Mastering Startup Pitching

A Slide by Slide template for the construction of a substantive pitch deck presentation for start ups to present to investors.

This document provides a template and sample pitch for entrepreneurs seeking funding for their business. The template includes sections for key elements of a funding pitch such as stating the problem being addressed, the solution or business proposition, market opportunity, competition, financial projections, and founding team. The sample pitch uses this template to present a hypothetical mobile gaming startup. The document emphasizes keeping the pitch concise while demonstrating traction, market size, revenue modeling, and risks to investors. It aims to help first-time entrepreneurs structure and practice their funding pitches.

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

Sell yourself better! Create a 10-slide pitch deck using this guide to win over investors and grow your company.

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This document provides guidance on creating an effective investor pitch deck. It outlines common mistakes to avoid, such as including too many slides, wordy text-heavy slides, or false assumptions. The document recommends keeping the deck concise and telling a compelling story in 10-13 slides. It provides an outline for the pitch deck, including sections to describe the problem being solved, product/service, business model, team, financial projections, competition, and requesting investment. The purpose of the deck is to pique investors' interest and get them excited to learn more, rather than providing all the answers.

The document provides guidance on developing startup ideas and bringing them to market. It discusses two approaches to idea generation: solving problems you personally have, and finding better solutions to existing problems. It then outlines a 9-step process for taking an idea from initial development to scaling a business, including creating an elevator pitch, developing mockups, testing market need, pricing, market size, customer acquisition strategy, minimum viable product, proving product-market fit, and scaling. Examples are given for each step as they would apply to a hypothetical startup called Gleamr that provides on-demand mobile car detailing.

Learn more at https://basetemplates.com/pitch-deck-template. Build a pitch deck you can be confident will sell your investors, with our 100 zero-hassle premade eye-catching slides. They cover every essential pitch deck element you could think of and are based on an analysis of top startup pitch decks from many different industries. The template works with PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides.

This is a presentation by Alex Raczenko, EIR at Innovate Calgary in Alberta at Startup Weekend on July 12, 2013. Alex discusses the 12 key questions every entrepreneur needs to answer before raising outside capital. Following this presentation you will be able to perfect your investor pitch.

The document provides guidance on creating an effective investor pitch deck by outlining the key sections to include such as the elevator pitch, problem, solution, demo, business model, market size, competition, achievements, outlook, team, and contact information. It emphasizes highlighting the problem the business aims to solve and the impact of that problem in the problem section of the pitch deck. The business model section should also be included to explain how the company makes money by solving the problem.

This document provides an outline for a 10 slide investor pitch deck. It includes suggestions for slide layouts, key questions to answer on each slide, and words of advice. The slides cover introducing the founder and product, defining the problem and solution, traction to date, market opportunity, competitive edge, team, fundraising details, why invest now, and a summary of 3 key points. The goal is to hook the audience, showcase growth and market potential, and make the case for why investors should back the company.

Presentation from Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of Arafura Ventures, and author of "Inside Silicon Valley: How the deals get done," with a slide-by-slide approach to developing your pitch deck -- using examples from real-life winning pitch decks. Check out sample essential pitch deck slides for: . - Mission/Vision - Problem/Solution - Market size - IP - Financial projections - Management team - and more! Sponsored by Early Growth Financial Services and Cooley.

This document provides an outline for an investor pitch, listing key elements that should be included such as describing the company and product, key customers, the current market problem and how the solution solves it, details on the target market and size, competitors and how the company differs, marketing and sales strategies, and how the company will earn money. The document was created by Aisling Foley Marketing, a consultancy for technology companies, and recommends including 12 elements to have an effective investor pitch.

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

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Getting investors is the most difficult task for a startup. This presentation explains how to create a pitch deck or business plan to attract investors or venture capitalists

This presentation provides tips for creating an effective pitch deck. It discusses including key elements such as the user problem and solution, market size and opportunity, business model, competitive landscape, product details and competitive edge, team information, strategy, financial projections, and funding request. Graphics and stories should be used to engage investors. Feedback is important to improve the deck and pitch, and fundraising takes perseverance.

