Perfecting the Pitch

Pitch

What is it – The pitch is your opportunity to present your idea to those that can help you enact it and convince them that they should invest their time and resources. You may have the best idea ever but if you can’t effectively communicate your idea’s value  to others then you probably won’t get very far.

Activity: Read “Perfecting Your Pitch” and create the pitch presentation for your proposed solution. Using a tool such as PowerPoint will be sufficient for this activity. Once you have finished this idea upload your presentation when you are completing the course evaluation survey.

The pdf below contains directions on how to build a quality pitch presentation. This guide was originally created for pitching a company idea but will work for your internal idea as well.

Perfecting Your Pitch PDF: http://www.garage.com/files/PerfectingYourPitch.pdf  

Some things to keep in mind when using this guide:

This guide was originally written for people trying to pitch a company to venture capitalists and investors. While this isn’t exactly what you’ll be doing most of the ideas and steps in this guide are relevant.

When the guide references company just replace that with idea or solution. When the guide references “VCs, Venture Capitalist, or Investors” replace that with the people you are presenting your pitch to.

Complete steps 1-4 and 10. Steps 2.1 and 3.1 are optional depending on your proposed solution. If you are unsure feel free to ask via the contact button at the bottom of this page.

The following steps are not required.

Slide 5: Secret Sauce/Intellectual Property.

Slide 6: Competitive Advantage.

Slide 6.1: Competitive Advantage Matrix.

Slide 8: Business Model.

Slide 9: Financial Projections.

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