How to Create an Epic Pitch Deck That’ll Get You Fundedcrowdsourcia
This document provides tips for creating an effective pitch deck to get funding. It recommends including essential slides on the problem, solution, market size, go-to-market strategy, competitors, team, use of funds, and exit strategy. Each slide should be concise and visually compelling. The goal is to grab attention, demonstrate a large market opportunity, prove the competitive advantage, and show investors how their money will be used and a potential exit. Feedback from experts can help strengthen the deck before presenting to investors.
The SaaS Founder’s Journey: What Matters at Each StageDavid Skok
The document discusses the three phases of a SaaS startup's lifecycle: searching for product-market fit, scaling the business, and searching for a repeatable and profitable growth model. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing what phase a startup is in and taking the appropriate actions, such as not jumping ahead or expanding sales too quickly before completing the current phase. Cash conservation is also stressed until reaching the scaling phase. Aligning sales, marketing, and other functions is highlighted as important for predictable growth. The phases and lessons provided serve as a guide for SaaS founders to strategically navigate their company's development.
How Startups Can Build a Recruiting MachineDavid Skok
Something important has changed in the recruiting process: the best people are almost never on the market, and you have to develop recruiting processes to find and sell passive candidates. In many cases, it will take months or years of relationship building with these candidates to find the right moment when they are open to considering a change. Closing them takes greater selling efforts than in the past due to the intense competition over the good candidates. This leads me to believe that there is now a third crucial startup skill that needs to be developed: recruiting.
Product Market Fit Presentation - May 2023 - Jeff BussgangJeffrey Bussgang
A systematic walk through of the journey to achieve product market fit by Jeff Bussgang, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School
Presentation from Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of Arafura Ventures, and author of "Inside Silicon Valley: How the deals get done," with a slide-by-slide approach to developing your pitch deck -- using examples from real-life winning pitch decks.
Check out sample essential pitch deck slides for: .
- Mission/Vision
- Problem/Solution
- Market size
- IP
- Financial projections
- Management team
- and more!
Sponsored by Early Growth Financial Services and Cooley.
This document provides an outline for an "ultimate pitch deck" to present to investors. It includes sections to introduce the team, provide an elevator pitch, demonstrate traction to date, define the market opportunity and problem, explain available and proposed solutions, describe the product/service, revenue model, marketing and growth strategies, financial projections, competition, and requested investment details. The creator offers tips for what to include in each section to impress investors and get them to say "WOW!!!" emphasizing telling a story about the team and problem being solved.
Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook , @danolsen
Room: C260
Everyone working on a new product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. Although product-market fit is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts, it’s also the least well defined. Dan Olsen shares the top advice from his book The Lean Product Playbook, including the Product-Market Fit Pyramid: an actionable model that breaks product-market fit down into 5 key elements. Dan also explains the Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology with practical guidance on how to achieve product-market fit, illustrated with a real-world case study.
My invited talk at SAP Startup Studio on Aug 11. The talk was part of the Inspire Us series at the startup studio and was well attended by SAP employees as well as the startups.
Venture Builder / Start-up Factory Model One-slider Infographic Floyd DCosta
Deploying a venture builder / start-up factory model to smartly develop and scale a set of innovative ventures.
A structured, experimental, iterative approach to craft value and generate returns
Dave McClure gave a talk about reinventing venture capital through 500 Startups' model of making many small investments. He discussed how technology has lowered the costs of starting companies and how platforms provide access to large customer bases. 500 Startups makes over 100 investments per year and aims to have a portfolio size of over 100 companies to increase chances of finding unicorns. Their strategy is to make many small "bets" and double down on the most promising companies. McClure also proposed training 500 new VCs through programs with Stanford to expand access to startup funding.
A presentation on The Art of Pitching by Kashyap Pandya - Founder & Director of Syncoro Ventures Pvt Ltd. The presentation covers the key points to be included in your pitch deck while presenting it to the prospective investors.
This document discusses different types of startups and businesses. It begins by distinguishing between small businesses, which serve known customers with known products to generate revenue under $1 million, and scalable startups, which aim to solve unknown customer problems and build large companies generating over $100 million annually.
It then describes the three types of markets that startups can enter: existing markets with known customers and products, new or emerging markets with unknown customer needs, and disruptive markets that require new technologies or business models. Depending on the market type, startups must approach customer development, sales, marketing, and business development differently.
