1. Business Venture Presentation
Team Name Team Members

2. Presentation Template
The following pitch deck is a sample. It contains typical components of a new venture pitch. This is merely meant as a sample for guidance. Please add, delete, alter and customize this for your own purposes.
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Tag Line and/or Logo

3. (Company Name) (Your Names)
(Titles) (Contact Info)
(Website)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

4. Overview
(Insert your wow factor here but limit it to 10 words only. Grab the reader!)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

5. Opportunity (What significant pain do you solve?)
(How large is this pain?)
(Why is this a great opportunity for you?)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

6. Unfair Advantages
(What unfair competitive advantages can you bring to the table?)
(Advantage 1)
(Advantage 2)
(Advantage 3)
(How do you maintain the unfair competitive advantages)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

7. Offering
(Provide a mock up of the product or service. For example, if it is an app, provide screen shots. If it is hardware, provide an illustrative representation. If it is a process or service, outline or diagram the process/service.)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

8. Marketing & Sales (How will you roll out?)
(How much have you done already?)
(Describe your skills/expertise)
(Who is your customer? Why will they buy?)
(Where do they live?)
(What do they do?)
(What’s their income? Age? Gender? Etc.)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

9. Competitive Landscape
(Provide some form of competitive landscape analysis)
My Offer
Competitor 1
Competitor 2
Competitor 3
Price
Low
High
Speed
Fast
Medium
Slow
Maintenance
None
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Tag Line and/or Logo

10. Revenue Model (Provide a revenue estimate)
(Show a model estimating the next 2 to 5 years)
(Discuss pricing, market size estimates and market penetration rates)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

11. Team (Member 1 Name) (Member 3 Name) (Member 1 Role) (Member 3 Role)
(Member 1 Key Facts)
(Member 2 Name)
(Member 2 Role)
(Member 2 Key Facts)
(Member 3 Name)
(Member 3 Role)
(Member 3 Key Facts)
(Member 4 Name)
(Member 4 Role)
(Member 4 Key Facts)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

12. Current Status (Key milestones achieved thus far)
(Timeline of anticipated milestones)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

13. Closing (Provide a product positioning statement)
To: (target customer) our (product) is the one (category) that (key benefit) unlike (nearest alternative).
Example: To: Music lovers our Apple iPod is the one music player that provides high quality seamless interoperability unlike android models.
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Tag Line and/or Logo

14. Thank You!
(Contact Info)
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Tag Line and/or Logo

15. Scoring Rubric Criteria Excellent (5) Poor (1) Overview Opportunity
Unfair Advantages
Offering
Marketing and Sales
Competitive Landscape
Revenue Model
Current Status
Communication

16. Scoring Rubric Criteria Excellent (5) Poor (1) Overview Opportunity
Compelling hook
Very unappealing
Opportunity
Can’t miss
Difficult to ascertain
Unfair Advantages
Might be real
Nothing special
Offering
Reasonable offering
Very disconnected from reality
Marketing and Sales
Good handle on these issues
Very unrealistic expectations
Competitive Landscape
Solid understanding and room to operate
Lack of understanding and/or no room to operate
Revenue Model
Reasonable and compelling
Unreasonable and not compelling
Current Status
Have made solid progress
Simply a notion
Communication
Very compelling video
Disorganized video. Difficult to watch