
Episode 5: Bill Trevillyan
Startup Stories from the Treehouse
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How I Learned to Pitch and Fail
The CEO business plan competition on campus was just basically an annual competition but you guys have kind of a forcing function where you had ideas you could work them out do the work beforehand and then pitch. How many years did you do that and did you feel like you got better over that time period? Yeah I probably competed in that competition three or four times over the course of five years and honestly there was a handful of other business plan competitions I participated in during that time as well. Honestly I was really good at product and finance I guess had an intuition into numbers so it's hard communicating your idea clearly to somebody and convincing them that it has merit is a very difficult skill and one that I
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