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How to Pitch Your Idea

Posted by admin November - 10 - 2009 - Tuesday

Not sure how to make a killer presentation? Don’t worry, we’ve got more links to great presentation advice than you can twitter a linkedIn at.*

How to Pitch to a VC or Angel – ReadWriteWeb’s excellent advice on building a powerful, focused presentation

Positioning and pitch decks for startups – Ed Sim’s advice on how to position your startup through your presentation. That’s fancy marketing talk for explaining how you’re different from your competition.

Guy Kawasaki’s Video Advice on Presentations – the man’s a legend for a reason, listen and watch.

The Art Of The Pitch: Ron Popeil And Steve Jobs – believe it or not, the same magic that convinces you to buy a combination food processor and fax machine is also at work making you run to the Apple Store everytime Steve Jobs speaks. Make some of that magic work for you.

Perfecting the Fund-Raising Pitch – it’s BusinessWeek, which is completely unhip and 1.0, but they still have some good advice on sticking to the essentials.

What if you don’t want to read all that? Then you’re missing out. But we’ll summarize for you:

  1. Keep it simple
  2. Be confident and passionate
  3. Explain exactly why your idea is completely awesome (not 60% awesome, completely awesome)

That’s it! Now go out there and submit your presentations!

*we also have terrible writers. We’d fire them if we were paying them anything.

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The Start-Up CUE team is led by Josh Jeffryes, organizer of the St. Louis Design Meetup, and includes Dave Blankenship and David Phillips, IT Talent from the Bounce Back Network. The Start-Up Connection is being organized by Innovate St. Louis, ITenterprises of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, IT Entrepreneur Network, Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, BioGenerator, the St. Louis RCGA, and Bounce Back St. Louis.