Pitching Angels 16: Finding Pre-Seed Investors
Who will fund your pre-seed round? It’s not angels and VCs but people in your network and industry insiders who understand what you’re building.
Pitching Angels 15: What’s My Valuation?
What’s the valuation of your startup? It all comes down to how attractive the investment is compared to all the other startups.
Pitching Angels 14: Wrap Up the Pitch With Deal Terms
Wrap up your pitch with your ask – buy our stock now, and tell us the terms of the deal!
Pitching Angels 13: Exit Strategy – The Climax of the Pitch
The pitch needs to answer the question: is this a good investment? And that boils down to the exit, when the investor makes a return.
Pitching Angels 12: The Fictional 5 Year Revenue Projection (And Why It’s the Most Important Slide in Your Deck)
5-year revenue projections are complete fiction, and yet, absolutely necessary to your pitch. Here’s why.
Pitching Angels 11: Showing Traction
The best way to get investors excited in your business is by showing traction
Pitching Angels 10: Three Ways to Get Funded Without an All-Star Team
Here’s how to get funded if your startup team doesn’t makes the VC’s drool.
Pitching Angels 9: Betting on the Jockey, Not the Horse
The three most important factors in startup success are the team, the team, and the team. But what exactly are we looking for in a team?
Pitching Angels 8: Competition – Keep it Honest
What we want to hear is not that you have no competition, but how you’ll prevail over all of them.
Pitching Angels 7: Fill Your Moat with Alligators
To keep out competition, you need a moat. Learn how to build a moat that’s wide and deep, and stocked with alligators to build an enduring advantage.
Pitching Angels 6: How Will You Reach All Those Customers?
Wrap up the introductory third of your pitch by connecting the dots between your wonderful product and the millions of people who need it.
Lesson 5: Market Sizing — Ditch the TAM / SAM / SOM
In theory, market sizing is simple, but it rarely actually is. This article reviews the TAM/SAM/SOM model for market sizing, but recommends alternatives that are often better suited for the real world.
Lesson 4: Hook Investors with a Simple Product & Solution Explanation
A pitch starts with the problem and your solution. You probably think this is the easy part of the pitch,. but it’s actually the most difficult section to get right
Lesson 3: The Pitch Deck – an Overview
A pitch deck follows a familiar pattern. This article gives an overview of what makes a compelling pitch and summarizes the slides that should be included.
Lesson 2: It’s the Exit, Stupid!
What does an investor want — an exit. That’s the only way we make money. Consider whether you really want to build a business for acquisition and make sure the entire pitch tells the story of how you get to a successful exit.
Lesson 1: What are Investors Looking For?
To pitch effectively to potential investors, you have to see the world from our eyes. What do we want, and why should we invest in you and your business? In most cases, the simple answer is money – we invest money to make money, but that’s not the entire story.
Introducing Pitching Angels
Hi. My name is DC Palter. Part time angel investor, part time startup mentor, full time startup entrepreneur. Oh, and published author and wannabee novelist, too. I never set out to become an angel investor or even an entrepreneur but my life has taken many unexpected twists and turns and that’s where I find myself […]
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