FREE Startup Toolkit, Vol. 1 (Startup Week 2010 edition) -- Financial Model + VC Pitch Deck
If you've been following this blog, you know that I've spent days researching and tweaking YouPhonics' financial model and pitch deck. You also probably know that I've been traveling and meeting hundreds (if not thousands) of entrepreneurs young and old, all of them trying to make a positive difference in others' lives.
- A more accurate population growth model (the Verhulst equation, for those interested folk) that takes into account saturation rates
- A consolidated variables sheet. This allows you to alter your variables in one place and immediately see the impact it has on your bottom line. It's also great to bust out in presentations...
Well, in my slowly-ramping-up fundraising efforts, I spent a lot of time analyzing those decks, along with a confidential one from a friend's company who are raising their Series A after a successful Angel round.
I also had a 90-minute conversation about the mechanics of a great pitch with a New York based VC (previous investments include Aviary and Photobucket). We walked through everything I had prepared, tore it apart, and built it back up again.
All this prep turned out really well: my first pitch was to one of the ten biggest VC firms in the world. And they had no idea that I had made the leap straight from college ball to the championship game.
I've condensed all of my learnings into a super-practical template deck for you. 15 sample slides, each of them with detailed notes that guide the presentation's flow.
If you follow the instructions inside, your presentation will cover pretty much any question a VC will have... without giving so much information as to bore 'em.
Again, to download the Pitch Deck Template, click here (ZIP of PPT, PDF, and Keynote).
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Please, let me know what you think below. Or, if you want to keep it private, just shoot me an email at aidan (AT) youphonics.
Happy Startup Week 2010!
(Edit: Extra thanks are in order, to the people who helped me prep these documents for release: Mom, Dad, Hayes, Andrey, Andrew, Jon, Wendy, and Carolyn... thank you all very much! These wouldn't be here without you.)
