The Best Startup Pitch Decks. Original Foursquare Investor Pitch Deck 2009. Foursquare is one of the biggest, buzziest startups in New York.
Scratch that -- anywhere. The local check-in startup raised $50 million this past summer from Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. It recently reached 15 million downloads and it has been rolling out tons of new features including Lists and Radar. Foursquare has come a long way in two years. What started as a self-proclaimed "part friend-finder, part social city-guide, part social-game" has become a $600 million company. We asked cofounder Dennis Crowley for a copy of his original pitch deck so other entrepreneurs could see what Foursquare looked like in its early days.
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La idea surge a partir de un escenario hipotético: cómo vender tu proyecto a un posible inversor si te lo encuentras en un ascensor. Debes ser directo, concreto, trasmitir pasión y lograr hacerlo en menos de 3 minutos . Vivimos en una sociedad inmediata. Nunca sabes dónde y cuándo tendrás la oportunidad de presentar tu empresa , especialmente si estás buscando inversión, como ocurre estos días con cierta frecuencia a multitud de emprendedores. En esas circunstancias, nunca sabrás realmente en qué momento y bajo qué circunstancias podrías encontrarte con una persona interesada en invertir en tu compañía.
Los 'elevator pitch' no son solo importantes para poder captar inversión. Por ese motivo resulta extremadamente importante tener un discurso de 'elevator pitch' bien estructurado y aprendido para poder captar la atención de tu interlocutor en unos pocos minutos. 6 Steps to the Perfect Pitch - Pitching your business. Learn to succeed with investors--from a guy who failed.
Shortly after my college graduation, a few friends and I started a new media company. Within a few weeks we fleshed out the concept, wrote a business plan and set out to seek financing. With a little hustle, I managed to get us a meeting with a well-known investment firm to discuss the opportunity. Even though our business had yet to bring in a single dollar, and none of us had ever been the CEO of coffee shop let alone a multi-million dollar enterprise, we were all confident that we had a sure thing on our hands.
After all, our financial projections forecasted gross revenues of $200 million. We'd be rich. I remember thinking, "How hard could it be? " There was one small problem with our plan. Nothing that I read online could have prepared me for what was to come. At the beginning of the meeting one of the investors asked me to hand him a one-page executive summary review. "Really? The questions went on and on. Less is always more.