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    How To Prepare For A Pitch

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    This document provides tips for pitching an idea to turn it into a business. It discusses 4 steps: 1) Talk to people to get feedback on your ideas. 2) Write down your ideas and questions others may ask. 3) Be authentic when pitching to build trust. 4) Start pitching early to customers, employees and investors, and ask for feedback to improve.

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    How To Prepare For A Pitch

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    This document provides tips for pitching an idea to turn it into a business. It discusses 4 steps: 1) Talk to people to get feedback on your ideas. 2) Write down your ideas and questions others may ask. 3) Be authentic when pitching to build trust. 4) Start pitching early to customers, employees and investors, and ask for feedback to improve.

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    This document provides tips for pitching an idea to turn it into a business. It discusses 4 steps: 1) Talk to people to get feedback on your ideas. 2) Write down your ideas and questions others may ask. 3) Be authentic when pitching to build trust. 4) Start pitching early to customers, employees and investors, and ask for feedback to improve.

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    This document provides tips for pitching an idea to turn it into a business. It discusses 4 steps: 1) Talk to people to get feedback on your ideas. 2) Write down your ideas and questions others may ask. 3) Be authentic when pitching to build trust. 4) Start pitching early to customers, employees and investors, and ask for feedback to improve.

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    How to prepare

    STEP 4

    for a pitch

    STEP 3

    Start pitching

    STEP 2

    Be authentic

    STEP 1

    Write down

    your ideas

    Talk to people

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    Step 2: Write down your ideas

    What ideas?

    a. Summary of your ideas (2-3 lines)

    What excites you about these ideas?

    b. Write down a few questions others

    might ask you

    What’s the competition like?

    Why would you be more successful than

    anybody else?

    Would you make money for doing this?

    Why are you the first person to try and make


    Step 1: Talk to people
    this happen?

    Why did all the others who tried to do the same

    Who? Friends, instructors, famil fail?

    Why? They'll know better about the


    c. Answer them

    challenges and problems you might have


    Tip: Maybe you don’t have all the answers, but

    make an attempt and get started!

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    Step 3: Be authentic Step 4: Start pitching

    Why? People trust you enough to a. Start talking to your customers/

    make big decisions like investing employees/ investors, sooner than you

    money/giving up a job had planned

    Make sure your pitch provides as b. Ask these questions after each pitch:

    many real-world solutions as


    What do you think of my pitch?

    possible
    What did I do well?

    What could I have done better?

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    How do I reach out to people?

    Who do I pitch to?


    Guess their e-mail address

    and write cold e-mails

    How to reach out to people through

    e-mails
    How to guess e-mails?

    Golden rule: Let go of your inhibitions


    Try different combinations

    of: First name + Last


    and start reaching out to people.
    Name + Company Name

    eg. [email protected]

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    How to write a cold e-mail?

    Any other tips?

    Be careful when sending out e-mails

    Wrong method: send one single e-mail to

    everybody at the same time

    Correct Method: send a separate e-mail to

    each person to show respect

    Don’t be frightened by rejection

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    Will the pitch change?

    History vs. Future Plans

    Show your data

    to show your progress

    Your first pitch:

    Focus more on your future plans

    vs.

    Your latest pitch:

    Show more proof points, data Compared to your first pitch,

    points and execution history


    your latest pitch will showcase

    more performance indicators

    since you have more data.

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    Top hacks on pitch

    Use Internet resources Find people you should

    reach out to

    Search for pitches used by other

    companies

    How do I find the right people to reach out

    to?

    Read about industry-specific

    Make a profile on Angel.co


    opportunities and the people in those

    industries

    Build your own page Websites: Tech Ranch, Hacker, Reddit

    E-mail them and ask for connections

    Use the 'Guessing E-mail' method you just learnt!

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