Excerpt1 from Paul Graham’s essay, How to Present to Investors: “The average startup probably doesn’t have much to show for itself after ten weeks. But the average startup fails. When you look at the ones that went on to do great things, you find a lot that began with someone pounding out a prototype in a week or two of nonstop work.” 1Your excerpter notes that the excerpt he selected above is atypical of the essay from where it was excerpted, in that it’s not Really anything to do with presenting or investors.