What you'll learn

  • Pitch your business in 1 sentence and under 15 seconds

  • Learn how to communicate your business ideas

  • Make your pitch clear

  • Create longer pitches including an investor slide deck

  • Tighten up your business pitch

  • After your pitch is clear, make is inspiring and relatable

Description

Learn to do an elevator pitch in 1-sentence instead of the typical 60-seconds, and expand that into a full investor pitch deck presentation. In your career as an entrepreneur, you will pitch your business many times per day, every day. "If you can't explain something to a 5-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." - Einstein CLEAR AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IS A SIGN OF YOUR PROFESSIONALISM Junior professionals typically pay less attention to the clarity and effectiveness of communication. As professionals gain experience, they realize that all forms of communication are important and work on improving theirs. That makes it easy for more senior professionals, especially investors, to recognize first-time entrepreneurs. You don't want to be cast aside because of simply not pitching your business well, but that is what happens to businesses and entrepreneurs who can't communicate their ideas.

STOP HAVING DOORS CLOSE ON YOU

Most entrepreneurs experience investors as impatient people who don't want to talk. The truth is that they are not bad or impatient people. They just can't be bothered to talk to too many beginners. They are busy and their time is precious. IMAGINE HOW GREAT IT WOULD BE IF YOU COULD SPARK INVESTOR INTEREST If you can communicate your business clearly in a way that sparks interest and even inspires potential investors, investors and venture capitalists would gladly talk to you, would ask follow up questions, and would welcome follow up meetings. That might make the difference between being shut out and getting an investment.

WHAT YOU GET IN THIS COURSE

This course will help you create an investor pitch deck. We'll work from a pitch deck example and a template. Once you understand how to write a pitch deck, you will be able to create one for your start-up. There are many pitch deck examples of different businesses in the course. As we write the pitch deck, you can use that example as a pitch deck template for your business. One of the pitch deck templates we'll work from is the pitch deck which Sequoia Capital recommends. Sequoia Capital is one of the most successful venture capital firms in the world.

AFTER THIS COURSE

You will be able to do your 60-second or 1-minute elevator pitch in 10-15 seconds while being clear, on-point, and interesting to whoever you are talking to. Whether you are making a venture capital pitch or going into a sales pitch or sales presentation, after this course, you will be able to communicate your ideas as effectively as possible and impress.

Course curriculum

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  3. 3

    • What investors look for

    • Example of a bad and rambling pitch

    • Outline of a pitch deck

    • Problem and solution sections of the pitch deck

    • Differentiation and why this approach slides

    • Business model

    • Target market size

    • Team section of the pitch deck

    • Financials
  4. 4

    • Sales and business pitch to restaurants
  5. 5

    • Fittr pitch deck and what happened years later

    • AdPushup example

    • Visuals for your presentation
  6. 6

    • Elevator pitch exercise

    • Elevator pitch exercise - answer