How To Pitch To Investors In Under 2 Minutes



Updated August 10, 2016. This video will show you how to pitch to investors in under 2 minutes without the aid of any slides. More coaching is available here: http://www.nathangold.com/ When you are given the opportunity to pitch your company and all you have is a microphone and a panel of investors waiting for you to pitch, you need to be well scripted and rehearsed for the performance. Without a script indelibly inscribed in your brain, you will usually run over on time, not cover everything you wanted to talk about, or worse, completely lose your way. This cannot and should not be an extemporaneous talk where you condense your 10 minute presentation into 2 minutes. The real purpose of the 2 minute pitch is to convince an investor to ask you questions that will ultimately lead to one of two outcomes. Either they will like you enough to continue talking with you or they can become a resource for you to leverage at some time in the future. Recently, at the VCTaskforce in Palo Alto, California, 10 companies were given 2 minutes to pitch to a panel of angel investors. These were who's who in Silicon Valley, such as Tom Cervantez co-founder of the Harvard Angels, Raffy Chatav from Silicom Ventures, John Ryan from Band of Angels, and Paul Twombly from Keiretsu Forum. You should see what these people give as feedback to people who obviously have not really prepared for the event. Speaking of preparing, that is exactly what this video is all about. You will learn how to have a great opening that will capture the attention of the listener. Following that, you'll be able to clearly articulate the value of your business by answering 6 questions on the minds of your investors. After watching this video, you will clearly understand and know how NOT to sound the S.A.M.E. as other presenters. And, you'll be able to effectively use the Columbo Close, a powerful attention-getting tool, as the last words the investor will hear from you. The information contained in this video is the result of the last 6 years of delivering workshops and coaching real people who are raising capital. It's the same information I give out in the first coaching session along with an important homework assignment. This is not a sales presentation to get you to hire me. This video contains only "solid nourishment" and no "empty calories" to waste your time or money. Here are a few who used this approach: -Glue Networks raised $4.5 million from Angels -Education.com raised $9.2 million Series B -Sim Ops Studios raised $3 million Series A -Abulla received 6 calls from VC's after a 7 minute presentation -Zazingo went into due diligence after their first meeting with a VC Nathan Gold, the presenter in the video, coaches for the following organizations: -Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation -Startup America Partnership -UP Global -IDG/DEMO Conferences -Citrix Startup Accelerator -DLA Piper Venture Pipeline Group -SVForum Investor Forum -Keiretsu Forum Entrepreneur Academy -PlugandPlayTechCenter -Rocketspace Jumpstart Program

Comments

  1. Fantastic. Really inspired me
  2. Great pitch!!!! :) thank you so much for this video. From France!
  3. cant say anymore.. thanks a lot to whoever did this video... its so powerful content and really helpful..thank you so much..
  4. thanks a million!
  5. Wow, such an excellently structured presentation! Thank you for putting this video together.
  6. You're awesome!
  7. awesome
  8. Thanks Nathan You've really Motivated I AM THAT LLC,      New Bottled water Company  we Speak, Drink, Think, Positive #IAMTHAT, Motivated
  9. Thank you!!!
  10. thank you so much Nathan, this is one of the rarest videos that I comment on...i feel happy i landed on your video today
  11. Thanks a lot, Nathan Gold for the valuable insights.
  12. I have a pitch today I am sorry I did not find this peace of information before, I like the advise in your video and I will use the information for my future pitch.
  13. That is exactly what I have been doing! glad to be on the same page, thanks :)
  14. Eye opener
  15. Very useful. Thnaks a lot
  16. Very informative, Nathan. Good examples given and not just talking about concepts and airy-fairy stuff.
  17. Great advices, @Nathan! I would however recommend you to improve the visual part of your presentation - it will boost your video views.
  18. I have been an entrepreneur for over 13 years from a small Indian town. After 13 years, I am pitching for the first time :)
    I always worked with my own money.
    Nathan you have no ideas what a change some of your videos have made to my life. I am preparing my pitch for a product that would change the way our kids gets our time forever.
    Whether I succeed of not is a irrelevant, because your words, points and coaching has literally changed my whole perspective. I have always used your methods without knowing they existed and their impact. After listening to you, it's just got moulded into a beautiful structure of information presentation.

    If I succeed, I am going to come back here thanking you for your contribution towards an impact for future. Even otherwise, I just want you to thank you for your efforts in making changes in entrepreneur's life.
    More power to you sir.
  19. Two words...Love This! Seven more words...I'm listening to it over and over! :)
  20. Thank you for making this video. I have been having such a hard time creating a pitch image for a funding campaign, it's for an invention that I'm trying to get put into production, so I can't talk or write about the product, cause of patent issues, so it's been tough coming up with a pitch image until I saw your video. Thank you
    Big Ed Bowman of "BEDA" Big Ed's Designs & Associates.


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