Pitch Questions

How does one determine the "market size" for a business opportunity. Lets presume I'm selling mugs. How do I figure out what the market size for mugs is?

Pitch Research Market Analysis Market Research

asked Jun 4 '14 at 15:55

Dolores Jensen
6 points

It seems that either revenue or traction are the biggest factors in being able to easily get venture capital. Should one pursue trying to raise money without either of those factors? At the moment...

Funding Venture Capital Pitch Investors MVP

asked May 28 '14 at 21:41

Cheryl Febus
14 points

We have spent a lot of time creating variations of pitch decks for our business and closed a small angel round. Could we continue to use the decks for other purposes now that funding is over?What...

Marketing Pitch Deck Startups

asked May 13 '14 at 14:13

Leann Dement
11 points

What techniques to improve your public speaking skills are the fastest to implement? I will be pitching our business to a few VCs next week (first time doing so) and public speaking is my weakest...

Pitch Personal Skill Public Speaking

asked Apr 6 '14 at 12:59

Stuart Dotson
2 points

What are some phrases startup founders love using that you shouldn't while pitching to investors?

Pitch Founders Investors Startups

asked Mar 8 '14 at 03:27

Earl Shellman
55 points

How many slides should an ideal pitch deck have?What are your thoughts on having some subtle humor to keep the investor's attention span in check?

Pitch Investment

asked Mar 20 '14 at 20:14

Teresa Sanchez
135 points

I am creating a pitch deck to potentially raise a series A round and not sure where to start for projections. How do early stage startups calculate the market size and future projections when there...

Venture Capital Pitch Financial Series A

asked Mar 16 '14 at 02:21

Fernando Douglas
35 points

What data do angel investors want to see in a pitch deck? Better yet, are there any public successful pitch decks that people have used to raise over $500K from angels?

Pitch Investors Deck Angel Investors

asked Mar 10 '14 at 13:36

Robert Collins
160 points

I am a software developer turned startup founder who is good at executing things. One thing I dread though is speaking in front of an audience, no matter how big or small.This is holding me back...

Pitch Founders Startups Public Speaking

asked Mar 7 '14 at 12:39

Ramon Atwood
30 points

I don't have any contacts that could provide me an intro to a vc firm or angel investors. I have, however, found that many VCs' email addresses can be easily found on their websites or personal...

Venture Capital Pitch Email Investors

asked Mar 5 '14 at 12:38

Henry Nielsen
25 points

We're a team of 4 (two of us are founders) and the other two are early employees. When we go pitch VCs to try and raise a seed round, should the entire team go or just my co-founder and I? One...

Venture Capital Pitch

asked Feb 7 '14 at 14:22

Zohra Sahertian
26 points

Would one need any thing special to keep in mind? Are there any unspoken protocols that people follow? I have heard that most VCs won't entertain you unless you come through a referral. Is that...

Venture Capital Pitch

asked Feb 7 '14 at 19:17

Wilfredo
11 points

Almost every startup out there says things like "we do x for y". For example "We're Twitter for Education", etc. That seems to be too overused these days. Do VC's experience ad-blindness like...

Pitch Elevator Pitch

asked Feb 4 '14 at 09:40

Otha Dominguez
6 points

So I have a brand new startup company that provides valuable resources to a variety of consumers in the college application/admission process, what I want to know is, how can I approach a college...

Pitch Business

asked Sep 14 '13 at 07:24

Bwheeler96
113 points

Every time I do a pitch for any software idea I'm asked "What kind of protection do you have?" and it always stumps me. I've asked others and they don't have a good idea either. As a start up...

Getting Started Venture Capital Pitch

asked Aug 27 '13 at 21:48

Keith Loughnane
138 points

My startup uses virtualisation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor ) to allow anyone with a decent PC to make some money by renting out their computer over the internet. I'm a technologist at...

Marketing Pitch

asked Aug 5 '13 at 02:41

Steve
310 points

We are an early stage company with a working product. We would love to gain some seed funding to help us market the product. However, we seem to hear about pitch events either in the paper or past...

Pitch Angel Investors

asked May 21 '13 at 08:20

User25771
5 points

I have recently read the book "Hit the Deck" by David Ronick, which suggests not to write a classical business plan and instead start with the pitch deck. This is based on the argument that...

Pitch Business Plan

asked Feb 23 '13 at 18:44

Ben
136 points

We are an early stage web startup, and do not have anyone with deep financial experience on our team. Is not a likely option at this point. We are pitching to investors in a contest setting next...

Pitch Financial Investors

asked Feb 1 '13 at 08:38

Laramie
192 points

So a bunch of friends are always pitching ideas to each other. One day, one of my friends does one of these "this would be a great idea for a site". It's blown off as another of his 'ideas', but...

Getting Started Pitch Website Micro Startup

asked Jan 18 '13 at 09:29

Mark Mayo
106 points