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Hardstart Entrepreneurs - Pitching Workshop

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.

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Anand Chowdhary

October 31, 2017
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  1. @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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Let’s talk about the Short-form pitch. How to wow your

    audience and make it memorable. © Jonathan Velasquez — Unsplash License
  5. What’s the problem? First you make them feel the pain.

    © Rob Schreckhise — Unsplash License
  6. How are you solving the problem? Then make them see

    the light. © Diego PH — Unsplash License
  7. Demo? Demo! If a picture is worth a thousands words,

    a demo is worth a thousand pictures. © Ian Robinson — Unsplash License
  8. How do you stand out from your competitors? What’s your

    key differentiator? Why you and not someone else? © Salvatore Ventura — Unsplash License
  9. (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
  10. What’s the market opportunity? How many people are in your

    target audience? Why now? © Gianandrea Villa — Unsplash License
  11. Who’s on your team? How many co-founders? What do you

    they bring to the table? © Rawpixel — Unsplash License
  12. 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
  13. Keep the energy up! Be memorable like Steve Ballmer. ©

    Miriam Höschele — Unsplash License
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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