Dr. Clarisse Behar Molad has over 15 years of experience as an international consultant working with start-ups, corporations, NGOs, and governments in the Balkan region. She helped create Balkan Unlimited in 2010-2011 as a result of her work with the Macedonian Government on an Innovation Initiative. The document provides tips for start-up founders on how to effectively pitch their business idea and ask for investment, including outlining the value proposition, demonstrating market viability through customer interactions, keeping presentations concise yet compelling, emphasizing the management team's experience, and maintaining a realistic view of the market opportunity.
Are you seeking investment capital for your startup? Do you need to secure additional financing to expand your business? This presentation provides a crash course in selling your business opportunity to the investment community from the investor's perspective. We cover the ins and outs of the investment process and focus on how you can create a marketable business plan that will generate buzz within the investment community for your product or service.
Every business should have a business plan. Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they're printed on.
Presentation created by Investment Manager from the Slovak startup and innovation studio. Experienced Launcher's team member, Michal Nešpor, held the speech at Startup Pirates event in Bratislava: worthful overview and explanation from the investment universe. The important aim of the presentation was to show aspiring entrepreneurs what is the business side of startups and how to understand terms as pitch, crowdfunding and investor's mindset. The worldwide event Startup Pirates is focused on such topics, at most to show new projects how to develop a business idea successfully.
Are you seeking investment capital for your startup? Do you need to secure additional financing to expand your business? This presentation provides a crash course in selling your business opportunity to the investment community from the investor's perspective. We cover the ins and outs of the investment process and focus on how you can create a marketable business plan that will generate buzz within the investment community for your product or service.
Every business should have a business plan. Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they're printed on.
Presentation created by Investment Manager from the Slovak startup and innovation studio. Experienced Launcher's team member, Michal Nešpor, held the speech at Startup Pirates event in Bratislava: worthful overview and explanation from the investment universe. The important aim of the presentation was to show aspiring entrepreneurs what is the business side of startups and how to understand terms as pitch, crowdfunding and investor's mindset. The worldwide event Startup Pirates is focused on such topics, at most to show new projects how to develop a business idea successfully.
The Ultimate Investor Pitch Deck TemplateCrowdfunder
Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their startup.
There’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.
In short, this formula involves crafting a larger story / narrative, while speaking directly to what investors are looking for and need to know about you, your company, your market, and your plan.
Business Valuations For Early Stage Companies by Hany Sewilam
Produced by ENTR "Silicon Valley" - 2020
Everything you must know about the business valuation process and how to discover the fair price for your early stage project
How to achieve product-market fit by running the experiments that matter most and building the right organization to run those experiments effectively.
A presentation reviewing the series of techniques and experiments that founders / entrepreneurs can pursue in the quest for acheiving product-market fit.
The Ultimate Investor Pitch Deck TemplateCrowdfunder
Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their startup.
There’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.
In short, this formula involves crafting a larger story / narrative, while speaking directly to what investors are looking for and need to know about you, your company, your market, and your plan.
Business Valuations For Early Stage Companies by Hany Sewilam
Produced by ENTR "Silicon Valley" - 2020
Everything you must know about the business valuation process and how to discover the fair price for your early stage project
How to achieve product-market fit by running the experiments that matter most and building the right organization to run those experiments effectively.
A presentation reviewing the series of techniques and experiments that founders / entrepreneurs can pursue in the quest for acheiving product-market fit.
Slides giving a big overview on how to master a startup pitch deck. We stress the investor pitch deck but also comment on different angles like media decks or customer decks. List of don'ts to do designing pitch slides.
This is the deck that accompanied Dave Kochbeck's webinar on July 10, 2014.
In the webinar he guided founders of all stripes through the perfect pitch. Determine what are the most important touch-points to prepare for, what you should be aware of and what you should focus in on and highlight about your exciting company. From founders seeking pre-seed to late seed funding, this is the most important Webinar you should attend.
Women 2.0's Webinars are a new event to promote new networks amongst the entire technology ecosystem in innovative cities around the world. This event is open to those who work, start, and fund tech companies. Both women and men are invited to attend.
To view our next webinar go here: http://women2.com/webinars
To apply for PITCH go here (Deadline July 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojgVtj
Women 2.0 Fall Conference in San Francisco (September 30 - October 1, 2014): http://sf.women2.com
Confused about how to get started on Pinterest? Anna Vanlandingham, of PinterestPro.com, explained how to think about getting started building your business presence on Pinterest.
here is an example investor / VC pitch deck for companies that have questions regarding pitching angel investors and VCs, in particular:
- What topics are required in a pitch deck?
- What depth of information is critical to have in the deck?
- What’s is the best flow from slide to slide?
