Seedcamp have come up with a neat idea to get us taking part in the whole process, submit your two minute pitch via Seesmic to the Seedcamp blog by Wednesday, August 6th.
I have done my fair share of pitching, and I have a few tips for anyone considering using this medium to get your ideas across. Remember that anyone could be watching this so make sure you don’t go too heavily into tech or financial, for example, as you are likely to lose the viewer.
Try to break your pitch into these 3 (possibly 4) parts.
- What is your proposition / innovation? Explain the benefits that it will bring to its customers
- Who is behind the idea? Do you have a team in place? Do they have previous experience in this area?
- How big is the market? That can mean size in $ spent, competitors, number of customers for your Total Applicable Market
- How much investment are you looking for? Unless you can use this in a way to show that you know what you are doing and how you will spend it Vs how you see the return, I would leave it out for the initial Seedcamp pitch.
And finally, I have always wanted to post this, how not to pitch:
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Rog the dodge // August 1, 2008 at 11:47 am |
looks like an interesting idea, although I think I have seen that done before. I think it’s a good idea that we can then choose which presentation goes to the next round – that way we have ourselves to blame if it’s not a success!