Investor Pitch – Slide 13: Questions

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 13: QuestionsThe last slide should ask for investor questions. Its not uncommon for questions to last as long or longer than the presentation. If possible, you should also highlight some of the key issues addressed in the previous slides. This helps summarize...

Investor Pitch – Slide 12: Capital and Valuation

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 12: Capital and ValuationThis slide presents your request for capital and proposed valuation of the business. In the Financial Projection chapter we explained the different methods for valuing the business. You will need to propose an anticipated value for your...

Investor Pitch – Slide 11: Milestones and Funding

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 11: Milestones and FundingThis slide concerns the funding needs and the major events or milestones in the business. You will allocate available funds differently depending on the relevant stage of business development. Generally, a business will establish...

Investor Pitch – Slide 10: Financial Forecast

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 10: Financial ForecastThe financial forecast is a snapshot of the most important aspects of the financial statements. Take a look back at the Financial Projections material to refresh yourself on the content of the financial projections. The main information...

Investor Pitch – Slide 9: Marketing and Sales Plan

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 9: Marketing & Sales PlanThis slide concerns how you are going to deliver information about your product or service and, later, how you will actually transmit that product or service to the customer. Take a look at the Marketing and Sales material for a...

Investor Pitch – Slide 8: Competition

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Competition You have explained how you are going to exchange value with customers and why you will be successful at it. However, savvy investors know that even superior products and services can lose in heavily competitive markets. For example, larger competitors can...

Investor Pitch – Slide 7: Your Advantage

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 7: Your AdvantageThe 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 effectively. That is, what advantages do you have that allow you execute...

Investor Pitch – Slide 6: The Business Model

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 6: Business ModelRecall, 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 customer. For more information, refer back to the Business Model chapter for...

Investor Pitch – Slide 5: The Market

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Slide 5: The MarketAt 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 of the investor is whether this business scalable. That is, does the...

Investor Pitch – Slide 4: Your Solution

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

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 product or service. Now is the time to be a salesperson. Do not be...