Hera LABS is a business accelerator Helping Entrepreneurs Rapidly Accelerate through workshops, accountability groups, LABS (intense sessions of business launch & growth), and consulting. This pitch deck is a template entrepreneurs can use to prepare for angel investing meetings or general investor meetings. Every angel investor is a bit different in what they are looking for, but with this outline, you can be well prepared for those high level questions. Some angel groups require less or more information, so please check requirements before using this outline. This investor pitch deck is meant to guide entrepreneurs through the basics of a pitch, give real-life examples of companies (big and small) who do it / did it right in every topic of the pitch deck. Hope this is useful.
Pitch deck is a template for Startups to make presentations to prospective investors/angels/HNIs. It captures in 10 to 12 slides the essence of what you need to communicate.
How to fund your documentary like a startupBjarke Calvin
It's difficult to fund independent documentaries, especially if they are online, interactive and playing with new formats. But another way to approach it is to think like a startup, and consider investors, new business models etc. This is a presentation I did at iDocs in 2015.
Startup Pitch Deck Template: The Kitchen Sink AppendixNextView Ventures
The second of our templates to help entrepreneurs create better pitch decks and more successfully raise venture capital. Find the first here: http://www.slideshare.net/nextviewvc/startup-pitch-deck-templates-next-view-ventures-slideshare
Raising startup capital pitch hacks class at general assembly sf september ...VentureArchetypes LLC
How to build a killer investor presentation (aka "VC pitch deck") for raising venture capital. Part of a 3-part lecture series given at General Assembly in San Francisco by Nathan Beckord, Founder of VentureArchetypes and FounderSuite.com. Contains pitch hacks, pitch deck examples, pitch archetypes, and minimal viable pitch, as well as numerous tips and tricks.
Raising startup capital - fundraising as a process general assembly sf oct 4...VentureArchetypes LLC
How-to guide on raising startup capital (VC, angel, seed) as a structured process. Part of a 3-part lecture series given at General Assembly in San Francisco by Nathan Beckord, Founder of www.venturearchetypes.com
Customizable pitch deck templates which include two different versions, both built by leading seed investors at NextView Ventures. Entrepreneurs can use them to save time while building a pitch deck to raise seed capital.
Fake startup presentation put together by Dave McClure (500 Hats) & Wayne Lambright (Tastyr.com) for SuperNova 2007. Altho this was a fake company, the slide outline may be useful for other startups.
A pitch deck template with sample copy to help technology startups sell their business concept to angel investors and VCs. Inspired by pitch deck words of wisdom from Dave McClure (500 Startups), AirBnb, Guy Kawasaki and Venture Hacks (the folks behind AngelList).
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The art of the pitch: Pitching angels, corporate venture, VC's for investment Gregory Phipps
Some advice and tips on content and approach to "pitching" potential angel investors, corporate investors, or venture capitalists for equity investment.
Part of the MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series
http://www.marsdd.com/ent101
This presentation is also available as an audio presentation here: http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/02/14/entrepreneurship-101-wikis-and-their-role-in-communicating-your-business-idea/
There are four essential written documents that a high tech start-up needs to have as communication tools:
* the pitch deck
* the executive summary
* the business plan
* the technical white paper
This lecture will discuss what goes into each of these documents and how each should be structured.
Top Pillars | Pitching Skills by Essam Nazzal Top Pillars
https://toppillars.com
What you will learn
you will learn how to develop a better presentation skill-set, focusing on body language, delivery, confidence and communication skills. we will help you improve your public speaking and pitching skills. The training includes effective presentation techniques to allow you to present professionally and with confidence.
Throughout the training, we will giving you lots of useful ideas, tips, and techniques along the way to keep enhancing and improving on your delivery.
In this presentation we will discuss Tummax. Bringing together Entrepreneurs and Investors. Entrepreneurs with great businesses. Investors with the experience, the network and the means. It’s about building relationships between Entrepreneurs & Investors. Achieving exponential growth together.
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Follow theses proven, timeless tips and techniques to help get the word out about your business. You don't need to spend a fortune to market your small business. Use these 20 ideas to help you with your marketing and promote your brand.
Perspectives from Global Business LeadersMak Hesson
A collection of the thought leadership excerpts on Innovations, Leadership, Startups & eCommerce from the best global business leaders during the conference sessions hosted by Arcadier. In this eBook, you will find a host of topics that would benefit not only the start-up entrepreneurs but also anyone embarking on starting their own business or leading their own teams. Our distinguished speakers are from a spectrum of industry and experiences and they bring different perspective to various discussions.
I concise and easy to follow guide showing the value of design and creativity to business with some helpful tips and advice on implementing a more creative business strategy and choosing a creative partner.