The document emphasizes that startups are temporary organizations that search for a scalable and repeatable business
Laicos is a technology Startup Studio led by Ryan Negri and Kyle Matthews. With 20 years combined operational and startup experience, Negri and Matthews want to shape the up-and-coming startup ecosystem of Tampa, Florida, developing their own ideas to create a new tech hub of innovation and entrepreneurship.
A “Startup Studio” is a structure whose aim is to repeatedly build products into companies. Thanks to its infrastructure and resources, a startup studio increase a product’s chance of success and optimize its creation and growth.
The difference between incubators/accelerators and Startup Studios is the vested human capital involved around an idea. At the core of the startups studio model are dedicated teams helping business ideas develop into beautiful products and successful companies.
Laicos’ flagship inaugural product, Fuse, is a social media management platform for the consumers and power users, with a simple price model and a clean and attractive UI. In addition, Laicos is developing four additional products: BusFinder, currently in beta version, an app utilizing data from the Tampa Public Transportation System; $1Market, to offer many different services to users for $1 dollar/mo, Order to Seat, for fans to order food to their seat while at a stadium or arena, and FoodStops, a food truck tracking app for consumers and marketing platform for vendors. In 20I7, we plan to work with other founders to help turn their ideas into reality.
This is the handout from a presentation that I made at a startups workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. I was amazed at the lack of clarity that most of the participants had in their "pitches" and the lack of understanding of the need to tailor your pitch to the audience, as well as your own objectives.
Of course, the actual presentation was less wordy, and adhered to Guy Kawasaki's 30/20/10 rule as well as the 7 x7 mode of slide presentation
There are seven key stages in a startup’s evolution from $0m to $50m in revenue. Understanding where you are in that evolution, and how to act at each stage is critical for success, as what is appropriate at one stage is not appropriate at another stage. David will lay out the roadmap, and detail the keys to success at each stage. The talk is aimed at technical/product founders plus their sales, marketing & product executives who are responsible for the go-to-market strategy for their company.
Organisational Best Practices of Startup Studios Tobi Gutmann
Based upon two reserach papers, I share some high-level organisational best practices of startup studios (also called company builders, venture studios, startup foundry, etc.)
Zero to 100 - Part 5: SaaS Business Model & MetricsDavid Skok
Zero to 100 is a learning program from David Skok. It is a detailed instruction manual for how to take your startup from zero to $100m, with a particular focus on the area of building a go-to-market machine. So many of today’s founders come from a product or technical background, and have never been involved with sales and marketing. Right after starting their venture, they are hit with the huge problem of how to build their go-to-market organization and processes. It breaks the journey down into 9 steps, and explains why it is crucial not to skip steps in this journey in the rush to get ahead. The major emphasis of the course focuses on building a repeatable, scalable and profitable growth machine. Once you have that in place, you are ready to hit the gas and scale like crazy.
To see videos of the presentations, click here: https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/matrix-growth-academy-zero-to-100-videos/
The Product Market Fit Cycle (Updated to v. 2.0)Carlos Espinal
This presentation was used for my talk at HowToWeb 2014 in Bucharest Romania and is the updated presentation to my blog post on the subject - http://thedrawingboard.me/2013/05/03/the-product-market-fit-cycle/
Mastermind Masterclass: The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid ...saastr
The document discusses common growth potholes that companies encounter and how to avoid them. It identifies six main potholes: 1) low license utilization rates causing revenue contraction, 2) increasing price without a sustainable moat, 3) confusing a temporary moat with a sustainable one, 4) promoting the best salesperson to manager, 5) prioritizing revenue acquisition over customer value creation, and 6) massive hiring of salespeople after a financing round. For each pothole, it provides examples and recommendations for how to address the issues and maintain steady growth.
Mark Roberge is a Senior Lecturer with Harvard Business School, former CRO of Hubspot and author of bestseller "The Sales Acceleration Formula". Join him as he takes you through his step by step guide to revenue growth.
This document discusses lean product management approaches for independent software vendors (ISVs) building apps on the Salesforce AppExchange. It recommends validating customer needs through discovery interviews and minimum viable product (MVP) testing before building full apps. Metrics should focus on user actions like trials and purchases rather than vanity metrics. The document outlines a four step process from customer discovery to scaling: discovery, validation, creation, and execution/scaling. It provides resources for ISVs to design, build, market and sell apps on AppExchange.
