Description
1. Storytelling and Why it’s so Important 2. How Venture Capital Works 3. How to Design you Pitch Deck 4. What Slides will you Need? 5. Slide: The Problem – and Why it is Worth Solving 6. Slide: The Solution – and How you are Different from Other Solutions on the Market 7. Slide: The Product – What Does the Solution Actually Do? 8. Slide: Market- Where is the Market Today? Where is it Going? 9. Slide: Team – Why You are the Right People to Solve this Problem 10. Slide: Traction – How are you Measuring Your Success to Date? What Milestones Have you Hit? 11. Slide: The Moat – Why is it Hard for other Startups to do What You’re Doing? 12. Slide: Business Model – How are you Going to Make Money? 13. Slide: Go-To-Market Strategy – What’s the ‘Beach-head Audience,’ and How are you Going to Reach Them? 14. Slide: Competitors – Who Else is in the Market? How Else are your Customers Solving the Same Problem? 15. Slide: The Ask- How Much are you Raising, and What are you Going to Accomplish with that Money? 16. Slide: Timing – Why is Now is the Perfect Time to Start this Company? 17. The Take-Home Deck- Should You Have Multiple Versions of your Pitch Deck? 18. Who Should you be Talking To? Creating an Investor Lead List 19. Getting Introductions- So, How do you Get in Front of the Right People? 20. The Investment Thesis- Your Potential Investors Have a Thesis They Use to Guide Their Investments. It’s Helpful to Know What it is. 21. Further Reading – Now that you Have a Pitch, What Else do you Need to Know?
