Pitch Perfect : Raising Capital for Your Startup

1. Storytelling and Why it’s so Important -- 2. How Venture Capital Works -- 3. How to Design you Pitch Deck -- 4. What Slides will you Need? -- 5. Slide: The Problem - and Why it is Worth Solving- 6. Slide: The Solution - and How you are Different from Other Solutions on the Market -- 7. Slide: The Product - What Does the Solution Actually Do? -- 8. Slide: Market- Where is the Market Today? Where is it Going? -- 9. Slide: Team - Why You are the Right People to Solve this Problem -- 10. Slide: Traction - How are you Measuring Your Success to Date? What Milestones Have you Hit? -- 11. Slide: The Moat - Why is it Hard for other Startups to do What You're Doing? -- 12. Slide: Business Model - How are you Going to Make Money? -- 13. Slide: Go-To-Market Strategy - What's the 'Beach-head Audience,' and How are you Going to Reach Them? -- 14. Slide: Competitors - Who Else is in the Market? How Else are your Customers Solving the Same Problem? -- 15. Slide: The Ask- How Much are you Raising, and What are you Going to Accomplish with that Money? -- 16. Slide: Timing - Why is Now is the Perfect Time to Start this Company? -- 17. The Take-Home Deck- Should You Have Multiple Versions of your Pitch Deck? -- 18. Who Should you be Talking To? Creating an Investor Lead List. -- 19. Getting Introductions- So, How do you Get in Front of the Right People? -- 20. The Investment Thesis- Your Potential Investors Have a Thesis They Use to Guide Their Investments. It's Helpful to Know What it is -- 21. Further Reading - Now that you Have a Pitch, What Else do you Need to Know?.