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You Have 48 Hours To Create An Investor Pitch Deck. Here’s How To Do It

You Have 48 Hours To Create An Investor Pitch Deck. Here’s How To Do It

even better if you encountered obstacles along the way and overcame them with determination, passion and grit)

You need to answer these questions with memorable punch and with contrast against the competition.

Second: Live pitch—you can use slides if you want, but I would start by nailing your message first (see above) without slides.

In any good presentation the visual aids should reinforce the speaker as the main attraction. Often founders approach this as if their function is simply to narrate the slides. Those pitches suck.

Be prepared to go without slides. You will be instantly more memorable and the audience will focus on you.

Should you still want slides, start with one. Get your main message down to a single slide.

This is still a marketing process. Your job isn’t to communicate everything about your company. It’s to communicate the one or two things that prompt a call back.

Keep in mind that investors need two things to invest,

A compelling opportunity
Reason to believe you are the one(s) who can execute/deliver on it.
Check that your presentation delivers on both… but if you only nail one, make sure it is the opportunity. You can build reason to believe later, but if you miss the opportunity part, you wont get the chance to convince them.

Good luck!

Sramana Mitra, I run the 1Mby1M global virtual accelerator out of Silicon Valley.

Answered March 23, 2016
I would not start by looking for a pitch template on Google, I would search for a resource on what makes a business fundable and start there.

As someone who coaches thousands of entrepreneurs, I have to say that until you fully understand what makes a business fundable, you just can’t create a killer pitch no matter how hard you try.

And once you do understand what makes a business fundable, you can put each of those fundamentals on each of your slides, and your pitch will sing, even if you have never seen a great investor pitch template.

So, if I had 48 hours, I first would do a quick Self-Assessment to identify where I stand with my idea and to identify my gaps. You can use this one:

The 1M/1M Self-Assessment

Then, I would use the 1M /1M Basic Curriculum for tech entrepreneurs, particularly, its Financing module, to quickly understand how I could plug those gaps quickly.

http://1m1m.sramanamitra.com/bas

By the way, the Curriculum does have a killer pitch template, but as I said, before you get to