What do I look for in a pitch? – Greylock Perspectives

Thank you Sir.... a really great article with keen insight and map-able benchmarks.
I will pass it on to my Entrepreneurial Vets.
Veterans First....ALWAYS!

Thanks for sharing this great article LCDR (Join to see).

Thank you for the feedback and the up votes!

You know we've been pursing our own startup, focused on taking the guesswork out of hiring veterans and military spouses. No more resume translators, skills translators, or other such nonsense.

After several fits and starts with big companies who seemed to be on-board, including a few signed LOIs that turned into duds, we paused to ask ourselves the critical question posed in this article, "Are we solving for a want, or a need?"

We realized we had been solving for the former.

Hiring veterans, or any other URMG (Under Represented Minority Group) is a luxury, not a must have. I'm not debating the merits of diversity on a team - this is well documented.

We realized that all companies need to hire people who bring their "A" game every day. So, we needed to change our positioning and demonstrate through evaluations that URMG hires - given a level playing field - can crush the competition and result in the most productive and enduring hires for a company.

We realized that there's one thing that the military does better than anyone, we know how to train our elite forces to be the very best, while weeding out the less qualified. We're a team of Navy SEALs and aviators working on this solution - we're taking what we apply in the war room to the board room. How you ask? That's for another post. DM me if you're interested in Beta testing.