Reverse pitch: Interactive pitch advice to tell your product, tech, and ai story

Summary

Join this one-of-a-kind session that puts you in the investor seat! 

Format of the workshop: 

• Take prompts from the audience and pitch them a generic deck that covers 90%+ of the decks that investors see every year;

• Collaborate with the audience to flesh out the story and the pitch to stand out!

5+ investors (across all industries) agree that this is the generic pitch deck they see time and time again. 

Join this “show – and not – tell” session to avoid the pitfalls other early-stage founders make, practice telling the (AI) story at just the right detail level, and prepare for fundraising. Walk away with tangible advice to improve your pitch deck!

About the Speaker

Irina has reviewed 100s of pitch decks and pitches for VC firms, accelerators, and founders, covering products in HealthTech, MedTech, Space, DeepTech, SaaS, B2B, and B2C. Great pitches -- and not-so-great pitches stand out. To make sure the start-up is remembered for the right things, she's written several blog posts on the topic, including https://www.ikukuyeva.com/blog/founders/due-diligence, and has shared the top 3 pitch deck mistakes in a talk for the InnovatorMD World Conference.

Speaker

• (v.0.1.1) Pitch Prep Workshop for First Look SoCal Presenters. Virtual. May 2, 2024. (slides)

• (v. 0.0.1) Pasadena Coffee Meetup. April 5, 2024. (slides, recording)

To Learn More from Me

• Accelerator mentor

• Founder FAQs on blog

• AMAs: announce on LinkedIn

• ($) Pitch deck office hours (4 attendees + 4 teardowns)

• ($$) Pick my brain (1-1)

• ($$$) Pitch deck + AI story (1-1)

• ($$$) AI diligence (1-1)

Further Reading

• AI and Product-Market Fit:

  1. • Talk: AI Product Integration: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly + How to Navigate It

     • Talk: Power of Data for Product Market Fit (or) Your Product Market Fit Roadmap to Escalate Your Growth (including slides and recording) 

     • Dear Advisor: How do I do Product-Led Growth (PLG) as my Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy for Product-Market Fit (PMF)?

• Pitch decks:

  1. • Talk: Reverse Pitch: Interactive Pitch Advice to Tell Your Product, Tech, and AI. Story. 

     • Dear Advisor: How do I Prepare for AI Technical Due Diligence? 

     • Advice from Due Diligence of 50+ Pitch Decks:  Advice for Aligning Product, Technology, and AI in your Pitch Deck Story

     • Dear Advisor: What metrics should I include in my pitch deck? 

• A Scientific Approach to VC, by Omri Drory, Ph.D. for NfX, which includes a formula to help you evaluate if you're lucrative to an early-stage VC; that is, is:

  1. • "A x B x C >= $100M in revenues, OR >$1B in market cap at 10x earnings, where:

       1. • A = what you are selling

          • B = how much it costs

          • C = gross margins"