Après-midi - Track 3 - S2 - Funding & Pitching How to do it Right
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In this prescriptive breakout session learn what successful Solution Providers are doing to build their Cloud/Mobility business. This workshop is designed for Solution Provider new to cloud/mobility marketplace or have not yet seen success. Success in the new marketplace starts with a Practice Statement, entails new ideas on building marketing savvy and better sales execution. We will cover a variety of tools, tips and techniques partners are using to drive Cloud /Mobility success.
Topics:
• Why you need to create a Practice Statement
• Aligning your marketing message to fit your Cloud strategy
• Building your Cloud marketing program that is unique and is active
• Creating a sales mentality and compensation program that works
• Developing a Business Guidance sales mentality
http://www.ingrammicrocloud.com
[Webinar] AWS Activate Webinar Series for Startups, Funding, Pitching and Ven...Amazon Web Services
Startups are always looking for ways to grow and often, capital is one of the most important aspects which is needed to fuel that growth. This webinar provides an overview of Venture Capital and how it has evolved with emergence of Open Source and Cloud.
The webinar also focuses on funding, how to pitch throughout the funding process and provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions like "What does a good pitch look like" or "What are some of the best practices in pitching". The session will also cover tips from top VC's and startups that raised funds successfully.
This presentation examines how you can manage & grow sales with a sales pipeline set up with the proper sales pipeline stages and how to master sales pipeline management.
Resources & Links:
iDeal Sales CRM: https://idealcrm.app/
Sales Pipeline Full Article: https://idealcrm.app/construction-sales/sales-pipeline-stages-explained-b2b/
Sales Pipeline Excel Download: https://idealcrm.app/wp-content/uploads/Sales-Pipeline-Excel.xlsx
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One of the best ways to keep track of sales is with a sales pipeline - an important tool that helps you manage and grow sales.
What We Cover:
- Sales Pipeline Definition
- Sales Pipeline vs Sales Funnel
- Sales Pipeline Management Best Practices
- Sales Pipeline Stages
- Sales Pipeline Stages Example
- Sales Pipeline Software
- Sales Pipeline Excel Template - free download
Discover and understand the critical actions needed on the venture journey to scale successfully.
What is it for?
To help corporate entrepreneurs identify and successfully navigate each critical action that will ultimately become the foundation of a corporate venture’s scaling effort. Based on the insights from 200+ corporate innovation and venture tracks, this practical guide provides a deeper understanding of what’s needed early-on for long-term venture growth.
Benefits:
Identify the right measurement approach that shines a light on your path forward.
Create an ideal team setup with access to the right talent at the right time.
Select the appropriate ownership structure and legal entity format.
Building the Billion Dollar SaaS Unicorn: CEO GuideKelly Schwedland
In a Venture Capital world that is obsessed with growth, recurring revenue and software as a service, after you validate that you have a solution that people are willing to pay for, there is an entire new world ahead of you in scaling that venture. For many, this involves an entirely new language and set of metrics to manage the business. For the startup that wants to make the leap to scale up and fast growth this should serve as a starting point for key insights and metrics for that journey.
Bootstrap, Angel or Venture: Determining the Right Financing Strategy for You...Judy Loehr
This presentation was shared at Dreamforce 2016 to help early-stage cloud business application startup teams understand how investors will evaluate their markets so they can plan the right financing strategy from the beginning.
Successful Customer Communications Strategies in 8 Steps and 2 Case StudiesVivastream
This document outlines an 8-step process for developing a successful customer communications strategy along with two case studies. The 8 steps include: knowing objectives and metrics, conducting a communications audit, listening to customers, determining customer segmentation, plotting the customer lifecycle, defining messaging, setting an implementation roadmap, and refinement. The case studies describe how DIRECTV built a new customer onboarding strategy and how CLEAR developed a communications program. An effective strategy focuses on retention, uses data to personalize interactions, and allows testing and adaptation to maximize results.
Startup camp chalmers innovation 19 september 2014sahlinas
This document discusses business models and customer development for startups versus established companies. It begins by defining companies as organizations that sell products or services for profit, organized around business models. Startups are defined as temporary organizations designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The document then discusses how companies execute business plans while startups search for their business model through customer development. It advocates that startups focus on searching for the right business model rather than executing a predetermined plan.
Tudor Mafteianu (Blu Capital Partners) - What Drives the Value of Your Business?Techsylvania
The document discusses how to maximize the value of a business. It explains that value is driven both intrinsically, such as by the quality of products, growth, and management, and extrinsically, such as investor sentiment and availability of capital. The document provides tips on understanding value drivers, improving business metrics, and structuring deals appropriately in order to secure and unlock maximum value. Potential exit routes discussed include strategic sales, IPOs, and raising equity or debt.
