Online Event
Cutting Through the Noise with Your Pitch
How to take your pitch from ignored to heard, understood, and felt
Date
Oct 13, 2026
Time
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Address
Online Event
Investors hear a million pitches, and most of them fall flat or—worse—are barely heard at all because they don't stand out.
Learn how to cut through the noise with startup veteran Drew Chapin, who has helped navigate the path from napkin-stage to $1m+ in revenue six different times.
To get the most out of this Pitch for Feedback event:
- Come ready for live video networking
- To prepare, start with your one-sentence pitch.
- Fill out our Elevator Pitch Worksheet.
What You'll Learn:
- How to open a pitch so the listener knows what you do in one sentence;
- The structure investors expect and the order they expect it in;
- How to talk about traction when you do not have any yet;
- The most common mistake in pitches at this stage, and the fix;
- How to handle the question you were hoping nobody would ask.
Featured Mentors:
- Drew Chapin - Partner at The Discoverability Company - Drew is a go-to-market specialist who has a 360-degree view of entrepreneurship. He has helped navigate the path from napkin-stage to $1m+ in revenue six different times with companies like Feathr, Jomboy Media, and Birthday App. Drew has also experienced huge startup failures and seen what happens when "fake it 'til you make it" goes wrong.
Who Should Attend:
- Founders preparing to pitch investors, mentors, or an accelerator;
- Idea-stage founders who have never said their idea out loud to strangers;
- Anyone who has pitched and could not tell why it did not land;
- Founders who want to learn by watching others get feedback.
Additional Resources: Find more Startup Events, sharpen your the One-Sentence Pitch, or read How to Pitch Your Startup before the session.
About Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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