do's and dont's of vc pitches
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THE DOs and DON’Ts of VC PITCHES
Vinay Rao,Venture Partner,Venture Factory
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The Current Investment Climate
Investors are currently looking at startups with:
High Revenue
Low Burn Rate
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What is your Business Model?
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Do you have a Minimal Viable Product?
Show that you can generate revenue from day 1.
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Build an Omni-Channel Experience
Purely online or B2C businesses are not getting traction.
Focus on the Offline - Online connect. Design a seamless omni-channel experience for your
customers.
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Know your Customer
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Who are your Customers?
Research your target market. Understand you customer segment. Justify your Customer Acquisition Cost, given the LTV
(Life Time Value) of your customers? Do you know who is your competition. How will you
maintain a competitive advantage?
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Funding
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Funding
Know the amount you want to raise and can you justify it with metrics.
Have an outline of a year-on-year plan for your startup’s growth.
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How will you manage Risks?
Know what the assumptions are? Have insights to know how you will prove these
assumptions. Demonstrate how you will connect these assumptions
to facts. Have strategies to address these facts.
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Keep your presentation short, straightforward and specific.
Know your product inside out. Know your team's strengths and weaknesses. Research the investors and the kind of businesses they
have backed in the past.
Do:
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Don’t:
Don’t moonlight. Make sure all the co-founders are on board full time.
Don’t refrain from discussing the problematic aspects of your startup.
Don’t be vague. Be short, straightforward, specific. Don’t pitch without a MVP.
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