Full loop analytics framework (English version)Sol Mesz
We know that a product is viable when User, Product and Business aspects are equally represented.
But when we look at existing metrics frameworks we see that most focus on isolated parts of the triad.
The Full Loop Analytics framework, is a new metrics framework that provides a holistic view of the performance of a product by looking at its 3 key dimensions: user, product and business.
This way of looking at metrics takes organizations out of a fragmented vision and moves them into a holistic one. In other words, this framework takes organizations from output to outcome focused product metrics.
Here are some examples of acceptance criteria for a user story:
Functional:
- As a user, I can search for products by name or category
- Search results display product images, names, prices and are sortable by name, price, etc.
Non-Functional:
- The search feature loads results within 2 seconds for up to 1000 products
- Search is accessible and usable on mobile devices
Performance:
- 95% of searches return results within 1 second
- Search handles at least 100 requests per second during peak traffic
Usability:
- Search suggestions appear as I type my query
- Clear prompts and error messages display for invalid searches
Security:
- Personal user data
Siebel Analytics in IBM: Building a Sense & Respond Solutionpoore120
This document summarizes IBM's evaluation of Siebel Analytics to build a "sense and respond" business intelligence solution. It describes IBM's CRM environment, the challenges with existing reporting, and a three-phase evaluation process involving prototyping, technical assessments, and a production pilot. The production pilot deployed Siebel Analytics to sales teams in EMEA and is monitoring feedback. Initial feedback is positive, though challenges include remote development teams, data privacy issues, and performance tuning. The document concludes that prototyping is valuable and Siebel is a great partner, and more can be done with analytics.
This document is a presentation on writing business cases. It was presented by Venkadesh Narayanan from Fhyzics to the IIBA Chennai Chapter. The presentation provides an overview of key components of a business case, including defining the problem, analyzing costs and benefits, identifying risks, and presenting the analysis in a business case report structure. It emphasizes that a business case should demonstrate value to stakeholders and use metrics like net present value, return on investment, and benefit-cost ratio to evaluate investment options.
Customer development : Bob Dorf's slides for his conference in Paris. October...Diateino
This document summarizes Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology for starting a startup. It emphasizes the importance of getting out of the building to test assumptions with potential customers through minimum viable products and pivoting based on customer feedback. Key steps include searching for a problem worth solving, conducting customer discovery interviews without selling, using feedback to validate or pivot the idea, and iterating quickly through this process to find product-market fit and a repeatable business model before spending time on execution. The goal is to minimize cash usage and failure rate by continuously learning what customers want through direct engagement from the founders.
CAPACITY BUILDING:HOW TO GROW YOUR INFLUENCE, INCOME & IMPACTTochi22
Don't wish for less problems but for more capacity.
In this slideshare, you will discover the importance of capacity and different critical areas you must build to achieve your dream life.
To get the recording of this seminar, join our community on Clubhouse @ High Impact Makers
Understanding Bias: Its Impact on the Workplace and Individualssanjay singh
In the presentation, I delve into what bias is, the different types of biases that commonly occur, and the profound negative impacts they have on both workplace dynamics and individual well-being. Understanding these aspects is the first step towards creating a more equitable and supportive work culture.
Embracing Change_ Volunteerism in the New Normal by Frederik Durda.pdfFrederik Durda
The new normal has not diminished the spirit of volunteerism; rather, it has transformed it, opening up new avenues for individuals to connect with and support their communities. As we continue to adapt, volunteerism will remain a vital force in building resilient, compassionate, and inclusive societies.
Certified Administrative Officer CAO.pdfGAFM ACADEMY
The Certified Administrative Officer (CAO) is a gold-standard certification awarded exclusively by the Global Academy of Finance and Management ®. Earning this designation demonstrates that you have skills and experience in office administration which includes events coordination, time management, resource management, Microsoft Office applications, and business communication.
REQUIREMENTS
The Certified Administrative Officer designation requires a diploma or a bachelor's degree in business and administration, or related field.
Two years experience in office administration
Final year graduates with industrial attachment will be considered.
In addition to educational requirements, candidates must have knowledge in Microsoft Office applications, and business communication skills.
To apply: https://gafm.com.my/digital-certification/application-for-certification/
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