Hardstart Entrepreneurs - Pitching Workshop

On Halloween Day 2017, I organized a pitching workshop for Hardstart Entrepreneurs, a startup incubator at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands.

1. Pitching Workshop
2. @AnandChowdhary Founder/CEO, Oswald Foundation IBM Global Entrepreneur EyeFocus Accelerator Alum Speaker at TEDx, Facebook DevC Featured in HuffPost, Tubantia, AngelHack, 10+ more publications CreaTe at the University of Twente © Arvind Singh — CC BY-SA 4.0
3. 2017 2016 Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 F O U N D A T I O N
4. Game. Set. Pitch.
5. Are all pitches the same? Elevator pitch, short-form company pitch, long-form product pitch, hour-long investor pitch… © Keith Allison — CC BY-SA 2.0
6. Let’s talk about the Short-form pitch. How to wow your audience and make it memorable. © Jonathan Velasquez — Unsplash License
7. Intrigue your audience. Don’t tell them everything. © Drew Graham — Unsplash License
8. Introduce yourself. Keep it short and sweet. © Tim Napier — Unsplash License
9. What’s the problem? First you make them feel the pain. © Rob Schreckhise — Unsplash License
10. How are you solving the problem? Then make them see the light. © Diego PH — Unsplash License
11. KISS Keep it simple, silly. © Michał Grosicki — Unsplash License
12. Demo? Demo! If a picture is worth a thousands words, a demo is worth a thousand pictures. © Ian Robinson — Unsplash License
13. How do you stand out from your competitors? What’s your key differentiator? Why you and not someone else? © Salvatore Ventura — Unsplash License
14. (How) will you make money? It’s okay not to have it all figured out, but you should have some idea: it is SaaS? B2C? …? © Štefan Štefančík — Unsplash License
15. What’s the market opportunity? How many people are in your target audience? Why now? © Gianandrea Villa — Unsplash License
16. Who’s on your team? How many co-founders? What do you they bring to the table? © Rawpixel — Unsplash License
17. Your slides should be as great as your product. “If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” — Bill Gates I think that if it works great and if it feels great, there’s no harm in making it beautiful. © Drew Graham — Unsplash License
18. Keep the energy up! Be memorable like Steve Ballmer. © Miriam Höschele — Unsplash License
19. Guy Kawasaki’s The Only 10 Slides You Need in a Pitch 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint: 10 slides, 20 minutes, and contain no font smaller than 30 points. © Victor Grigas — CC BY-SA 3.0
20. The Essentials 1. Title 2. Problem 3. Solution/Secret Sauce 4. Monetization/Go-to-market 5. Competition 6. Team 7. Status/Timeline Edited for super early-stage © Marcos Luiz — Unsplash License
22. The Essentials 1. Title 2. Problem 3. Solution/Secret Sauce 4. Monetization/Go-to-market 5. Competition 6. Team 7. Status/Timeline Edited for super early-stage © Marcos Luiz — Unsplash License
24. The Essentials 1. Title 2. Problem 3. Solution/Secret Sauce 4. Monetization/Go-to-market 5. Competition 6. Team 7. Status/Timeline Edited for super early-stage © Marcos Luiz — Unsplash License
26. The Essentials 1. Title 2. Problem 3. Solution/Secret Sauce 4. Monetization/Go-to-market 5. Competition 6. Team 7. Status/Timeline Edited for super early-stage © Marcos Luiz — Unsplash License
28. The Essentials 1. Title 2. Problem 3. Solution/Secret Sauce 4. Monetization/Go-to-market 5. Competition 6. Team 7. Status/Timeline Edited for super early-stage © Marcos Luiz — Unsplash License
29. @AnandChowdhary Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub, whatever. anandchowdhary.com chowdhary.design oswaldlabs.com Slides available on Speaker Deck © Arvind Singh — CC BY-SA 4.0