How Not to Pitch to a Startup

Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by tptacek on Thursday February 19, 2009 @02:33PM (#487702)

It serves the purpose of imparting a conversational style with minimal effort.

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by davi on Thursday February 19, 2009 @02:49PM (#487729)

That's right. Now, that being said, it begs the question of whether or not the style imparted is any good.

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by atarashi on Thursday February 19, 2009 @08:00PM (#488118)

If you're going to focus on style, you should use "prompts the question" or "raises the question."

http://begthequestion.info/

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by davi on Friday February 20, 2009 @09:44AM (#488707)

Yes, "begs the question" is misused all the time.

"Now, that being said, it begs the question of <whatever>" -- the sentence was tongue-in-cheek. I was illustrating, in a mocking way, the style I don't like.

Sorry for the troll.

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by atarashi on Friday February 20, 2009 @11:40AM (#488872)

Now I see. I totally missed that...

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by bdr on Friday February 20, 2009 @06:08AM (#488577)

"Prompts" sounds stilted, "raises" is an extra syllable.

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by atarashi on Friday February 20, 2009 @06:27AM (#488581)

I agree that "prompts" sounds stilted, but are you seriously advocating using something that's incorrect -- "begs" -- instead of "raises" just because it's slightly shorter?

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Re:How Not to Pitch to a Startup by bdr on Monday February 23, 2009 @02:47PM (#492085)

Yep. "Begs" isn't incorrect anymore. Your pointless battle was lost before you ever started caring.

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