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With the current economic turmoil, there is a great need for startups, especially in Europe, to learn how to expand their global reach so they can diversify their markets and their risk. We'll cover the international strategy through these bases: media strategy, local investor strategy and key influcenrs. I will show students how to locate them, how to interact and influence the 'influencers'. The goal of the workshop is for startups to start thinking about going international from day one and that they start building their strategy towards world dominiation with an inexpensive budget.

Over the first 8 years of Wix, Wix infrastructure has gone a number of transformations, starting as a monolithic application server with MySQL, evolving to a service based architecture with with diverse infrastructure. Over this 8 years journey, we have learned a thing or two - some DOs and some DON'Ts. This presentation goes over the evolution of Wix architecture, with the different transformations we have done to support Wix at scale. We will share some of out insights about building a web infrastructure for over 50M users

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Slides I created for Pitch Deck seminar I gave at Samurai Startup Island in Tokyo, October 7, 2015, to help entrepreneurs craft a presentation to tell the story of their startup clearly and persuasively.

Vorlesung 8. Juni 2016, Teil 5 Inhalte: Pitching, Storytelling, Vortragstechniken, Elevator Pitch, Investoren Pitch, Businessplan-Präsentation

This document discusses an organization that provides services across agriculture, energy, water, and waste. It has experience in these sectors and develops market strategies and underwriting for investments. The document expresses appreciation for the reader's time.

This document contains forward-looking statements about the company's plans, estimates, beliefs and assumptions. It notes that actual results may differ materially from what is projected. It also discusses non-GAAP financial measures used by the company to supplement GAAP reporting and provide additional useful information. Case studies of merchant experiences are also discussed but it is noted that many factors could have contributed to reported increases, not just the company's platform.

The document provides an overview of Clorox's Q2 FY17 investor deck. Some key points: 1) Clorox has an advantaged portfolio with over 80% of sales from #1 or #2 share brands across cleaning, household, lifestyle, and international categories. 2) Clorox is pursuing a strategy focused on maximizing economic profit through brand investment, reducing waste, and growing into new categories and geographies. 3) Clorox is driving growth through innovation, portfolio management, international expansion, and digital transformation to engage consumers.

How do you successfully pitch your business to investors? As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, I've been on both sides of the funding process. Here are 7 myths of startup financing -- and the truths you should follow.

This is the hypothetical seed-stage investor deck that PRISM might have put together should they have been looking for angel investment.

The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollars for ooomf.com (now pickcrew.com) View the online version here: https://pickcrew.com/investors/

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.

An effective pitch presentation can be the difference between securing investment and/or support for your startup. Download our slide presentation, "Build a Better Pitch Deck," and gain insight on what content to include in your slides and how to design them for the most impact. This information is aggregated from leading entrepreneurship and investor sources both in Arizona and throughout the nation.

Short talk about presentations given at Startup Dynamo, a workshop held by Startup@Singapore NUS using the Learn Startup Methodology. My segment was on Presentation Design to make an impact on VCs. Many thanks to @ryanlou for the invite. And not to forget Emiland De Cubber for his amazing slide deck inspirations and invaluable advice. Disclaimer: this is a reimagination off some of Emiland's presentations. I do not make any money of this. Download for just a tweet: http://goo.gl/fbM4j Want something similar done for your next pitch? Contact me at my site: http://itseugene.me/contact/

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This document summarizes a presentation about business model innovation using Tikkia, an online network for IT professionals in Mexico, as a case study. It introduces the business model canvas created by Alex Osterwalder as a framework to understand how a company generates revenue. The presentation explores examining the target customer segments and their needs to identify business opportunities and stresses the importance of developing an action plan to implement the business model.

The document outlines Tomás Caeiro's workshop on crafting an effective pitch deck. The workshop agenda includes defining what a pitch and pitch deck are, pitch secrets and goals, and pitch format and structure. The presentation covers communicating something to someone to achieve a goal, different types of pitches, and the importance of practice, planning and anticipating questions. It provides guidance on pitch elements like problem, solution, competitors, marketing, business model and metrics. Bonus tips are given on dos and don'ts of pitching, including knowing your audience, competitor, and not giving false information.

