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Index

Able Lending, 74–77

accelerators, 154, 157

Ackerson, Pete, 130

acquisition strategies, 36

active voice, 67

advisers, 167

in team decks, 32–33

Airbnb, 157, 223–224

Allis, Ryan, 82

ambiguity, 19, 212

analogies, in elevator pitches, 18

Andersen, Fred, 176

angel investors, 1, 10, 148, 154, 158–163

AngelList, 3, 159–161, 194, 221

Appio, Helen, 43–44

Arison, George, 118

Aristotle, 173

articles of incorporation, 220, 221

The Art of Game Design (Schell), 199

asks, 34, 209–222

closing, 220–222

how to make, 212

progress updates after, 215–218

scripting and practicing, 213

types of, 214

assumptions

articulating in pitch decks, 14

in financial models, 31

in industry stories, 47

testing/iterating critical, 11–12

traction slides on, 24

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