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March 2012: Raising Capital Seminar with Ben Milne on Pitching

Dwolla CEO Explains the Art of the Pitch

Ben Milne is the CEO of Dwolla. His company is built around the simple idea that moving money should be easy, affordable, transparent and safe. In 2010, Dwolla introduced the first technology to empower seamless payments leveraging users' social networks, officially pioneering social payments. Then in 2011, Dwolla launched the world's first geo-location based mobile payments.

Pitch Success Components

  • Articulating the idea
  • Understanding next steps
  • Understanding what you don't know
  • Showing up

For Ben's full bio and contact information, click here.

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