Pick My Brain with Alan Jones

Founders learn how to pitch their startup better, with Australia’s best startup pitch coach Alan Jones

Founders learn how to pitch their startup better, with Australia’s best startup pitch coach Alan Jones

Hosted by Alan ‘the nice one’ Jones, Pick My Brain is a Day One
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Why Investors Keep Saying No (And What to Do About It) | Justin Wastnage from Vloggi

Justin Wastnage is the founder and CEO of Vloggi, a platform that transforms everyday mobile phone footage into trusted, structured, legally owned video assets for businesses and enterprises. What started as a tool for tourism boards to crowdsource location content has evolved, through COVID, multiple pivots, and years of customer-funded development, into an infrastructure layer that verifies, structures and processes video for some of the world's most compliance-heavy industries. In this episode, Justin joins Alan to talk honestly about the challenges of pitching a business that investors think they already know. Vloggi has worked with Major League Baseball, Netflix, the NSW Government, Google Ads and RFK's presidential campaign, yet raising in Australia remains stubbornly difficult. Alan digs into why that is and what Justin can do about it, from repositioning the pitch, to rebranding, to putting someone else in the room. If you're a founder who has pivoted hard but can't shake what investors remember about your old story, this one is for you.

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