When Deb Gabor received a call from the Fyre Festival to help them find sponsors, she was dubious. The fact that this was April and the festival was occurring in just weeks didn’t help. But what really raised red flags was the music festival’s investor pitch book. Gabor, an advisor on investor solicitation and author of the book “Branding is Sex: Get Customers Laid and Sell The Hell Out of Anything,” said the event organizers efforts at scrambling to raise money was doomed before it started. Fyre Festival establishes a benchmark for how not to build an investor pitch, says…
Fyre Festival Shines Light On How Not To Produce An Investor Pitch Book,
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.