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Creating a Business Pitch for Startup Success

4.6(2,100) on LinkedIn Learning·24K enrolled
Intermediate 2 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsPitchingStorytellingPresentation skillsFundraising basicsInvestor communication

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Dave Crenshaw's short, focused LinkedIn Learning course with one job: helping you build an investor pitch that earns a clear yes or no.

Good for: A quick, practical framework for pitching to investors or partners.

Skip if: You want an in-depth fundraising, valuation or financial-modelling course.

For that narrow purpose it's useful — structuring the story, presenting the numbers, handling the pitch in the room — and its concision is a feature when you've got a meeting coming up. It is an awareness-level primer, though, not a deep fundraising course, so if you need valuation, financial modelling or the mechanics of a raise, look further. Access comes with a LinkedIn Learning subscription (usually a free trial first; free through many libraries), with no separate one-off price. Pitching fundamentals stay relevant across funding climates (as of 2026).

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About this course

Creating a Business Pitch for Startup Success is Dave Crenshaw's short, practical ~2-hour course on LinkedIn Learning. It's focused on one job: helping you build a pitch that gets a clear yes or no from investors and partners.

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Dave Crenshaw
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Dave Crenshaw is a business coach, author and long-time LinkedIn Learning instructor known for concise, practical courses on productivity, leadership and communication.

Frequently asked questions

Not the mechanics of a fundraise — it focuses on the pitch itself: how to structure and deliver a compelling case for your idea. Investor negotiations, term sheets, and the funding process are a separate topic. So it helps you communicate persuasively to investors, customers, or stakeholders, but for the end-to-end mechanics of raising capital you would pair it with dedicated fundraising material.

No. Although framed around startup success, the skill of pitching — structuring a clear, persuasive case and delivering it with confidence — applies broadly: pitching a project internally, selling an idea to leadership, or presenting to clients. Founders are the headline audience, but anyone who needs to win support for an idea will find the techniques useful beyond the startup context.

It is short — typically an hour or two — as a focused LinkedIn Learning course rather than a deep program. That brevity makes it an efficient way to sharpen how you pitch before an actual presentation or investor meeting, without a large time commitment, and you can revisit specific parts as a quick refresher when you need them.

Not by default — it runs on LinkedIn Learning, which is subscription-based — but a free trial is common, and many public libraries and universities give members full access at no cost. Check whether a library card or an institution you belong to already provides LinkedIn Learning before paying, since that quietly unlocks this course and the whole catalogue.

For a short, practical boost to how you pitch, yes — pitching well is a genuinely valuable skill, and the techniques apply well beyond startups. Keep expectations proportionate: it sharpens delivery and structure rather than teaching the full business of fundraising. Take it for the communication skill, and combine it with real practice — pitching is learned by doing and refining, not only by watching.
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