Evan Baehr

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]}

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