The document provides tips for pitching to investors, including that pitching ability is important, to focus on pitching your vision rather than extra features, and to spend money only on important things and take funding from the right investors. Raising money is difficult but the best way is to not need it, and profitability provides freedom.

1. how to pitch
to investors
Sanjay Parekh, @sanjay

2. Why is pitching
ability important?

3. Andrew Magill

4. What will
you pitch?

5. © Matt Speakman, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattspeakman/

6. Nenad Stevanovic

7. What will
investors hear?

8. Domenico Nardone

9. What should
you pitch?

10. simplicity
and
beauty

11. Val Camacho

12. Sell the vision,
not the doodads.

13. John Harvey

14. David Porter

15. Raising money
is never easy.

17. Best way to
raise money is to…

18. not need it.

19. Spend on the
important.

21. Don’t spend on the
unimportant.

23. Take the
right money.

25. Just remember,
profitability = freedom