The Close
Asking for the next step
The meeting went well. You can feel it. But 'great meeting' means nothing without a concrete next step — and asking for it is the part most founders fumble.
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The Investor Meeting
→You have 20 minutes with a partner at a top VC firm. They have seen ten thousand pitches. Your job is to make yours feel different.
Part of the quest
Entrepreneurship & Pitching
→From telling your founder story to navigating a co-founder conflict — practice the high-stakes conversations that determine whether your company exists next year. Every founder gets tested in these moments. Practice yours before they arrive.
What you'll learn from The Close
This scenario focuses on Asking for the next step — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Investor Meeting, a full interactive story inside the Entrepreneurship & Pitching quest.
Skills you'll build in Entrepreneurship & Pitching
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You're sitting across from a partner who's heard ten thousand pitches. She's already scanning for reasons to say no. Your first sixty seconds either earn the next nineteen minutes or end them.
She leans back and asks the question you hoped wouldn't come this early. It hits your weakest point — and she asked it on purpose to see how you handle pressure.
She's poking at your revenue projections. You know some of these numbers are assumptions dressed as forecasts — and she knows too. The question is whether you'll admit it or perform certainty.
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