1. General Guidelines Guidelines: –Prepare a 15 to 20 minute pitch and be ready for 30 minute Q&A –Use approximately 10 slides Other recommendations: –Have fun. Let your passion for what you do and your personality come through –Use your companies normal PowerPoint template –If you don’t have a PowerPoint consider A san serif light font on a dark background Add your logo to the master slide –Don’t put too much on a slide (like this one you are currently reading ;) –Animate your body, not your slides –Use bullets, diagrams and graphs as appropriate –Don’t read the slides; let them back up what you are saying –Have someone review your presentation for spelling and other errors

2. Organization Name Organization POC Contact Information Note: We recommend sharing a few key points about who you are to start with. Let the investors connect with who you are as a person. Let your passion come through, but keep it brief, not more than a couple of sentences.

3. Overview Give your 30 second “elevator pitch” and make sure it is “sticky” (i.e. memorable). –This may be your vision or mission and you may want to include the problem you are addressing. –Remember: Keep it simple. "Investors respond to pragmatic, specific information,” says Wil Schroter [in a Forbes article]. "If you can articulate in two sentences the problem and the solution, you've nailed it.”

4. Company Overview Ownership Employees Last year’s revenue

5. Management Team Describe the key players of your management team, board of directors, etc. Don’t be afraid to show holes in your team because all startups have holes. The point is to acknowledge them.

6. Current Products & Services Explain what you sell Explain how you make money Explain value proposition

7. Market Describe your current market Describe how you are reaching your market Make sure your company’s uniqueness comes through

8. Competition Describe your competition Describe your competitive advantage

9. New Product/Expansion/Service Describe your expansion Investment size

10. Use of Investment How will you use the investment Answer the investor’s question: What is in it for me?”

11. Pro-forma Financials What are your projected financials: – Revenue –Growth projections –Ebitda

12. Q&A Have a slide to open Q&A Include your contact info again