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Pitch, networking, entrepreneurship and France-Asia business — content to help you move forward.
How do you structure a 3-minute pitch?
A successful 3-minute pitch answers three questions: what problem, for whom, and what you're looking for tonight.
Qualified networking: why 10 good meetings beat 100 contacts
Collecting business cards doesn't build a useful network. Here's what separates a meeting from a real connection.
Finding a technical co-founder when you're not a developer
Looking for a CTO at the right time, with the right pitch, radically changes your odds of finding the right person.
Raising pre-seed funding: what investors actually look at
Before metrics and business plans, a pre-seed investor evaluates how clear your next step really is.
Why Y1T rejects annual membership and exclusivity by profession
Traditional business networks impose strict regularity. Y1T keeps the benefits without the rigidity.
France-Asia business: what hospitality changes in a negotiation
Trust in France-Asia business is often built at the table, before it's built in a contract.
Why recording a podcast after your pitch can accelerate your connections
A Y1T Stories episode extends a pitch's visibility well beyond the night it was first given.
What Y1T learned organizing its first twenty events
Capacity, pitch format, catering: the adjustments that most improved the quality of the meetings.
How to write an effective introduction request
A clear introduction request doubles your odds of getting a reply and a meeting.
After the pitch: turning attention into a next step
The pitch captures attention. What you do in the following 48 hours decides whether it becomes an opportunity.