The Pitch Deck Template — Welcome to TheFamily. A 14-Step Guide to Being Consistently Pitch Perfect. At Techstars, I see lots of pitches.
I get them during the application process, when I first meet the companies, when I listen to presentations meant for customers, when I listen to founders pitch to investors, when I read job descriptions and at demo day. Your pitch is your message. You deliver it to all of your constituencies -- mentors, employees, investors, family and friends. It’s a misconception to think pitching is what you do just for demo day. Maybe the best advice for putting together your pitch is one of my favorite quotes, from Albert Einstein. Related: The Art of Business Pitching Has Changed. Little is more important than getting the pitch right, so here are my tips for persuading your audience that you understand it well enough. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Related: 4 Ways to Blow It When Pitching For Venture Capital 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Founders who hit each of these points really stand out.
Related: The 5 Must-Have Elements of a Flawless Pitch. Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited) October 2, 2013: October 2, 2013: Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All.”
The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Yet despite the remarkable power of this metric, it is alarming how few companies today truly understand conversion and how to optimize it.
As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all. Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. There are two reasons why customer acquisition alone is a poor place to establish your company’s competitive advantage. Optimizely Sailthru Other resources: The Startup Pitch Deck. Perfecting Your Pitch. By Garage Technology VenturesDownload PDF version 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 that enables you to connect with the head, the heart, and the gut of the investor. What is the investor most interested in? To win over the hearts and minds of investors, your pitch has to accomplish three things: These latter two issues are beyond the scope of this modest guide.
Most of the articles on pitching are generally right about the topics, even if they miss the nuance (sell, don’t explain). Nevertheless, it is useful to have a guide. Intro Slide: Team. Elevator Pitch : les conseils de Jacques Birol. [Chaque année, l'incubateur organise plus de 70 ateliers thématiques pour ses incubés et pré-incubés.
Nous avons décidé de partager avec vous les meilleurs conseils que notre DreamTeam d'intervenants y distille régulièrement. Et comme souvent en entrepreneuriat tout commence par un "pitch", il aurait été dommage de déroger à la règle pour cette série d'articles ! Échange donc avec Jacques Birol, l'un des spécialistes français de la discipline et coach à l'incubateur HEC !] 3 conseils pour réussir son pitch : Jacques Birol - Création d'entreprise & startups. Le pitch par Jacques Birol. Comment préparer le pitch de son entreprise. KOUDETAT : Investor Pitch, Once and for All [FRENCH] Boostez vos présentations. Captivez votre public - Summerschool 2014. The slide deck we used to raise half a million dollars.