RiseUp redefines the way parents & coaches interact and prepare, develop and promote our youth for tomorrow's challenges. With our innovative use of cognitive, semantic and web technologies we provide the best available tools for personal development, coaching and recruiting anywhere.
RiseUp is currently in the process of raising it's seed round to complete its product development, launch program and a series of field marketing events.
How to make an investor pitch deck that really worksDeck Rooster
In sales, a well established principle is, before one starts pitching to a customer, one should listen to what the customer has to say. That is because if you listen carefully he will lay out his needs in front of you, letting you present your solution in a way that fits into his needs perfectly.
The principle should be equally useful while pitching to an investor while raising funds. I can’t see a reason why it won’t be. But no one seems to be suggesting “you should listen more and talk less during an investor pitch”. Probably it is assumed that we already know what investors look for in a business. Is it a rockstar team; or may be a huge market size or is it traction or a break-through technology? Or may be different investors look for different combination of those things.
Actually all of those are means towards an end. They help investors figure out something more specific and quantitative that all investors look for in a startup before investing. But what is it?
A 10x return on their investment. That is it.
That number may vary from an early stage investor to a growth stage one, but you get the point, right? Not everyone says it out loud, because it makes them look money hungry, but that is what an investor business is all about.
But, now with that knowledge, how do you tweak your pitch and your pitch deck to make an investor feel that you are offering him an investment opportunity that could deliver a 10x return? And more importantly, can your business even deliver 10x return?
The above presentation by Deck Rooster answers those questions and offers a structure (not a template) for an investor pitch deck for startups. Check it out.
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.
Play Ventures - Demystifying FundraisingPlay Ventures
What is a VC? What do they do? What do they look for? Get a crash course on VCs and learn how you can maximise your chances of getting funded, before you even have your first pitch meeting.
How To Make The Perfect Startup Pitch DeckBarcinno
Preparing for an investor presentation can be a pretty daunting task. Whether it’s your first time sending a pitch deck to investors or you’re presenting at Techcrunch Disrupt in front of 5.000 people, a solid structure is fundamental for a coherent and commanding presentation.
Communicating your message with clarity is everything. Given that you have limited time to present and captivate investors, presenting with passion, simplicity and power is paramount. We suggest that you organize your pitch deck in the following order as a general guideline. Remember, you only have a short amount of time for this pitch so practice until it’s perfect and stay focused!
Read the Complete Guide To Creating The Perfect Startup Pitch Deck here:
http://www.barcinno.com/10-slides-for-a-perfect-startup-pitch-deck/
Y Combinator Pitch Deck Template For Startup FoundersAA BB
🔮 Want more VC/investment startup pitch decks? We’ve centralised ALL succesful investor pitch decks at: https://chagency.co.uk/getstartupfunding — check all of them out
🔮 The effort is adhering to the ideology of “The Future Of Freemium” — read more here: https://chagency.co.uk/blog/ceo/the-future-of-freemium-how-to-get-peoples-attention/
🔮 Our library of pitch decks will not have any advertisement, only a signature. We are a design agency that helps SaaS CEOs reduce user churn.
Lessons we learned from designing 30+ pitch decksVisual Hackers
Everyone has their own way of communicating and this is reflected in the way they formulate their pitch deck structure. In all these journeys, we’ve learned a series of lessons that we want to share with you today, based on real-life decks we've helped build.
How to make an investor pitch deck that really worksDeck Rooster
In sales, a well established principle is, before one starts pitching to a customer, one should listen to what the customer has to say. That is because if you listen carefully he will lay out his needs in front of you, letting you present your solution in a way that fits into his needs perfectly.
The principle should be equally useful while pitching to an investor while raising funds. I can’t see a reason why it won’t be. But no one seems to be suggesting “you should listen more and talk less during an investor pitch”. Probably it is assumed that we already know what investors look for in a business. Is it a rockstar team; or may be a huge market size or is it traction or a break-through technology? Or may be different investors look for different combination of those things.
Actually all of those are means towards an end. They help investors figure out something more specific and quantitative that all investors look for in a startup before investing. But what is it?
