Hardstart Entrepreneurs - Pitching Workshop

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Pitching Workshop

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@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

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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

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Game. Set. Pitch.

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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

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Let’s talk about the Short-form pitch. How to wow your audience and make it memorable. © Jonathan Velasquez — Unsplash License

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Intrigue your audience. Don’t tell them everything. © Drew Graham — Unsplash License

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Introduce yourself. Keep it short and sweet. © Tim Napier — Unsplash License

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What’s the problem? First you make them feel the pain. © Rob Schreckhise — Unsplash License

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How are you solving the problem? Then make them see the light. © Diego PH — Unsplash License

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KISS Keep it simple, silly. © Michał Grosicki — Unsplash License

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Demo? Demo! If a picture is worth a thousands words, a demo is worth a thousand pictures. © Ian Robinson — Unsplash License

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How do you stand out from your competitors? What’s your key diﬀerentiator? Why you and not someone else? © Salvatore Ventura — Unsplash License

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(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

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What’s the market opportunity? How many people are in your target audience? Why now? © Gianandrea Villa — Unsplash License

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Who’s on your team? How many co-founders? What do you they bring to the table? © Rawpixel — Unsplash License

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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

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Keep the energy up! Be memorable like Steve Ballmer. © Miriam Höschele — Unsplash License

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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