This document provides guidance on building an effective 12-slide presentation for investors. It emphasizes focusing the presentation on the most important merits of the business through tools like a one-liner, elevator pitch, and personal story. Sample slides are outlined to convey the problem, solution, market opportunity, competitive advantages, go-to-market strategy, financial projections, team, and current status to get the investor's attention and set up the business for success.

Endeca was acquired by Oracle in 2011 for $1.1 billion. In the below presentation, Endeca Founder Steve Papa discusses his path to securing the funding that helped make the company a success. Steve also shares key lessons learned, such as the significance of macroeconomics and how fundraising efforts start long before you are actually pitching to investors.

This document provides guidance on preparing an effective investor presentation. It explains that investors will use the initial presentation meeting to evaluate entrepreneurs and eliminate those they don't believe in or trust. The key elements of a presentation are outlined as the problem being solved, the solution, the market size and growth, revenue model, current and targeted customers, distribution channels, competition, strategic partners, management team, financing needed, financial projections, and exit strategy. Presenters are advised to keep the presentation concise at around 12 slides, use visuals over text, and practice extensively to feel comfortable during the question and answer period.

Playbook on "how to build a B2B sales machine" aka how to build a "US$100M business". Delivered this talk with a few organizations including R3 Corda Seed+Series-A Startups, B Work Bali startup community. A few topics covered included: ⮞ Christoph Janz’ / Boris Wertz animal framework on how your hunting strategies differ for customers at different ARPA level ⮞ the anatomy of #growth engines ⮞ Deep dive into the #B2B outbound playbook for seed level #startups with limited budgets.

This document provides a summary of how to build a $100 million business through focusing on growth. It discusses the importance of having a growth engine to acquire customers in a sustainable way. Specifically, it outlines three main customer acquisition strategies: paid growth through advertising, viral growth by designing products for sharing, and sticky growth by retaining existing customers. The document then delves deeper into building an outbound sales funnel and playbook for hunting different types of customers in a business-to-business context on a relatively low budget through various stages of lead generation, nurturing and closing. It provides examples of tools and metrics to optimize this process.

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The document provides 10 tips for pitching a venture capital firm, including keeping the elevator pitch short at 30 seconds, focusing on the problem rather than the solution, demonstrating the solution, showing the size of the target market, outlining the business model and revenue sources, discussing any proprietary technology, comparing competitors, explaining the marketing plan, introducing the founding team, and detailing funding needs and milestones. Additional resources for startup metrics, sample pitches, and blogs are also referenced.

Successful fundraising is not abut the ability to pitch but the skill to attract investors with an authentic, plausible and highly compelling story.

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 document discusses business models and the business model canvas tool. It provides an overview of the business model canvas, explaining that it is a visual chart with nine blocks that help define a company's value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances. It then gives examples of filling out the business model canvas for some sample companies and business ideas, including a delivery startup called DELFAST, a tie company called SMART TIE, and a CRM tool called NetHunt. Each example fills out the different blocks of the canvas like key partners, activities, and revenue streams. The document emphasizes that the business model canvas is a useful framework for defining the various aspects of a business model.

The document discusses starting a venture capital (VC) backed company and provides advice from Michael Altendorf on this process. It introduces ADTELLIGENCE, a German tech company founded by Altendorf and others with a team of experts from companies like SAP, Google, and IBM. Their technology creates the basis for successful business models in areas like web 2.0 and mobile platforms. The document then provides tips on developing the idea, building a team, creating a business plan, finding investors, developing the product and market strategy, and other key steps to starting a VC backed company.

Memonic is a digital note-taking app that allows users to clip and save information from the web. It has over 20,000 users and offers both free and paid subscription plans. The company is pursuing two business models - a B2C model targeting individual users and a B2B white label model where it partners with publishers and companies to power their content clipping and sharing features. Memonic has raised $1.25 million in funding so far and is profitable with plans to expand its team and pursue additional funding. It is looking for help defining its strategy to offer its product internally within organizations as an alternative to document management systems.