As a VC, we suffer death by PPT (on a cue from Alexei Kapterev) almost every day. Every month, we see 100s of PPTs and attend many events where again one is drowned by pitches and more pitches… all vying for a time which is equally captured by e-mails / social chatter and other noises.
However, the majority of those (almost 99%) become dead on arrival or rather lose the plot in next 60 seconds. A lot of them are great business ideas or have better teams but all is lost in enthusiasm/eagerness to impress or in storytelling. Given the constant bombardment of pitches, a lot of startups don’t get a second chance to pitch again and lose a great momentum as a result.
This presentation is just an attempt to guide entrepreneurs to weed out unnecessary details and focus on the core belief of the startup. You might be having the next best idea, but if you are not able to put things forward succinctly, chances are that you might miss the bus, and we as investors might end up doing Type I / Type II error, as the case may be.
Remember – your first pitch is not about getting a cheque but is all about getting a second meeting, so work on the pitch to get attention / second meeting rather than drowning in details and losing the plot. Hope this pitch gets your attention or at least tries to achieve what I am preaching (or maybe I also lost the plot!!! ;))