Yesterday (Thursday 21 Aug, 2014) in a TIE program, I got opportunity to listen Mr Ravi Narayan, Director – Microsoft Ventures where Mr Narayan explained, “How to Craft a Winning Pitch”. It was really an awesome talk and quite helpful for the start-ups, that’s the reason I thought, I should share the main ingredient of his talk; hope it should be beneficial to start-ups.
Mainly he explained, when we are pitching in front of an investor or someone we are trying to join us, in 3-4 minutes of time we should try to, 1) Gain the Trust. 2) Show the credibility. 3) Create the excitement. 4) Create the curiosity to know more, and then 5) Ask for next step.
Below is the block representation of his points. Blue blocks represent the objectives i.e. our points and Green blocks next to each objective tells us, we can achieve particular objective by discussing about factors.
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