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How To Prepare For A Pitch With A Sparring Partner
This article is a result of a question from the Global Business Women forum about advise and tips for preparing a new venture presentation to a bank, but should be usable for any kind of prepping for presentation.
With any kind of business venture, there will be presentations about your company and your product. The following probably sounds like a lot of work and time consuming, but in most cases you will find yourself doing these steps automatically after an initial learning.
Looking specifically at a presentation to a bank or a VC, I would advise the following extra ’rounds’:
Ten rules for a lot of startups
Evan Williams has posted a nice set of rules for web startups – but in fact, they are not for startups alone.
Let me take rule number one of his – be narrow – and give a little input on that. What many people found out in the last months as it seems is that you have to have your niche – and it can be very small. Of course, everybody is right when we talk about “find a niche, be king in it” but I always find it funny, that one step is missing: to find the niche you can work in …
