Resources for Pitching Your Venture

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General Business Pitching Resources

Elevator Pitch: One minute video pitches from startup entrepreneurs that are rated via a voting system.

The Art of The Fast Pitch: Your Business Plan in One Minute Flat

Miscellaneous Startup and Venture Capital specific Pitching Resources

How to pitch to a VC. A 15 minute video with great advice on pitching a new venture along with great general presentation advice

Sample video pitches from the Demo conference. View a whole range of winning pitches from the premier annual tech startup pitch event. Click on Demo08 to view the “DemoGods” winning pitches:

How to demo your startup. Some good advice from demo guru Jason Calacanis on TechCrunch:

How to do a Fundraising Pitch. A collection of resources and guidelines for making VC targeted pitches: 

Guy Kawasaki’s Blog: “My New Year’s Resolution: I will Fix My Pitch”. Focused on VC pitching, but some useful ideas and tactics

How NOT to write a Business Plan. Focused on VC pitches, but some useful ideas on just getting the important stuff out front.

Video of the Cambodia Project Pitch for the 2008 Global Social Venture Competition. Note: sound and video quality is poor, as is the presentation. Although professionally done, more of a lesson in what NOT to do in a pitch.

Social Enterprise Pitching Resources

Critiquing & Pitching for Growth Capital: Getting Into Your Business Plan, Social Enterprise Summit, March 2008. 

Summary of  presentation 

The Social Entrepreneur’s 5 Minute Pitch, Social Edge

Bonus Idea

Capture your pitch in a video and share it on a mobile device using a service like MyWaves, Juicecaster, Veeker or Eyespot to name just a few.

You can also film your pitch and upload it onto the Web via YouTube, Google Video or any number of online video services.