A 10x return on their investment. That is it.
That number may vary from an early stage investor to a growth stage one, but you get the point, right? Not everyone says it out loud, because it makes them look money hungry, but that is what an investor business is all about.
But, now with that knowledge, how do you tweak your pitch and your pitch deck to make an investor feel that you are offering him an investment opportunity that could deliver a 10x return? And more importantly, can your business even deliver 10x return?
The above presentation by Deck Rooster answers those questions and offers a structure (not a template) for an investor pitch deck for startups. Check it out.
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.
Play Ventures - Demystifying FundraisingPlay Ventures
What is a VC? What do they do? What do they look for? Get a crash course on VCs and learn how you can maximise your chances of getting funded, before you even have your first pitch meeting.
How To Make The Perfect Startup Pitch DeckBarcinno
Preparing for an investor presentation can be a pretty daunting task. Whether it’s your first time sending a pitch deck to investors or you’re presenting at Techcrunch Disrupt in front of 5.000 people, a solid structure is fundamental for a coherent and commanding presentation.
Communicating your message with clarity is everything. Given that you have limited time to present and captivate investors, presenting with passion, simplicity and power is paramount. We suggest that you organize your pitch deck in the following order as a general guideline. Remember, you only have a short amount of time for this pitch so practice until it’s perfect and stay focused!
Read the Complete Guide To Creating The Perfect Startup Pitch Deck here:
http://www.barcinno.com/10-slides-for-a-perfect-startup-pitch-deck/
Y Combinator Pitch Deck Template For Startup FoundersAA BB
🔮 Want more VC/investment startup pitch decks? We’ve centralised ALL succesful investor pitch decks at: https://chagency.co.uk/getstartupfunding — check all of them out
🔮 The effort is adhering to the ideology of “The Future Of Freemium” — read more here: https://chagency.co.uk/blog/ceo/the-future-of-freemium-how-to-get-peoples-attention/
🔮 Our library of pitch decks will not have any advertisement, only a signature. We are a design agency that helps SaaS CEOs reduce user churn.
Lessons we learned from designing 30+ pitch decksVisual Hackers
Everyone has their own way of communicating and this is reflected in the way they formulate their pitch deck structure. In all these journeys, we’ve learned a series of lessons that we want to share with you today, based on real-life decks we've helped build.
Primer on raising seed capital for first time and experienced startup founders and employees. In this slideshare, I provide insight into the following questions:
-What is seed capital?
-Why should I raise?
-What is the current state of the seed market.
-Who invets in startups?
-How do I prepare?
-What is the close process?
-What are some useful resources?
A downloadable template created by VCs for founders looking to raise seed capital. Download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxnyscz93dzjbv8/Nextview_startup_pitch_deck_template.pptx?dl=0
This is the handout from a presentation that I made at a startups workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. I was amazed at the lack of clarity that most of the participants had in their "pitches" and the lack of understanding of the need to tailor your pitch to the audience, as well as your own objectives.
Of course, the actual presentation was less wordy, and adhered to Guy Kawasaki's 30/20/10 rule as well as the 7 x7 mode of slide presentation
The Best Pitch Deck Format To Attract InvestorsBryce North
**Validated by real investors!**
Based on the Guy Kawaski format, this pitch deck layout has been proven over and over again and has helped many companies raise their investment round.
If you are looking to raise your seed round, impress investors, and build a high-quality investment deck, then make sure you follow this format. This is the best pitch deck template available today.
Find more great resources here --> www.dontbealittlepitch.com
A simple investor pitch deck template with examples designed to simplify the process for entrepreneurs develop their investor pitch deck's quickly and easily.
This is part of a series of presentations:
1. One pager
2. 12–15 slide pitch deck
3. 50–60 back-up slides
4. Due diligence
This document is focused on the second part of the series which is just the pitch deck itself.
The SaaS Founder’s Journey: What Matters at Each StageDavid Skok
From a talk given at SaaStock 2017 in Dublin, this slide deck covers the three stages of a startup, the most important question founders should be asking to ensure survival/success, and how to build and scale a sales funnel.
