For anyone who has a VC pitch coming up, here are the slides you will generate (whether you need them, that’s a different question):
- Fancy “Splash Screen” Overview
- Bold Statement about Changing the Way We Think
- History of the Internet – explains how everything came to be, includes a timeline chart
- Elevator Pitch for new product/company, “This changes everything” or “This is the obvious evolution”
- Strategic Quadrant grid that shows how this new product/company sits in a “niche” all by itself – also must prove why that niche is at least a billion dollar industry
- Competitive overview that shows how every other company missed the obvious billion dollar industry play
- 3 screenshots of a product that can’t usually ever be built, usually using screen grabs from the competition
- Product differentiation statements focused on Ease of Use, Connect the World, New Ways of Doing X
- If product has traffic, chart of how traffic has always gone up and to the right (axis without numbers if numbers are small
- If product has no traffic, chart from comscore for other websites in this area (opportunity)
- Team slide featuring all previous big named employers with at least two people associated with ivy league schools (one member will have a physical sciences degree called out)
- Pro forma/budget that shows how $5 million in investment leads to $ 2million loss first year and then $2-5 million in profit after 36 months. Includes line about organic traffic = 100%.
Leave a Reply