If you are a startup founder and are looking to pitch to investors for raising funding, you are going to absolutely love these quotes. I have compiled these 15 quotes from seasoned investors and entrepreneurs across the world to give you useful insights into making your startup investor pitch more compelling .  "She (an entrepreneur) will use the first 5 minutes to earn the investor’s attention for the next 15 minutes, which in turn will interest the investor enough to listen for another 30 minutes." - Aaref Hilaly, Sequoia Capital   “80% of the presentations… you don’t even know what the problem is till 15 minutes into the presentation.” - Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures   "Never dismiss your competition. Everyone—customers, investors and employees—wants to hear why you’re good, not why the competition is bad." - Guy Kawasaki, Venture Capitalist   "Your goal is not to give facts, but to fascinate your investor." - Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures...

This is a guest post by Sridevi Sarkar . Sridevi leads Consumer Insights & Strategic Planning for automotive practice in Google India. She blogs at sridevisarkar.co.in . I have attended countless sessions and conferences, big & small - both within the companies I worked & outside. I have noticed mainly 3 categories of presentations that one makes: Shares one’s work (may or may not be one’s passion points) Shares one’s personal experiences/passion Shares information collated for the audience to know Most of the presentations fall in the category 3 above. In many instances, the presenter or the organizer asks us to focus on the session by saying ‘this is a laptops down session’ (or these days ‘mobiles down’), but only occasionally I have come across presenters who are able to command the audience enough so that the audience won’t get distracted to their phones or laptops. My learning from observations & experiences is that: The presenter is the key,...