Evan Baehr
| Evan Baehr | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, Yale, and Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist, author, entrepreneur |
| Notable work | Get Backed |
| Spouse(s) | Kristina Scurry Baehr[1] |
| Children | Cooper and Madeleine[1] |
| Website |
evanbaehr |
Evan Baehr is an entrepreneur and the author of the book Get Backed; a book that guides startups on how to raise funds for their ventures.[2][3][4][5]
Career
After graduating from Princeton University, Yale, and Harvard Business School,[6] Evan Baehr co-founded a tech company, Able,[7] that provides low interest loans to small business around the united states.[2] Baehr was also the co-founder of Outbox, a consumer internet company.[3] Reportedly, Baehr worked with the Paypal co-founder. Peter Thiel to get investment form Thiel and Floodgate Fund's Mike Maples in his first company, Outbox, Inc., and his new company, Able.[8] Evan Baehr has also worked at the White House, a hedge fund, and Facebook during the course of his career.[2]
Baehr has served on the board of the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society, the New Canaan Society, the Rivendell Institute, and Harvard Business School's FIELD Program.[1] He is also a mentor with First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund. Additionally, he cofounded the Hoover Institute’s Rising Fellows Program, Harvard Business School’s Ideas@Work, Princetonians in the Nation’s Service, and the Yale Forum on Faith and Politics. Baehr received the Lily Endowment Thesis Prize, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, and Princeton’s James Madison Fellowship.[1]
Reportedly, Baehr and the co-author of his book, Get backed,[9] featured investor presentations from 15 startups that raised $150 million. Based on their experience from this, they guide their readers on how to create pitch decks for investor presentations that are compelling enough to secure the investment.[2][3][10][6] They received further coverage when were interviewed by Harvard Business Review as experts in pitching to investors and creating pitch decks.[11][12][13] This focused on how to get an investor to raise money for a startup once the venture was ahead of the idea stage by pitching an optimized presentation.[11][12][13][14]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Evan Baehr". www.fed-soc.org. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- 1 2 3 4 Akhtar, Aqsa. "Get backed: Craft your story, build the perfect pitch deck, and launch the venture of your dreams". StartUp Beat. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- 1 2 3 "The 10 Slides Every Killer Pitch Deck Needs". Inc.com. 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ↑ "Harvard Business Review Group: Collaboration Between Press and Periodical". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ↑ Weiss, Bari. "A Case of Uncreative Destruction". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- 1 2 "Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015 - Alumni - Harvard Business School". www.alumni.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ↑ Perez, Sarah. "Mail Digitization Startup Outbox Relaunches As Able, A Collaborative Small Business Loan Provider". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ↑ http://austininno.streetwise.co/2015/11/17/get-backed-new-book-by-austins-evan-baehr-and-evan-loomis-is-top-seller/
- ↑ "Amazon.com: Evan Loomis: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ↑ "3 Fundraising Mistakes First-Time Startup Founders Make". Fast Company. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- 1 2 "Slide Deck Presentations Don't Have to Be Terrible". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- 1 2 "Fundraising for My Startup Almost Wrecked My Marriage". catalystconference.com. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- 1 2 "Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015 - Alumni - Harvard Business School". www.alumni.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ↑ Akhtar, Aqsa. "Get backed: Craft your story, build the perfect pitch deck, and launch the venture of your dreams". StartUp Beat. Retrieved 2015-12-15.