Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

Tom McLeod Startup Hack

29 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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Tom McLeod tells early-stage founders to skip perfecting the product first. Instead, join angel networks and accelerators, then spend serious time on your pitch. That's how you get feedback, money, and traction.

What I do think you could do right now is if you can get into a network of, you know, angels or, you know, super friendlies, there's also so many more, you know, little accelerators and incubators and things now all over and use that to just be like, my number one goal of here is not to figure out how to build my business. It's how to pitch my business and really spend a lot of time on that. I think that's still incredibly valuable advice. Okay.