Startups often finds difficult in understanding the basic content of a slides to pitch for an idea. Here i have tried to put forward my experiences of pitching to several funding agencies and business plan competitions.
1. Company Name
YOUR COMPANY TAG LINE OR PUNCH LINE
Your Full Name
Co-Founder Name
E-Mail Address
Phone Number
2. Problem/Opportunity
Describe here the pain that you are
alleviating or the pleasure that you are
providing.
Insert an Image here related to the
problem/opportunity that you are
targeting
3. Value Proposition
Explain the value of the pain you
alleviate or the value of the pleasure
you provide.
How you are adding value using your
product or service
Why do you think the problem or the
opportunity is
Any market size data supported with
acceptable logic would be awesome
Insert an Image here related to the
size of the problem/opportunity that
you are targeting
4. Your Solution
Describe in laymen your technology,
secret sauce or magic behind your
product.
The less text and the more diagrams,
schematics and flowcharts the better.
If you have a prototype or demo, this
is the time to transition to it.
As Glen Shires of Google said, “If a
picture is worth 1000 words, a
prototype is worth 10,000 slides”.
Insert image, diagrams, schematics,
flowcharts here.
5. Business Model
Explain who has your money temporarily in
his/her pocket and how you are going to get it
into yours.
REVENUE MODEL: Explain how the business will
earn revenue and how much revenue are you
expecting.
Put a relevant image if available
6. Go-To-Market Plan
Explain how you are going to reach
your customer without breaking the
bank.
Put a relevant image if available
7. Competitive Analysis
If you think you don’t have a
customer, Look again.
Knowing your competitors is good for
business--and not just so you can
constantly outsell them. Other
companies in your industry have a lot
to tell you about your field, client
demand, and how to run your own
organization better.
When you are aware of your
competitors and learn to recognize
their value, you can constantly
improve your business and stay one
step ahead.
Put a relevant image if available
8. Management Team
You must have serious management
team
Board of directors
Board of advisors
If investors available
Brief profile of founders, key people & their roles and
the number of people in the team.
Why do you think your team can succeed?
Team
NameName
Advisors
NameName
9. Financial Projections and Key Metrics
2016 2017 2018
Revenue 100 1000 10000
Cost of Goods Sold 10 100 1000
Gross Profit 90 900 9000
Expenses
Labor 2 2 2
Marketing 2 2 2
Hardware 2 2 2
Office Expenses 4 4 4
Total Expenses 10 10 10
EBIT 80 890 8990
Taxes 0 0 0
Net Profit 70 880 8980
90
900
9000
10 10 1070
880
8980
1 2 3
Chart Title
Gross Profit Total Expenses Net Profit
10. Current Status, Accomplishments to
Date, Timeline and use of Funds
Product Present and Future
Explain the current status of your
product.
What the near future looks like
Money Breakup
And how you shall use the money you
are trying to raise
Notas do Editor
Problem/Opportunity is the hook statement which must have high magnet effect to draw attention of the audience
An image will support your statement in visualizing the pain or the opportunity that you are targeting
By the term value, simple means how big is the problem or opportunity.
Why do you think the problem or the opportunity is
Any market size data supported with acceptable logic would be awesome
INNOVATIVE FEATURES: Explain the Innovative/ Novelty/Unique features of your idea/solution.
How is your solution different from existing/competitor products/substitutes?
Here are a few simple ways to gather information about competitors to diminish their advantages and capitalize on their weaknesses:
Visit their websites regularly.
Follow them on social media.
Set Google Alerts.
Ask around.
Attend their workshops.
Network strategically.
This section is about how you’re going to make money. A lot of companies struggle with figuring out their revenue model. There’s a sense that if you build it and get users, you’ll be able to raise money. And if you can raise money, you can scale and then figure out the revenue model later. That’s fine, but I find that being able to understand the revenue model (at least the intentional revenue model) before you begin raising and spending millions of dollars building out the company is worthwhile.
When building your plan, you’ll want to talk about your market and whether you’re selling business to business (B2B) or business to consumer (B2C). You’ll want to talk about how you will sell, and through what distribution channels. Are you going to sell your product at wholesale to stores? Are you going to sell your product directly online at a retail price? Is it going to be a digital download? Is it going to be a physical product? Are you going to ship? Are you only going to sell in bulk or sell individually?
One of the most important questions to consider is: Does your product generate revenue once or does the product provide recurring revenue to your business (effectively, a subscription where you can put customers on auto-bill)? I have found, with companies like iContact, that if you can create a recurring revenue model, you can more easily and more smoothly grow your revenue.
You also need to show your user growth assumptions and your customer growth assumptions. And you want to define your unit costs—how much it costs you to produce one unit of your product. This cost can vary depending on the volume you produce. If you were just producing one, for example, it might cost $50,000, but if you were at scale and producing 10,000, it might only cost at $1,000 to produce one unit of your product.
Once you’ve shown unit cost, then you want to show unit revenue, which is how much you’ll charge for that product. If you’re charging $5,000 for a product that costs $1,000 to make at scale, there might be a great opportunity to build a profitable company.
In your financial projections, which are often the weakest section of an investor pitch (and, I think, besides the team, one of the most important), you’ll want to show your revenue assumptions—not just the results of those assumptions, but the assumptions themselves. You need to expose your cost assumptions and your expense assumptions. You should project revenue by month for at least the first 36 (if not, the first 60) months. And, of course, revenue amount minus cost is net income, so you’ll be able to show your net income by month. Then you’ll show the number of months it will take you to break even. Break even is defined as the point at which you’re making more money than you’re spending (in other words, your net income is positive). It is at the point at which you begin to break even that your aggregate amount of net loss starts to go down.
You’ll also need to talk through how much money you need to raise to reach the next milestone.
CURRENT STATUS: What is the current status of the business - ideation/under development/pilot launch/revenue generation started, etc.
If already launched, describe the traction so far.