by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 8: Competition Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 7: Your Advantage The investor now understands your team, the value proposition, the market, and your business model. Now she needs to understand how or what allows you to carry out plans...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 7: Your Advantage Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 6: Business Model Recall, the business model is a depiction of how the various pieces of your business come together to bring about the exchange of value between your business and the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 6: Business Model Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 5: The Market At this point the investor should fully understand what your product does and how it meets the needs or wants of the customer or customer segments. The next question in the mind...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 5: The Market Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 4: Your Solution Once you have laid out the problem (need or want) and how it affects different types of people, you have to tell the investor how you are going to address the issue with your...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 4: Your Solution Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 3: Problem or Need Now you need to introduce the investor to the problem you are solving. You cannot assume that that the investor will understand the need or consumer demand for your product...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 3: Problem or Need Statement Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 2: The Business Team I strongly recommend using the second slide to introduce your business team. Investors are curious as to the background, skills, and qualifications of the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 2: The Business Team Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Slide 1: Company Logo You want to make your introductory slide appear very professional. You will include your business name and logo. A business logo represents your overall product and brand...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Presentation Style Guide Here are some additional strategic and stylistic advice to remember when creating your slide deck: The material should be attractive Tell the big picture, but know the details You are selling, the investor is...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Slide 1: The Company Logo Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Presentation Content Your business presentation will likely be in slide format, with content (information, statistics, pictures, videos, and other graphics interspersed). Below we break down the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
[cite] Next Article: Presentation Content Back to: ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Presentation Format One of the most famous of whom is Guy Kawasaki, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. In his book, Art of the Start, Guy proposes the 10-20-30 rule for investor...