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.
Building the Billion dollar SaaS Unicorn for 2018Kelly Schwedland
In a Venture Capital world that is obsessed with growth, recurring revenue and software as a service, after you validate that you have a solution that people are willing to pay for, there is an entire new world ahead of you in scaling that venture. For many, this involves an entirely new language and set of metrics to manage the business. For the startup that wants to make the leap to scale up and fast growth this should serve as a starting point for key insights and metrics for that journey.
A presentation on The Art of Pitching by Kashyap Pandya - Founder & Director of Syncoro Ventures Pvt Ltd. The presentation covers the key points to be included in your pitch deck while presenting it to the prospective investors.
The Best Startup Investor Pitch Deck & How to Present to Angels & Venture Cap...J. Skyler Fernandes
Take the online video course on Udemy:
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-best-startup-investor-pitch-deck/?referralCode=A5ED0FBD65120A93A16E
3.5+hrs of video content, walking step by step each part of the pitch, with personal VC stories, examples, and advice.
The "Best" Startup Investor Pitch Deck is an aggregation of some of the best pitch decks and wisdom from some of the top angels, VCs, and entrepreneurs including my own person insight/experience. The slide deck includes a template for entrepreneurs to use to present to investors, with details on what should be addressed on each slide. There are also additional slides on how best to pitch to investors effectively, how to design and format slides, and what to do before the pitch.
The Only 10 Slides You Need in Your Pitch Deck from The Art of the Start 2.0Guy Kawasaki
The Only 10 Slides You Need in Your Pitch Deck from The Art of the Start 2.0 by Guy Kawasaki created by Visually http://visual.ly/
More about The Art of the Start 2.0 here: http://guykawasaki.com/books/the-art-of-the-start/
How To Create The Perfect Start-Up Pitch Deck The right Way for Entrepreneurs || From a VC perspective
Founders who deeply follow those recommendations will have better chance to build a defining pitch deck for VCs.
If you think you have a good pitch, send it through my way at eharfouche@polytechventures.ch
Primer on raising seed capital for first time and experienced startup founders and employees. In this slideshare, I provide insight into the following questions:
-What is seed capital?
-Why should I raise?
-What is the current state of the seed market.
-Who invets in startups?
-How do I prepare?
-What is the close process?
-What are some useful resources?
A downloadable template created by VCs for founders looking to raise seed capital. Download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxnyscz93dzjbv8/Nextview_startup_pitch_deck_template.pptx?dl=0
This is the handout from a presentation that I made at a startups workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. I was amazed at the lack of clarity that most of the participants had in their "pitches" and the lack of understanding of the need to tailor your pitch to the audience, as well as your own objectives.
Of course, the actual presentation was less wordy, and adhered to Guy Kawasaki's 30/20/10 rule as well as the 7 x7 mode of slide presentation
The Best Pitch Deck Format To Attract InvestorsBryce North
**Validated by real investors!**
Based on the Guy Kawaski format, this pitch deck layout has been proven over and over again and has helped many companies raise their investment round.
If you are looking to raise your seed round, impress investors, and build a high-quality investment deck, then make sure you follow this format. This is the best pitch deck template available today.
Find more great resources here --> www.dontbealittlepitch.com
A simple investor pitch deck template with examples designed to simplify the process for entrepreneurs develop their investor pitch deck's quickly and easily.
This is part of a series of presentations:
1. One pager
2. 12–15 slide pitch deck
3. 50–60 back-up slides
4. Due diligence
This document is focused on the second part of the series which is just the pitch deck itself.
The SaaS Founder’s Journey: What Matters at Each StageDavid Skok
From a talk given at SaaStock 2017 in Dublin, this slide deck covers the three stages of a startup, the most important question founders should be asking to ensure survival/success, and how to build and scale a sales funnel.
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.
