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Learn How To Take A Punch: Building Your Startup Isn't A Marathon, It's A Prizefight

Learn How To Take A Punch: Building Your Startup Isn't A Marathon, It's A Prizefight

Using his own personal experience growing businesses from $0 to over $100M Brett Fox gives you practical advice to achieve success

2020

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Why Isn’t Your Startup Getting Funded?

You have a great startup idea. You may even have some traction. Yet, investor after investor you meet with keeps passing on investing in…

Oct 22

Why Isn’t Your Startup Getting Funded?

Oct 22

What Type Of Startup Usually Succeeds?

The first two startups I invested in had great technology, yet they failed. The next two startups I invested in also had great technology…

Oct 15

What Type Of Startup Usually Succeeds?

Oct 15

Why Will Your Startup Pitch Fail?

You’re able to get investor meetings. That’s great. However, none of the meetings ever lead to even a second meeting.

Sep 30

Why Will Your Startup Pitch Fail?

Sep 30

The Best Questions You Can Ask Startup Investors

You just finished pitching an investor. The meeting went well, and now the investor asks if you have any questions. Your mind goes blank…

Sep 24

The Best Questions You Can Ask Startup Investors

Sep 24

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How Do You Build A Successful AI Startup?

Over $116 billion dollars was invested in AI startups during the first half of 2025. That is over 50% of all the capital that was invested.

Sep 17

How Do You Build A Successful AI Startup?

Sep 17

Why Aren’t Investors Funding Your Startup?

You have a great startup idea. However, when you meet investors, your pitch falls flat. Then investors ghost you, and you’re left wondering…

Sep 9

Why Aren’t Investors Funding Your Startup?

Sep 9

How Do You Raise Funding In One Minute?

The typical pitch meeting is thirty minutes to one hour. But how do you pitch investors when you only have one minute to tell your story?

Aug 26

How Do You Raise Funding In One Minute?

Aug 26

How Long Does It Take To Raise Startup Funding?

Raising startup funding takes longer than it should because most startup CEOs are unprepared when they start raising funding. I know I was…

Aug 20

How Long Does It Take To Raise Startup Funding?

Aug 20

How Do You Keep Your Engineers Ahead Of Schedule?

You’ve just raised your funding and now the work (and pressure) mount. If your team doesn’t execute, you’ll be just another failed startup…

Aug 5

How Do You Keep Your Engineers Ahead Of Schedule?

Aug 5

10 Biggest Hiring Mistakes First Time CEOs Make

Successful startups are all about hiring the right team. Yet so many first time CEOs screw up their hiring, and destroy their startups.

Jul 30

10 Biggest Hiring Mistakes First Time CEOs Make

Jul 30

brett fox

brett fox

11.6K followers

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I work with startup CEOs to help them grow their businesses . I built several businesses from $0 to >$100M. Learn more at https://www.brettjfox.com

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