How Startups Get Suckered: The Pitch Contest

When entrepreneurs become a sideshow

Joe Procopio
6 min readJan 4, 2021

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In 20+ years of founding and selling companies, advising entrepreneurs and executives, and even back when I used to invest in startups, I’ve seen way too many entrepreneurs — both young and old, both fresh and experienced — fall for some of the same sketchy shit over and over again.

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com