Storytelling for Startups and Businesses
Storytelling the indisputable truths of your business through The First Principles Pitch.
Rafferty Jackson I Storyteller I Board Member I Advisor
Nominee for 2023 Outstanding Woman in Tech Employers Award UK, Rafferty Jackson helps founders, leaders and investors tell complex deeptech stories to broader audiences through universal storytelling techniques modified for business pitch and communications formats. Rafferty also uses her many years of top tier operational experience like growing and selling Beats by Dr. Dre to Apple for $3B, scaling startups, global expansion, financing, selling, taking companies public, and Board expertise to guide high growth companies as a Board Member or Advisor.
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The First Principles Pitch
The First Principles Pitch
The First Principles Pitch
The First Principles Pitch is a how-to guide, based on universal storytelling techniques modified for business pitch and communications formats, for making a clear 5 minute pitch with an 8 slide pitch deck that will transfer your idea to your audience so they can retell your story.
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The First Principles Pitch
The First Principles Pitch
NED at Opteran Technologies, LTD. Member National Association of Corporate Directors and Certified Director, Corporate Governance, UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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The First Principles Pitch
Advisor
Advisor to Xona Space Systems, bringing positioning, navigation and timing to safe autonomy through a low earth orbit satellite constellation.
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The First Principles Pitch
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Advisor to New Vista Capital, a collection of global leaders providing strategic advice and access to capital for aerospace and US national security.
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Nominated for 2023 Outstanding Woman in Tech UK
Outstanding Woman in Tech UK Employers Awards 2023 finalists:
- Caroline S Morton, EY
- Dr Shirley Cavin, Leidos UK
- Lauren Partridge, flydocs
- Lesley Salmon, Kellogg Company
- Lisa Carpenter, Digital Futures
- Najla Said, Serco UK & Europe
- Nyree Basdeo, PA Consulting
- Paola Martins Seeger, Serco UK & Europe
- Rafferty Jackson, Opteran
- Renee Hunt, Compare the Market
- Vidhi Chugh, Atlassian
Seraphim Space Accelerator & AWS Space Accelerator May 2023
Mentor at top tier space accelerators talking about the importance of storytelling for technical founders as the guaranteed method for getting their story through the gauntlet of the Reptile Brain and the Curse of Knowledge and into the audience so the audience can retell the founder's story. If you are an accelerator for technical businesses, reach out to add storytelling techniques to your curriculum.
THINK BIG Festival April 27-29, 2023 Innovation Collective in Victoria, Texas
Featured speaker at the THINK BIG Festival by Innovation Collective in Victoria, Texas from April 27-29, 2023. THINK BIG brings together members from Victoria, Texas and brilliant minds from all over the country to connect innovation communities to global futurists to solve the most pressing local problems. This event is days of cocktail receptions, think tanks, speakers and a tech carnival.
Satellite Show 2023 Startup Space Competition
The 2023 Startup Space Competition was a standing room only event again. Thank you to our Judges and Competitors and congratulations to Magnestar for taking the top spot.