I'm a tech founder and I'm totally comfortable talking about the actual business, product and tech, but I feel like I struggle with the first 1-2 min. self-introduction.
I've been trying to boil it down to these three points:
- why am i doing startups - abridged work history - something light, like an interest
It feels to be this part is a shot in the dark, am I thinking too much? Is there a playbook I don't know about? Should I just focus on one thing?
I'll take any suggestions!
I reached out to you guys because of your prior investment in ABC.
My name is X I spent Y years doing Z. During my time at Z, I became really aware of problem A. Now with my company, we believe we have a solution for A. I think we have the best team to solve this problem, and here’s a little bit of background on them:
There, that’s it. Repeat that every single call.