“…Other scholarly work considers the effectiveness of an entrepreneur's ability to use storytelling as a strategic tool for building social capital (Baron & Markman, 2000), acquiring human and other resources (Clark, 2008;Manning & Bejarano, 2017;Martens et al, 2007;), venture legitimacy and expectations (Garud, Schildt & Lant, 2014), and in effecting venture startup (O'Connor, 2002). Despite this emerging research into entrepreneurial storytelling, very little has focused on entrepreneurial storytelling in the context of one of the most vital skills entrepreneurs must learn to master: The investor pitch (Lurtz & Kreutzer, 2014).…”