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  • The Entrepreneur's New Year's Resolution: "I Will Fix My Pitch"

       

     

        

    Here’s a New Year’s resolution for entrepreneurs:  ”I will fix my pitch.“ And here’s a suggestion on how to do this written by Bill Reichert, my colleague at Garage Technology Ventures.

     

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    Endless articles, books, and blogs have been written on the topic of business plan presentations and pitching to investors. In spite of this wealth of advice, almost every entrepreneur gets it wrong. Why? Because most guides to pitching your company miss the central point: The purpose of your pitch is to sell, not to teach. Your job is to excite, not to educate.

      

    Pitching is about understanding what your customer (the investor) is most interested in, and developing a dialog
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  An excellent high-level + slide-by-slide guide to doing a VC presentation. I'm considering seeking VC funding for a project so I'll definitely be referring back to this article.

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  A nice business plan/powerpoint formula. So, the pitch has to accomplish three things: Provide a good, clear, easy-to-repeat story—the story of an exciting new startup. Fit with other investments the individual venture capitalist has made and the invest

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  Pitches: to sell not teach, excite not educate - memorable story in ~10 slides: cover, team, company, problem, opportunity size, solution, delivery, value, secret sauce, competitive advantage, market strategy, projections, business model, requirements

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