Building the Billion dollar SaaS Unicorn for 2018Kelly Schwedland
In a Venture Capital world that is obsessed with growth, recurring revenue and software as a service, after you validate that you have a solution that people are willing to pay for, there is an entire new world ahead of you in scaling that venture. For many, this involves an entirely new language and set of metrics to manage the business. For the startup that wants to make the leap to scale up and fast growth this should serve as a starting point for key insights and metrics for that journey.
A presentation on The Art of Pitching by Kashyap Pandya - Founder & Director of Syncoro Ventures Pvt Ltd. The presentation covers the key points to be included in your pitch deck while presenting it to the prospective investors.
The Best Startup Investor Pitch Deck & How to Present to Angels & Venture Cap...J. Skyler Fernandes
Take the online video course on Udemy:
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-best-startup-investor-pitch-deck/?referralCode=A5ED0FBD65120A93A16E
3.5+hrs of video content, walking step by step each part of the pitch, with personal VC stories, examples, and advice.
The "Best" Startup Investor Pitch Deck is an aggregation of some of the best pitch decks and wisdom from some of the top angels, VCs, and entrepreneurs including my own person insight/experience. The slide deck includes a template for entrepreneurs to use to present to investors, with details on what should be addressed on each slide. There are also additional slides on how best to pitch to investors effectively, how to design and format slides, and what to do before the pitch.
The Only 10 Slides You Need in Your Pitch Deck from The Art of the Start 2.0Guy Kawasaki
The Only 10 Slides You Need in Your Pitch Deck from The Art of the Start 2.0 by Guy Kawasaki created by Visually http://visual.ly/
More about The Art of the Start 2.0 here: http://guykawasaki.com/books/the-art-of-the-start/
How To Create The Perfect Start-Up Pitch Deck The right Way for Entrepreneurs || From a VC perspective
Founders who deeply follow those recommendations will have better chance to build a defining pitch deck for VCs.
If you think you have a good pitch, send it through my way at eharfouche@polytechventures.ch
Building new products - sundar rajan - introduction (part 1)Sundar Rajan
In this talk, we will understand the challenges & risks associated with new product development. We will also learn the concept of a discovery process to minimize these risks in a systematic way.
During the talk we will build a fictious product using the discovery process to understand this methodology.
Seminar 6 Benchmarking Table - Business Model Canvas - 22 and 25 march 2021Fahri Karakas
In this seminar, we have two activities:
Benchmarking Table
Business Model Canvas.
First, we prepare our benchmarking table. In this exercise, you learn about brands at multiple levels (country brands, company brands, and individual brands). You create lessons and inspiration from these brands for your career.
Second, you create a business model canvas to create your own creative assets. You might use this activity to plan your asset creation strategies, such as creating your own YouTube channel, podcast, or Medium blog.
Enjoy.
Learn the basics of Lean Startup in this one-hour webinar , and discover how Minimum Viable Product, Innovation accounting, iteration and pivots can improve your management of uncertainty.
Getting funded sometimes seems like a career itself (and indeed it is a big part of the CEO’s responsibilities). In order to succeed, need to understand both the rules of the game and the equipment – without these you may squander some of your most valuable resources - time and relationships. Two keys communication tools are the Executive Summary and the PowerPoint Presentation (Pitch Deck). This forum will help you understand how these tools are used to generate a face-to-face meeting, make a persuasive and memorable presentation, and then follow through with the details needed for investors to begin their due diligence process.
Journey to product / market fit explained. What do the start-up's first stages look like and what you should keep in mind when identifying a problem worth solving, creating a product and getting your first customers
Half Double – An Entrepreneurial Approach to Agile Projects - Implement Consu...Wellingtone
The Half Double approach can help teams take ownership of their impact vision and deliver results much faster than normally. With just three core elements, Impact, Flow & Leadership, the method help teams and the key leadership stakeholders to focus on the essentials.
The presentation will contain case examples and tools from each element. As a conclusion we will discuss/ reflect on how you can unleash entrepreneurial power in your projects.
