Presenting a project for a new business model is not an easy task. The founders tend to make a document that may have different aspects to improve.
From relying on a document explaining the technical excellence of your idea, to the lack of content or low-quality content when explaining issues such as the competition situation, the benefits to the market, the presentation of the requested investment, or even the same document order to link the terms.
In addition to a good presentation, it is necessary to know what type of investors the new protector needs, how to approach potential investors interested in capitalizing on it, have a good plot line and be able to clearly answer the questions that a potential investor may ask.
The following articles discuss each of these topics in order to offer some key messages that may be useful.
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- Respond to a VC about their initial valuation
There's a trick question that investors almost always ask, and it's guaranteed to make founders uncomfortable: "What are your valuation expectations?"
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- Attract investors with the perfect summary slide
The DocSend team found that more and more successful slides have one thing in common: a really good summary slide. In this article, we'll look at a bunch of great curated examples. Why You Need a Summary Slide As the founder of a startup, your company should be designed to make mistakes as quickly as possible. Basically, a summary slide exists to help the fundraising journey fail quickly, causing the investor to decide not to invest.
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- The slide most founders get wrong on raising.
There's one slide that almost all founders get wrong when they're putting together a pitch deck to raise money from venture capitalists. The slide is usually referred to as "the question" and is usually located towards the end of the launch pad.
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- 4 tips to find the financing that suits your company
The facts are clear: startups are finding it increasingly difficult to get funding, and even unicorns seem cornered, with many lacking both capital and a clear exit.
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- What investors need from your problem solving slide
Ideas are cheap, and nothing is so amazing that it can't be improved. However, not all problems are worth solving.
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- The competition slide in the pitch presentation
There is no startup without competitors, but you need to know how to talk about them, including how you plan to exist alongside the competition.
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- focusing
The key is that every MVP a company creates needs to be laser-focused on answering a very particular question. If you do anything more than that, it's wasted time and effort. In my experience, many startups worry about scaling too soon, wasting resources on something that may never be needed.
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- If you have more than one business model, you don't have a business model
Early-stage founders might be tempted to come up with half a dozen ways the company could make money. Don't be tempted: five untested solutions don't make a real solution.
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- Sample Presentation: Tomorrow University Presentation
Platforms for education-based startups are pretty rare, and a team of people trying to set up a completely new, remote-only university is even rarer. Tomorrow University raised around $10 million in its series A.
