Pitching is perhaps the single essential ability that any founder needs to refine, so not remarkably, we started our TechCrunch Early Stage 2021– Marketing & & Fundraising event with a deep dive on all the ideas and techniques required to get the most out of pitching and slide decks. On hand was Adina Tecklu, a principal at Khosla Ventures, and who formerly built out Canaan Beta, the consumer seed practice at Canaan Partners.
We talked about the significance of knowing your consumer (aka your potential financier), focusing on story, typical slides in a deck, the appendix slides, formatting, and after that alternative formats and which to avoid in a pitch deck.
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Know your client, in this case, your investor
We started our conversation with recommendations that stays as valuable as it is apparent. Even today, despite the wealth of resources offered on the internet to background research study possible financiers, founders regularly stroll into their pitch conferences like deer in headlights with no sense of that particular financier’s interests, tastes, stage of financial investment and more. Don’t be that founder.
Secret number one is understand your audience. The very best creators comprehend their users, whether that is an end consumer, or a business customer. They have actually done the research study to comprehend what encourages their consumers, how they make purchasing choices, and also what their consumers like and don’t like as much about their own product. When fundraising, your VC essentially becomes your consumer. And so before you begin pitching, or perhaps developing your deck, it’s really essential to do your research beforehand to understand the firms and the partners that you plan to pitch. (Timestamp: 2:25)
If you do that right,
That understanding permits you to proactively address any issues that they might have. And really make sure that you position your business in such a way that is both authentic, however in a way that will be well received by the VC. (Timestamp: 3:20)
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Story-driven, not data-driven
Information is the most important source of knowledge in Silicon Valley, or so the belief holds. But the truth, especially in early-stage investing, is that the information can only paint a partial photo of a startup and a founder’s aspiration. Do not let a dense copse of trees occlude the larger forest, which is what financiers are actually investing in.
Article curated by RJ Shara from Source. RJ Shara is a Bay Area Radio Host (Radio Jockey) who talks about the startup ecosystem – entrepreneurs, investments, policies and more on her show The Silicon Dreams. The show streams on Radio Zindagi 1170AM on Mondays from 3.30 PM to 4 PM.
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