How to pitch your startup and make a the pitch presentation of your idea to win startup competitions and get funded. Me and my team were able to win multiple startup competitions in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. What is more important, we were able to find most of our investors winning these competitions. Winnig at the startup pitch contests led us to build an amazing product http://talktochef.com/ and more importantly build a superior platform which helped multiple companies build their own online education and micro-consulting businesses using our API. So, how to pitch your startup? There are 3 main things what investors and judges are looking for and they answer one simple question: "what is there for me?": 1. Team: integrity, passions, experience, commitment, vision, skills, knowledge 2. Business model: how it’s going to scale, make money, verified, any customers? 3. Market size: how big is this opportunity, how did you calculate it, why these particular people These three parts could be explained with no slides, in 3 slides or a pitch presentation that contains a dozen slides. There are also 5 less important recommendations that answer the question "how to pitch your startup" and help strengthen the points above: 1. Show your passion – if you are not passionate about your idea, why should others care then? 2. Fewer words on slides the better - people have to focus on you, not your slides! 3. Always look at the audience - making the eye contact helps to build trust and confidence in your words. 4. Be able to explain what your startup does in 10 seconds - if you can't do it, you do not know what your geneus idea is. 5. Don’t be afraid to fail - the person who never made a mistake never tried anything new!

1. How to Pitch
your Startup
by Daniil Brodovich

2. My 1st Startup Weekend
San Francisco, USA

3. Great pitch = Funding

4. 3 main things
Startup
Team
Business
Model
Market
Size

5. Startup Team
Validación
Business
Model
Market
Size
• Why do you have this Passion?
• Do you have relevant Experience?
• Does your team have Commitment?

6. Business Model
Startup
Team
Market
Size
• How is it going to Scale?
• Would it Make enough Money?
• Is it verified? Any customers?
Business
Model

7. Startup
Team
Business
Model Experiencia
• How big is this opportunity?
• How did you measure/calculate it?
• Why are these people going to care?
Market size

8. Which slides
to show?

9. Your 1st slide
Introduce yourself
This is the place for
your awesome logo

10. Representative of your
target audience
Tell us the story
What is the problem?
2
Your
“pain”?
Your
friends?

11. Make sure it solves a real pain,
and it is not just good to have
How it solves the problem
Solution!
3
Your Startup NAME
What your company does in one sentence!

12. Show what you’ve built and
how it works step by step
How users will use it
Your Demo!
4
How does
it work?
Your user
experience

13. Show in graphs and quotes
what potential clients say
Tell us what you’ve learned
User feedback
5
Surveys Interviews

14. Never say “if only 1% of all
people use it, we will have…”
How many people need it
Market size
6
Who is your
target customer?
How big is your
target market?
How did you
come up with that?

15. Who is paying for what and
what is your margin
How will you make money
Your business model
7
10% $5/ticket
$50/ticket $55/ticket

16. Be creative and have vitality
implemented in your startup
How you will reach users
Marketing plan
8
How will you get your first 100 customers?
How can these customers attract 1000 fast?
How many customers will you get in the first year?

17. 9
Your competitors
Validated
Validated
Validated
How unique the startup is
9

18. Investors invest in people
first and ideas second
Who are behind the idea
Your rock star team
10

19. Make a strong statement!
Make everybody WOW!
1
Why us?
11
What makes you the winner?
Your biggest achievement?
Did you find customers pain?
Signed users on you MVP?

20. Thank you &
Wish you best of luck!
@dbrodovich
Daniil Brodovich