• general: Investors who were founders, Austin

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