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Pitch. Connect. Scale.

Template Slide Deck

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TAGLINE: Define your venture with a short declarative sentence, getting to the heart of your venture’s unique advantage.

VENTURE NAME

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Describe the pain of the customer

Outline how the customer addresses the issue today and why current solutions don’t work.

Is it costing the customer time, money, frustration… Define the pain point. ($ amount, time lost, etc.)

PROBLEM

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Provide cases, customer insights, case studies (if available)

SOLUTION

Demonstrate your venture’s value proposition to make the customer’s life better

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MARKET SIZE/DYNAMIC

Identify/profile the customer you cater to

Provide bottom-up market sizing: the number of potential customers and the price of the product sold into those customers.

Changing trends, new technologies, and forces driving this segment

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COMPETITION

Give a list of direct competitors, substitutes, or those about to emerge 

    • Why hasn’t anyone done this before?
    • What are the barriers to entry that keep someone from doing this and/or what would keep a competitor from imitating your product or entering your market? 

Highlight your venture’s competitive advantages

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GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGY

What is your plan for execution?

    • Summarize sales, marketing, and partnership plans

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PRODUCT

Product line-up

Intellectual property

form factor

functionality

features

architecture

Development roadmap

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BUSINESS MODEL

Revenue model

Pricing

Average account size and/or lifetime value

Sales & distribution model

Customer/pipeline list

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KEY MILESTONES

    • Outline current milestones achieved and future milestones. 
    • Customer research 
    • MVP development 
    • Product launch 
    • Beta users 
    • Market testing 
    • Marketing role out/CAC

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TEAM

Founders & Management 

What key skills or experience that relate to the product or leading of the company 

Board of Directors/Board of Advisors 

Highlight spheres of influence

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