FirstPitches

On this week's episode, @lolitataub and @ericbahn speak with @sidviswanathan of @truepill_rx and learn how they're building a billion-dollar startup one prescription at a time. Listen here: apple.co/30QWrCh

On this week's episode, producer @HungVPham joins show hosts @lolitataub and @ericbahn to break down last week's interview of @sidviswanathan and share their thoughts and insights. Listen here: apple.co/2OWBEef

"After you launch a prototype if you don't have the energy to figure out how to grow it and scale it and you're losing momentum at the 3-month mark, that's a really bad sign. That's a sign that this is not the idea you should be pursuing.” – Listen here: apple.co/393M2Yr

"His headline said startup enthusiast/pharmacist. I messaged him and within a few minutes, he responded. Before you know, it, there's this long LinkedIn thread over the span of several days and I said why don't we just meet up in person." Listen here: apple.co/393M2Yr

"At the early founding stages of a company, make sure your founding team has every skill set you need to build that MVP end to end. If you need to rely on outside support or development, that's an area you have to identify as a weakness." Listen here: apple.co/30QWrCh

"Whose hand would you rather place your future in? Those of a large corporate entity that doesn't give a crap about you or somebody who will always have your best interest at heart, i.e. you." - @cindygallop founder of @makelovenotporn Listen here: apple.co/3rlYwlm

On this week's episode, producer @HungVPham joins show hosts @lolitataub and @ericbahn to break down last week's interview of @cindygallop and share their thoughts and insights. Listen here: apple.co/3bAwYmL

"Yes, this is a startup with a very strong social mission, but make no mistake I want to build a billion-dollar venture for me and for you." - @cindygallop founder of @MakeLoveNotPorn Listen here: apple.co/3rlYwlm

"When today's total freedom of access to hardcore porn online meets our society's reluctance to talk openly and honestly about sex, porn becomes sex education by default in not a good way.” @cindygallop founder of @makelovenotporn Listen here: apple.co/3rlYwlm

"When you have a truly world-changing startup, you have to change the world to fit it, not the other way around." - @cindygallop, founder of @MakeLoveNotPorn Listen here: apple.co/3rlYwlm

On this week's episode, @lolitataub and @ericbahn speak with @cindygallop of @makelovenotporn and learn how she's disrupting the porn industry and changing our sex lives for the better. Listen here: apple.co/3rlYwlm

On this week's episode, producer @HungVPham joins show hosts @lolitataub and @ericbahn to break down last week's interview of @ArlanWasHere and share their thoughts and insights. Listen here: apple.co/3kny1Jg

"I scraped together just enough money for my last night of hotel. Then I was standing in a parking lot with my luggage and wondered how am I going to figure this out? Then she called and said I'm in.” – @ArlanWasHere founder of @Backstage_Cap Listen here: apple.co/3qxrtKm

"By 2014, no one invested in this fund but I knew it was one of those fork in the road moments. I needed to make a distinct decision because I couldn't have a foot in each place and do one very well.” – @ArlanWasHere, founder of @Backstage_Cap Listen here: apple.co/3qxrtKm

Congratulations to First Pitches host @ericbahn on this exciting news!

"It was convincing her that I could pull it off. I didn't have a personal bank account. I didn't have a place to go. I didn't have any connections in Silicon Valley. She just had to understand that most people would stop at that." - @ArlanWasHere, founder of @Backstage_Cap

On this week's episode, @lolitataub and @ericbahn speak with @ArlanWasHere of @Backstage_Cap and her journey disrupting the VC industry building a new kind of venture fund. Listen here: apple.co/3qxrtKm

On this week's episode, producer @HungVPham joins show hosts @lolitataub and @ericbahn to break down last week's interview of @eliast and share their thoughts and insights. Listen here: apple.co/3prfGgm

"Be persistent, check-in, say hi, how are you doing? What can I help you with? Don't just show up one day and say I need to pitch you, I need to raise money." – @eliast , co-founder and CTO of @Drift Listen here: apple.co/3sV8knw

"That investor is looking for that entrepreneur that has persistence, that scrappiness to be successful. You gotta use every mechanism available to you." - @eliast, co-founder and CTO of @Drift Listen here: apple.co/3sV8knw