Provider's Edge | Peak Performance Guide for Healthcare Entrepreneurs

Most Pitches Fail In The First 30 Seconds. Here’s Why


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Why Most Startups Fail to Land Investors (Until This Happens)


Most healthtech founders don’t fail because of a bad product.


They fail because they’re pitching the right idea in the wrong language.


This week, we pulled back the curtain on a live coaching session inside our Pitch Perfect Workshop.

Here’s what really separates fundable startups from ignored ones 👇


What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ Why the first 30 seconds of your pitch matters more than your metrics

✅ How to align your story to the 5 investor psychology profiles

✅ The #1 mistake founders make when identifying their buyer

✅ How we repositioned a founder’s pitch from "meh" to match-worthy

✅ What real traction signals actually look like for early-stage founders

✅ Why coachability is the invisible X-factor investors are screening for



Episode Timeline:


[00:00:00] - Why 90% of decisions are emotional.

[00:01:59] - AJ’s Pitch – The Graciela Device

[00:04:02] - Sabrina’s Feedback Framework

[00:06:19] - The Three Founding Personas

[00:09:37] - Go-to-Market & Pricing Concerns

[00:11:45] - Strategic Advisory & HealthTech Showdown

[00:15:17] - Summary of Coaching Takeaways

[00:20:20] - Call to Action



📣 Real Talk:

If your pitch isn’t landing the way you hoped—it’s not your fault. You were probably never taught how to reverse-engineer your message based on how investors make decisions.

That’s what we do inside our workshops, and in the HealthTech Showdown virtual stage experience.



💬 Founders:

What’s the ONE part of your pitch you’re unsure is landing with investors?

Drop it in the comments—I’ll give you a real-time fix.


📌 Resources Mentioned:

= Pitch Review (Free) – Submit your pitch script or recording for analysis at PulsePointPath.com/Pitch-Workshop

= Take the Impact Quotient Quiz – Are you truly ready to scale? ImpactQuotientQuiz.com

= Apply to Pitch or Judge – Join our next investor-matched live event at HealthTechShowdown.com



🔁 Tag a founder who needs to hear this—or a decision-maker who needs to see this in their pipeline.

Let’s stop wasting brilliant innovation on misaligned pitches.


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Provider's Edge | Peak Performance Guide for Healthcare EntrepreneursBy Sabrina Runbeck, MPH, MHS, PA-C, HealthTech Power Broker, Business Partnership Creator, Board Advisor

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