Feras Alhlou walks founders through what to do after a pitch rejection. Write down the questions you got asked, treat weak answers as learning moments, and prepare three pitch lengths: 10 seconds, 30 seconds, and 2 minutes. Build a mental FAQ list to rehearse.
How do you handle and manage rejections? As you start the business, as you're pitching, as you're getting questions from people, jot down those questions. And if you hesitate and don't come across as articulate or knowledgeable and you say, oh my God, what did I do? How did I not answer this question properly? That's a learning moment. Take that question. Instead of watching whatever's on TV that night, write down a better answer for that question, right? So now you have something in your back pocket Be prepared in your mind. Here's the pitch, the 10-second, the 30-second, the 2-minute pitch. Have a list in your mind of FAQs that you prepared, and then you're going to build on this.
