This document provides guidance on creating an effective presentation for pitching an idea to investors. It includes tips on structuring the presentation, developing an elevator pitch, crafting a problem/solution statement, demonstrating the product, articulating the business model and market opportunity, and highlighting the strengths of the founding team. The overall message is that the presentation should clearly explain the problem being solved, how the solution works, its benefits to customers, and why the founders are qualified to execute their vision.

1. Long is LAZY Short is HARD
Lukasz Miadowicz
Intel business challenge europe 2014, vilnius
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2. Last night
was
like this …
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3. Great
Coaching
Round
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4. What
to
upgrade ?
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5. Time
is
running out …
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6. Last Minute
Tweaks
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7. 30-60
seconds
Elevator Pitch
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8. TAG
Line
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9. We are revolutionising the way people organise
themselves, share knowledge and information by
reinventing on-line collaboration.
Add what’s your product: software, hardware, wearable,
sensor, device
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10. WoW statement
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11. “We enable you to find the most relevant and recent news
instead of the 30,000,000 matches that Google shows
you. We do this by aggregating all the best news sources
onto one page and displaying the five most recent stories
from each one.”
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12. Grab your investor's attention with a
compelling hook.
Make it
funny, compelling, shocking
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13. The task of art today is to bring
chaos into order.
~Theodore Adorno @miadowicz

14. although we are not good artist like
Jackson Pollock … @miadowicz

15. We are bringing order to chaos of
online collaboration tools @miadowicz

16. PROBLEM = STORY
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17. How it works (DEMO) + benefits = solution
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18. DEMO
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19. CENTRALIZED
Benefits
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20. FAST
Benefits
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21. TRACKABLE
Benefits
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22. Testimonials
“I love THIS product, A is for … your
additionally is for …”
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23. Clear
Business model
freemium
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Price + Benefit + Time ;
Paying $79 you can use our platform for one month
Show the income due to market you want cover

24. Market
How much is it worth ?
How fast is it growing ?
How much of the market your
competitors have ?
How much market will you cover
with your solution?
How you are going to do this ?
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25. Market
For GEEKS @miadowicz

26. Market
$79 billion
Source: Cisco
+ 14 % / year
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20 %

27. Team
“We tried every single solution nothing worked”
“We know how to build scalable systems”
“We know how to build profitable business from
our previous startups”
“How to drive marketing strategy to bring
quality customers”
“Cofounders know each other for 15 years”
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28. Timeline - how you got here where
are you now & what are next
milestones
“In past three months we build our mobile app and
web app in collaboration with 100 beta testers
with very strong lean methodology culture”
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29. How much funding are you looking for?
For what ? Cost structure ?
$790.000
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30. Why are you here / who are you
looking for VC, Partners, Early
adopters, we would love
to hear feedback about our product?
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31. Good to have
TWITTER Handle on every slide
Cool fonts (Lobster Two, BEBAS NEUE, Avenir
next, Avenir Next Light )
High quality images (Flickr, Compfight…)
ONE PHOTO PER SLIDE / ONE INFORMATION PER SLIDE @miadowicz

32. Sources
• http://www.slideshare.net/slidesthatrock/slides-that-rock-
9659045
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSk3xO2-3rE
• https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/
openforum/articles/distilling-the-essence-of-your-value-proposition-
part-i-bill-reichert/?intlink=us-openf-nav-ymal-t9a7pv4r6
• https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/
openforum/articles/part-ii-a-framework-for-building-your-wow-
statement-bob-reichert/