Many Asian creative firms are good at working hard for their clients but are weak at evolving their own business models. I shared our insights with Singapore creative firms from Architecture, Interior and Landscape on the 16th Sept at the National Design Centre of Singapore on how they can redesign their business models to sustain global expansion. Finally as a member of DBCS Business Connect, I shared ideas on how we can enhance collaboration among us.
2. Professor of global business management
with emphasis on technology
entrepreneurship
Over 15 years experience as an international
consultant to start-ups, corporations, NGO’s
and governments
Began working in the Balkans in 2004 as
Fulbright Scholar and USAID consultant
Helped create Balkan Unlimited as a result of
work with Macedonian Government on an
Innovation Initiative in 2010-2011
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3. Business plans are useful in a world
where analysis gives you control over
the future, but in a start-up today,
even the best-laid business plans
often fall short!
You can write a beautiful 50-page
business plan without ever talking to a
potential customer.
This will NOT attract an investor…
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4. You need to persuade investors in a
very short time that your company has
the technical expertise, business
acumen and potential to develop
innovative products for a ready
market.
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5. The overall objective of the pitch is to
make a sound business case for your
company. So…
Outline the value of investment
proposition and demonstrate how
investors are going to benefit from the
company’s progress through a handful
of well-placed key messages that
resonate with investors.
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6. Show the concrete steps you have
taken to develop your
proposed/existing business
Always Identify a market opportunity
or prove you have interacted with
potential customers to demonstrate
your start-up's viability!
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7. Make sure you do your research
because knowledge is power!
You have to know your audience,
know your company and product
and most importantly, know what
you can offer your target market
in terms of their need.
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8. If the pitch is in relation to a problem
that your business/service/product
will solve, then place it in that context.
If the investors can relate to the
problem, then they are more likely to
put their money where your mouth is.
So keep it relevant, interesting and
professional.
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9. Its all in the numbers!
Make sure the facts and figures tally.
Any inconsistency will be picked on
and picked apart by any shrewd
investor.
Do not give them a reason to turn you
down.
They have choices, make sure yours is
the one that they choose!
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10. Practice makes perfect - most of the
time…
Practice allows you to feel more
confident and prepared and will help
you iron out any problems in the run-
up.
One of the ways of doing this is by
pitching to your friends, family,
teachers, etc.
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11. The pitch should flow seamlessly, using clear
and assertive words that tell a compelling
story to capture and maintain investor
interest.
The key is to simplify the story, limiting each
slide to one take-away point, paring down
excessive verbiage on slides and adding
visuals to illustrate important points.
Be sure to maintain a consistent level of
disclosure, and tone down any blatant
promotion.
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12. Arouse interest immediately by hooking the
audience with your “elevator pitch” — a
clear, 30-second description of the
company and its investment attributes —
along with a noteworthy accomplishment or
milestone that establishes credibility at the
outset.
The entire presentation should be
structured to support these key messages!
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13. Design your presentation so it’s easy to
follow
Succinctly explain your business, products
and technology or your exploration and
development strategy
Choose key investment strengths and
reinforce them
Describe your target market, business
strategy and management expertise
concluding with financials and a strong,
confident close
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14. Define the market opportunity in
realistic terms.
Investors want to know that you
understand your company’s or
product’s true market potential.
Describe the market’s size,
characteristics, growth potential and
trends.
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15. Technology investors are looking for
undiscovered companies with leading science
and intellectual property that addresses an
unmet need.
Explain the technology in very simple terms.
Where possible, use analogies to drive the point
home.
Focus on the novelty of the technology, how it
works, proof of concept, how it compares to the
gold-standard in the industry and the company’s
product development and marketing plan.
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16. Whatever stage a company is at, you must
be able to clearly articulate its goals and
long-term business plan.
If you are looking to sell or license rights to
a product, development rights to a
property, or enter into a joint venture, you
should be able to confidently convey your
strategy for doing so.
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17. Investors like management teams that can
get results, ideally made up of professionals
with a track record of successful discovery,
expertise in taking a product or project
beyond the feasibility stage, as well as
experience forming partnerships and raising
capital.
Briefly highlight management’s track record
and expertise by pointing out relevant past
accomplishments.
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18. Given that few start-up companies are
profitable, valuation may revolve around
discovery, intellectual property, or
management expertise
Investors pay close attention to the progress
of product/project development, partnerships
and, in particular, the amount of money a
company has on hand compared with its
expenditures.
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19. Always end the presentation on a high
note!
When looking for financing, specify
how much you need in this round and
how it will be used, with emphasis on
the company’s investment merits
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20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI4eOZ6
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David S. Rose on pitching to VCs on TED:
“Investing in YOU: integrity, passion,
experience, knowledge, skills, leadership,
commitment, vision, realism”
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