TimLCooley

Author and full-time tinkerer. Currently building something I'm not qualified to build. That's usually the good part.

[TimLCooley @TimLCooley]

Built a free tool that reads your deck and scores it the way those other 48 will. Slide by slide, about a minute. Link in bio.

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At a wine tasting, the one who actually grows grapes is the one saying nothing.

Investor rooms have that person too.

Out of 50 investors, maybe 2 know your industry. You built the whole deck for them.

The other 48 decide whether you get a second meeting.

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Most self-made millionaires do not look like millionaires. Same is true in a pitch room — the guy who made his money running car washes doesn't care about your API. In a room of 50 angels, maybe 2 understand your industry. You're pitching to the other 48.

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Free samples work because unpriced things don't feel like commitments yet. Founders do this with equity — no payment, no due date, feels free — until it shows up at the closing table costing ten times what a loan would've.

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Lottery players pick numbers by feeling — birthdays, gut instinct, the one from a dream. Founders pick their raise number the same way.

The math says otherwise, and the gap between the two can cost you six figures you never saw coming.

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Saw a resume list "Proficient in Microsoft Word" in the same font size as the job title. No room left to rank anything, so nothing got ranked.

Founders do this with their One Pager. Three pages, stapled, still calling it "one page."

The limit was never about fitting. It was abo

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@Mind_Pulse_X 5

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@explorebeauty12 2208

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Pick any company. Finish this: "We make ___."

Most people get four words in and start hedging.

That's not a talking problem. It's a knowing problem.

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Elevator "close door" buttons are mostly unwired. People press anyway — feels like control.

Pitch decks have the same button: asking for a decision on the spot.

No company got funded the day it presented. What are you actually pressing?

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Everyone in an elevator faces the doors and doesn't talk to strangers. It's an unwritten rule — and breaking it to pitch someone in thirty seconds is why elevator pitches fail.

They're not for closing. They're for earning the next conversation.

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@joinmoco Anyone streaming to scan?

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@Mastermind_Sup @joinmoco Any idea when it actually goes live?!

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@BusinessUtah @Hale_Theatre Amazing can't wait!

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@BusinessUtah This was clever. Looks like a fun event!

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@SmuldersStefan send

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#SCAM @landa_app
This particular platform locks your capital up with no way to retrieve it.
Meg:"Hi Timothy, it looks like that property isn't trading yet..."
Tim:"That is not clear at all in the buying process. I could be stuck in this stage forever."
Meg:"We [know]..."

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@VerizonSupport Now 2 hours... Still no one has come back.

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@VerizonSupport Why is your support so terrible?

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@VerizonSupport 2) I have been in chat for 1.5 hours.

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@VerizonSupport This is just in the last 2 hours... Not to mention every other time I have tried to get something fixed.

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@VerizonSupport 5) I have been logged out so many times while waiting in chat.