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How to find Angel/Early stage pitch events
We are an early stage company with a working product. We would love to gain some seed funding to help us market the product. However, we seem to hear about pitch events either in the paper or past ...
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Classical Business Plan vs Pitch Deck
I have recently read the book "Hit the Deck" by David Ronick, which suggests not to write a classical business plan and instead start with the pitch deck.
This is based on the argument that writing ...
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Investor Q&A Readiness
We are an early stage web startup, and do not have anyone with deep financial experience on our team. Is not a likely option at this point.
We are pitching to investors in a contest setting next ...
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'Using' others' ideas - what's the legality?
So a bunch of friends are always pitching ideas to each other.
One day, one of my friends does one of these "this would be a great idea for a site". It's blown off as another of his 'ideas', but to ...
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How can a first time entrepreneur pitch himself to an investor?
The founding/management team is one of the critical areas investors look at in a startup. Usually the team is more important than the idea/product.
Investors like to see a proven track record of ...
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How to expose my startup to seed investors instead of cold calling them?
How can I expose my startup to seed and angel investors instead of cold calling them?
Is there any way to get feedback from them?
In Silicon Valley or other major startup scenes.
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How to build personal credibility
Me and one of my fellow liked an idea. He said if I need investment for that start up, I will be happy to make. But that was more like a coffee table discussion which lasted for an hour. I think I ...
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How to Research and Determine Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM)
I'm working on the executive summary for my website idea and need to figure out the total market capitalization for the this industry.
For example, if all the yearly advertising (and other) revenue ...
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What are the elements of a one line pitch?
I've been trying to put together a one line pitch for days. Either my startup sounds too complicated or too simple. People automatically compare my startup to other websites.
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Advice for pitching an idea for an app
Me and a friend of mine are presenting an app idea because we don't have the development assets to make it ourselves. Do you have any advice before I do this? I would love to see it developed but I ...
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How to get funding without a plan?
I really don't have a "plan" right now, but have been offered a meeting to pitch to an entrepreneur that has already sold at least two companies they founded each for over 100 million. They know I ...
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How to position your pitch to investors during the pivot?
What is the correct positioning to pitch a investor of an existing startup when you are in the momentum of pivoting your current model?
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Pitching an e-learning solution
everyone.
I've made it to the second round of a business competition and now need to pitch an e-Learning concept to a panel of judges in order to secure funding.
The idea is fairly unique and ...
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Is it normal to have 0 signups after pitching a startup to dozens of journalists?
I've sent concise pitches about my startup (general, and for various features) to around 20 tech journalists from tech blogs/sites (Mashable, Techcrunch, TNW, RRW, Lifehacker, Venturebeat, etc.), both ...
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B2B or B2C, How should I represent my startup in VC pitch
My web application offers subscription service to both individuals and groups. The subscription is per user basis. Most purchasers will buy on behalf of his company (individual or group). When ...
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Pitch Deck - Financial Projections for an Internet Startup
I'm building a pitch deck for an internet startup.
I've read other financial projections and pro-formas which have quite irrelevant accounting. Our main expenses are simply server costs -- $95/month ...
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What is a reasonable amount to ask to investors?
I asked a question about this before, but things have changed.
I developed software for basketball and football teams. I have sold 32 copies @ $20 each doing virtually nothing. I wrote a few articles ...
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Going to be on national television to pitch my software - Need Advice
This Thursday I will be filming for a Canadian TV show where I will be pitching my software to 5 Canadian millionaires to invest in. The TV show won't air until September.
The software is ...
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Should I pitch on This Week in Startups when we aren't yet ready to launch?
After two years of development, our start-up is pre-beta and in an incubator. We have the chance to pitch on This Week in Startups, but I am concerned about too much publicity from potential ...
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Is there a difference between pitching as a social entrepreneur?
I know the difference between a social entrepreneur and an entrepreneur, however if those two pitch to someone for a deal, do they say something different?
Specifically in my case I am a social ...
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Will a VC review a printed copy of my deck?
I am using PowerPoint to create our deck. I believe I can make use of a few advanced PowerPoint features (like animations) to provide a more robust presentation. However, if the VC reviews a printed ...
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Small Company's time to shine [closed]
For more background on my company, see the question entitled: "A “competitive edge” for an offshore development company?"
We have landed a meeting (scheduled for about 5 days from now) with a very ...
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What shall I do at a business lunch?
I've made a proposal to a prospect and he suggested we have a 'business lunch' and eventually continue afterwords in their office.
How should I prepare for it? Any DOes and DONTs?
P.S. This is ...
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How to sell idea to schools
I have an app idea that I'm working on to help school kids with bullying. I discussed this with a local vice principal and he liked the idea. I'm a developer and am learning to develop mobile apps, ...
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How did Twitter/Quora persuade investors as they didnt/dont have a business model?
I wonder, how did Quora persuaded their investors as they don't make revenue and even they don't have any revenue model as far as I know.
The question is same again for twitter ( I know they sell ...
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how to pitch design as a competitive advantage
I'm building software for corporate customers and the space I'm in has several established competitors. Luckily, their design simply sucks. Think of the difference between using a smartphone circa ...
