At Henson Venture Partners, we sit through a lot of pitches. And we keep seeing the same mistake, over and over again. Founders walk in prepared. The deck is polished, the transitions are smooth, and the lines sound rehearsed. You can tell they put in the work. And yet nothing lands. Every pitch starts to blur together. "We are redefining the future of X." "We are democratizing access to Y." "We are revolutionizing the way Z works." It all sounds big and ambitious, but none o

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