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Page 1: Tie   attracting investor interest. fund raising workshop

Ingredients  of  a  good  pitch  

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What  is  the  vision?  

•  Ambi%ous    •  Focused  and  razor  sharp  

•  Simple,  no  fancy  words  

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What’s  the  fric5on  in  the  market  today?  

•  Who  is  the  customer?    

•  What  is  the  service  /  product  available  to  her  today?  

•  Why  do  current  solu%ons  don’t  work?  

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What’s  your  solu5on?  

•  Short  simple  overview  –  easy  to  explain  

•  What’s  the  difference  or  business  model  innova5on?  

•  What  is  the  hardest  problem  to  crack  and  how  are  you  solving  it?  

 •  How  easy  is  it  to  do  this?  

•  Product  demo  if  possible  

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What’s  the  market  size?  

•  Ball  park  es%mate  of  size  –  local  /  global  if  applicable  – $  – Leading  metrics  /  proxies  

•  Growth  

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What’s  the  business  model?  

•  How  will  you  make  money?  

•  What  are  the  unit  economics?  – Gross  margins  – Unit  level  EBITDA  (if  applicable)  –  Investment  required  – ROCE  

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What’s  the  trac5on  you’ve  got  already?  

•  Pre  revenue  metrics  if  nothing  else  available  

•  Revenue  – Growth  – Current  run  rate    

•  Investment  gone  in  already  

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Who  is  the  compe55on?  

•  Direct  and  subs%tutes  

•  Current  and  poten%al  e.g.  horizontals  v/s  ver%cals,  global  players  

•  How  are  you  different  from  them?  – Simple  2  by  2  oXen  helps  – Material  things  only    

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How  large  can  this  be?  

•  Long  term  view  

•  How  large  are  global  peers  –  US  /  China  – Revenue?  – Funding?  

•  Use  proxies  

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What’s  the  team  like?  

•  Founders  +  maybe  1-­‐2  management  team  

•  Educa%on  and  professional  background  

•  Core  skills/experiences  that  are  relevant  

•  Other  interests  /  passions  

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Funding  requirement  

•  What’s  the  raise?  – Don’t  over  raise  – Ball  park  1.5-­‐2X  current  run  rate  or  enough  to  last  you  for  18-­‐24  months  

•  Broad  areas  where  it  will  be  used  –  Investors  dislike  secondary  and  debt  re%rement  specially  early  on  

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Web  resources  

•  Airbnb’s  first  ever  pitch  deck  

•  LinkedIn’s  Series  B  Pitch  to  Greylock  

•  The  Ul%mate  Pitch  Deck  to  Raise  Money  for  Startups  –  Forbes    

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Financial  Model  

•  Bobom  up  but  very  simple  –  not  more  than  3-­‐4  sheets.  Gives  insight  into  how  you  are  thinking  

•  Basic  hygiene  e.g.  assump%ons  separate,  units  men%oned,  avoid  hard  code  

 •  Five-­‐six  year  horizon  

•  Not  a  GIGO  exercise    

 

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What  investors  like  to  see  

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Founders  

•  Drive,  confidence,  clarity  of  thinking,  ability  to  sell,  missionary  

•  Why  this  team  for  this  problem?  – Passion  /  personal  story  – Complimentary  skill  sets  –  Tech?  Commercial?  – Unique  insight  into  the  problem  /  market  

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Business  model  innova5on  

•  Sufficiently  differen%ated  and  not  easily  replicable  

•  Abrac%ve  economics  – High  margins  at  scale  – Capital  efficient  

•  Ability  to  scale  and  very  large  outcome  if  successful