How to translate investor talking points into a marketing story

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Don’t Ship Your Pitch Deck to Your Website. Here’s How to Translate Your Story for Customers

Your customers don’t want to read your pitch deck. Marketing expert Emily Kramer explains how to turn your investor talking points into your website...

August 19, 2025

How to Launch Your Startup Out of Stealth, from Figma's First Marketer

Claire Butler joined Figma six months before its public launch and helped bring the design product out into the world. Here, she defangs the launch...

September 02, 2025

Building Your Best Sales Deck Starts Here

A step-by-step walkthrough for startups to build and win with their first sales deck from TalentBin's Peter Kazanjy.

September 29, 2015

The Fundraising Wisdom That Helped Our Founders Raise Billions in Follow-On Capital

First Round launched its Pitch Assist program to help founders raise follow-on capital. Here are the most important fundraising lessons we share.

May 31, 2016

Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss

Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's...

November 24, 2015

Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a...

January 14, 2021

The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder

Gloria Lin opens up about her pre-founder journey, from how to find a co-founder and early conversations, to the set of 50 questions she prototyped to...

September 30, 2019

Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company

I joined Applied Intuition as a new-grad engineer back in early 2019, when it was just a handful of us working above a bar on Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale...

June 03, 2026