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What are the 10 slides investors want to see?(And common mistakes founders make on all of them)
Pitching 101
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Company name
Tagline: 10 words that are immediately understandableInvestor Deck
Month Year
Contact Info
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What problem are you trying to solve?
• Language to be familiar with – painkillers solve a customer problem, vitamins are nice to haves
• If not a commonly understood industry, give audience context. Simple graphics are always helpful
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Your solution
How is your company going to
fix this problem?
• Simple graphics infinitely better than a wall of text
• If you are going to do a live demo – practice and have a backup plan
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Why is your team the right team?
NameCEO & Co Founder
Include relevant
experience that highlights
why you are the right
team for this startup
NameCOO & Co Founder
Include relevant
experience that highlights
why you are the right
team for this startup
Next key hireKey investors
Advisors
• Have complementary roles that make sense, list advisors if relevant and actually advising
• Next key hire shows you understand what skillset your team lacks and you have a plan to address
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Total Available Market
Serviceable Addressable Market
Serviceable Obtainable Market
What is the market opportunity?
TAM
SAM
SOM
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Who is your customer?
Demographic
Gender Age Income Location
Psychographic
Personality Interests Values Lifestyle
Use case
Pain point Problem solved Value added Way to approach
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How are you acquiring customers?
Direct
MailSEO
Campus
Tabling
Trade
showsEmail
Who is your customer?
What messaging is compelling?
Cost / process to acquire a customer?
Value from each customer?
How getting faster / cheaper / better?
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How will you make money?
What is your business model?
What are your revenue sources?
Do you know your CAC and CLV?*
What is your plan to profitability?
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Traction to date
What metrics matter to your business?
• Key metrics vary by business (# users, revenue, MRR, # transactions, ave time on site, ave basket size,
% repeat users, % paying customers, # letters of intent from B2B customers, etc.)
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Why your company is special
Dimension 1
Dim
en
sio
n 2
Feature Feature Feature Feature
• Have a holistic list of competitors; Consider indirect or future competitors
• Do you have an unfair advantage (exclusive partnerships, truly differentiated IP)?
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Terms of the raise
• If you don’t have a cap/valuation, state what you are raising and that cap/valuation is undetermined
• Include background of lead investors or other strategic investors if relevant
$3M valuation
Raising $500K, $300K committed
Use of funds
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Pitching best practices
Keep it simple
Know who you are pitching
Pitch the company, not just the product
Test your pitch
• 20+ point font, no excel tables, no wall of text
• Pitch 10 people you don’t know and then ask them what
your company does – do they get it right?
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Additional resources
Pitch to 37 Angels Follow us on twitter
• List of NYC accelerators• Lean tools• Recommended blogs• Brad Feld’s explanation of terms sheets• RRE's Steve Schlafmann's Guide to NYC Tech