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What makes a good / bad

pitchSteve Karmeinsky

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Know your audience and what they want


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Know your audience and what they want


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You’re selling yourself / company / team


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Company purpose


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Problem


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Solution


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Why now?


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Market Size


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Competition


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Product


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Business Model


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Team


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Financials


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Pitch should grab attention


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Memorable


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Just enough information


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You want the investor to want more


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Always know your how you’re going to monetise


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Never makes slides too wordy You can read

Faster than I can talk It’s information overload

Lets include a complicated graph too It’s boring A picture IS worth a thousand words

After one thousands words you’d be asleep Why didn’t I just give this as a hand-out?

Wow I can type Are you glad you’re here?

Are you bored yet? Wake-up


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Technology for Technology’s sake


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Build it and they will come


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Strategy is to exit to Google/Facebook/etc


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Build our user-base, then work out monetisation


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City Meets Tech so far


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Reasonable success rate with funding


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Next pitching event 20th June 2013 Can apply

http://citymeetstech.com/ under News http://citymeetstech.com/2013/05/applications-now-open-for-june-20th-pitch-event/

http://citymeetstech.com/


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Looking to set-up a seed fund


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Looking to set-up a seed fund

SEIS


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Thank you for listening!

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http://www.linkedin.com/groups/CityMeetsTech-4005478