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What to put in to a company pitch?
We have a project we've been working on as a side project (Web based education and training application) for a few months as more of a hobby than anything. Recently we were approached by someone who ...
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Do I bring the Business Angel to the VC-Pitch?
Would it be wise to bring our Angel to the VC-pitch?
The Angel would make a good impression. He is definetely better at pitching than everyone in the team.
But what impression would it make, if we ...
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What would be the correct way of asking potential customers whether they need/like the product?
Being tired of doing stuff that turned out to be far from what users actually need, I think now it's time to ask potential users first (think lean startup mantra) before doing anything.
The idea I'm ...
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Pitch Video for Accelerator
My partner and I are considering applying to an accelerator program in NYC. The application asks for two pitch videos, one about the business and one about the team.
Just wondering what these videos ...
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What questions can I expect from investors when pitching them my idea, and where can I find the resources for those answers?
I've just applied to Y Combinator and was wondering what kind of questions I might be asked and where/how I should research to know the answers.
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How you look at all variables of a business case and decide if it's 'worth it'?
Given a business case with even a modest 20-30 variables/dimensions on which one would base the case, how does anyone going over it decide whether it is 'worth it'?
I mean if looking at a business ...
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What's a good [Dragons Den] pitching model?
Would-be start-up's pitching to VCs (at least, on Dragons Den) need to offer a % of their business, in exchange for an agreed amount of up-front capital & (sometimes) a bit of business guidance.
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I'm a terrible salesperson. What can I do about it?
I'm a designer / developer. My product is ready for beta, so my focus has to shift towards sales and marketing. My problem is that I just cannot sell. I have an irrational fear of annoying people ...
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What to focus on when pitching, product or underlying platform?
I'm working on launching a startup based on a new computing platform developed by my co-founders. The platform itself is very powerful and flexible, and we envision it being used as a foundation for ...
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Should one join local pitch programme, which will be aired on national TV?
It's something new. There is this reality tv show coming up, for candidates to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges, then get funded. The whole process will be aired in national TV several months ...
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Should VC pitch be in 2nd person or 3rd person?
Should business ideas pitched to venture capitalists be narrated in 2nd person or 3rd person?
One does not actually sell the product/service to the VC, but in a sense it does "sell" the whole ...
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Guide on writing a good business plan for a technology startup
I'm looking for advice on writing a business plan for a VC or Angel investor in the technology field. What are they looking for in a business plan/pitch?
There are some good basic guides on creating ...
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Sites for practicing/discussing marketing and pitching, etc
I'm in the awkward position my company is small, and my product is something almost totally aimed at massive medical corporations. They are very unfriendly and closed to simply phoning up and asking ...
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I have an idea for a radically different business model for a VERY longstanding, almost universally used service
I am still paying on my college loans, have a child going to a private university on partial scholarship in the fall, not great credit, low disposable income, a happy marriage, very rewarding career, ...
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How do you start your cold call pitch? What has worked for you?
How do you start your cold call pitch? What has worked for you?
Do you go straight into the product asking if they're interested?
Or
Do you get personal and ask them how they're doing.
Let me know ...
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What questions should a company expect from investors after a pitch competition?
The Northwest Entrepreneur Network's First Look Forum finale is a pitch competition followed by networking. During the competition, companies give a 5-minute presentation covering the basics: ...
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How to present and sell a business/product (one in the same) to potential buyer (bigger company) without risking them stealing my idea?
I have developed my product completely, and have built a business for the product to be able to take to market. The product is unlike anything else on the market as of now and in my opinion would work ...
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What are some good, publicly available, examples of both failed and successful elevator pitches?
What are some good examples of elevator pitches - ideally examples that represent typical successful as well as typical failed pitches? (I'm looking for examples which match what you normally might ...
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Pitching and Pitch Prep
My startup just was selected as a semifinalist in a local state-run business plan competition. I'm very excited about this, the first prize is pretty decent and would really provide some help with ...
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Is it ok to present a different pitch deck than I emailed?
I just finished a pitch deck (11 slides, with 25 slide appendix), knowing that I'll often be emailing the deck to investors to read. So it's mostly text. I'm pretty sure that if I present at a live ...
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Building Pitch Deck - Financial Projections and Metrics
I'm trying to understand how much info about projections I need to put on the pitch deck. I'm assuming investors don't want all the detail... just the high level numbers (revenue, profit, growth). Or ...
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What are some good ways for me to practice my pitch?
I'm trying to put together a pitch, and am looking for ideas on where/how to best practice giving it, before it's polished enough to show to potential investors.
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Financial model examples for downloadable content subscriptions
We're preparing a pitch deck for our startup which looks to partly make money from downloadable content. We'd like to add a subscription model for the content, and we are looking for examples of ...
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What options does a non-native English speaker have when it comes to pitching ideas in Silicon Valley?
I've heard many anecdotes telling of pitches that convince investors at parties, in elevators, while having coffee, etc... It occurs to me that all of these pitches assume that both parties speak the ...