Henrik Sonnenberg presented at FuturePMO 2019 which is a 1 day PMO conference hosted by Wellingtone. www.FuturePMO.com
This presentation was provided by Jonathan Clark of Jonathan Clark & Partners, during Session Three of the NISO event "Agile Product and Project Management for Information Products and Services," held on May 28, 2020.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
3. Intro
- I’ve seen 1,000s of early stage decks over last 2 yrs
- Most mistakes are relatively common
- And most mistakes are easily addressed
- This is a guide to creating your pitch deck
- Warning: it’s just one investor’s advice :)
Two parts to this walkthrough:
1. Five overarching guidelines
2. An example structure & flow
5. 1. A Great One-Liner
Think of it as your elevator pitch… in one sentence.
It’s a hybrid of:
- Your product / vision
- Your company purpose
- A starting point for the pitch
Common framework: “We are X for Y”*
*assuming X is attractive and Y is a big enough opportunity!
6. 2. Know Your Audience
Before crafting a pitch deck, understand:
- Who you are meeting with?
- What is the investor’s and the firm’s focus?
- Are there related investments?
- How much time do you have?
These influence your deck, the discussion and
likely questions you’ll be asked.
7. 3. 10-15 Slides
The deck is important...
But the conversation is more important.
Budget your time accordingly.
Allow for discussion alongside each slide.
10-15 slides. Max.
Will provide suggested structure later in deck
8. 4. Beware the Demo
For early stage companies, it’s all about product.
And the best mark of product is market validation.
Demos are great… but remember these four rules:
1. Be careful of time.
2. Don’t get lost in product.
3. Have backup if (when!) something goes wrong.
4. Give even weight to product & traction / data.
9. 5. Expect the Deck to be Shared
Whether you like it or not (!),
your deck will be shared (i.e. among partnership).
Goal: be equally compelling with/without voiceover.
How?
- deck should tell its own story.
- do *not* rely on builds, intricate slides.
- make the file size manageable for email.
- PDF or secure URL are great alternatives to PPT.
11. The Flow
The Big Idea
Why you?
The current problem
Your solution. Why now?
Traction & validation
What’s the future?
The ask
12. Remember: 10-15 Slides
The Big Idea 1-2 slides
Why you? 1 slide
The current problem 2-4 slide
Your solution. Why now? 3-5 slides
Traction & validation 2-4 slides
What’s the future? 1-2 slide
The ask 1 slide
13. 1. Vision
- Expanded company one-liner
The Big Idea - The big vision: today & tomorrow
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-first-pitch-deck-foursquare- http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-a-13-billion-dollar-startups-first-
ever-showed-investors-2011-12?op=1 ever-pitch-deck-2011-9#-1
14. 2. The Team
Why are you the right team for the problem?
- Include management team and advisors, investors
- Include bios with key, relevant experience
- Outline division of responsibilities
Think an expanded
AngelList team profile
http://angel.co/visually
15. 3. The Market…
4. The Opportunity
- Customer / consumer pains?
The current problem - How are they solving today?
- How will they solve with you?
Your solution - How is it different than market?
- Why is solution possible today?
Why now? - Why is it right for today, tomorrow?
- How big is the market?
- How big can you be?
- What value are you creating?
- Be realistic!
18. 5. Your Product….
6. Your Traction
You’ve set the stage…
now show off the product and traction / validation:
I want to know:
- is the product resonating?
- is it trending in the right direction?
- engagement, engagement, engagement
engagement data > user acquisition!
- What are your KPIs? Goals?
19. ReadyForZero: Product Traction
Traction can be shown
through
acquisition, usage, rete
ntion, etc.
ReadyForZero showed
user activity as
measure of product
efficacy:
Users pay-off debt 2x
faster than non-users
20. 7. The Future: 12mo & Out
So far, you’ve spent the deck outlining team, product
and success to-date.
Now talk about what’s next…
And how it ties into the big vision and the fundraise.
What are the next 12-24 months of:
- Product - People
- Performance - Finances
21. 8. The Ask
A pitch deck cannot crescendo without a clear ask
(aka what you are looking for):
- What size investment are you looking for?
- How long does it get you?
- How will you spend it?
- What are goals before raising the next round?
- How else can the investor(s) help?
This is commonly overlooked… but easy to create!
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