Top 10 Mistakes Made When Pitching Investors...And How To Avoid Them

In this unique and face paced workshop, attendees will learn to take their presentation and demo skills to a new and exciting level. This workshop is targeted at people who need to learn better ways to deliver presentations and demos in high stakes, can't miss, do or die situations, such as at investor meetings.

Using speed learning, each person will discover how to present their product or service the way people want it presented: short, to the point, and covering only those benefits that will truly solve the customer's business needs and issues. What you learn in this workshop can be used immediately!

Each attendee will learn:

• 3 secrets to maximizing the effectiveness of PowerPoint and Keynote slides
• 3 secrets to giving compelling, exciting, and memorable product demos
• 3 secrets about meetings with venture capitalists and angel investors
• The secret "right" number of slides to use in an investor meeting
• How to immediately win over your audience of 1 or 1,000
• What you can do to keep people on the edge of their seats
• How to avoid the click-fest product demo
• How to use your voice and body when presenting
• How to make your presentations and demos personal
• How to leave a lasting positive impression

You will leave with a better elevator pitch, a much better presentation slide deck, and key knowledge about how to maximize your time in front of an investor whether angel or venture capital. Note that the afternoon session will contain the same content as the morning session.

At The Demo Coach, we coach people in how to design, script, and deliver more compelling and memorable presentations and product demos especially for high stakes opportunities and venues where you cannot afford to miss. Using our thoroughly tested, repeatable, and flexible approach, you will automatically increase your chances of achieving more success with your presentations and product demos.

Nathan Gold will lead this workshop. He is the Chief Demo Coach at The Demo Coach and has personally given over 15,000 presentations and product demos throughout his career. He has  been coaching people for presentations and demos on stage, live, on-line, and venture capital meetings since April 2000.

Gold is also the co-author of Giving Memorable Product Demos and a 2-time winner of the distinguished DEMOgod Award, given to him at DEMOmobile 2000 and DEMOfall 2005 by IDG Executive Forums for being "A one man walking communications store with the ability to deliver an incredibly well-timed demonstration."

Recent stats about The Demo Coach:

• 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 at the SDForum
• Zazingo went into due diligence after their first meeting with a venture capitalist
• 57% of the people coached for on stage presentations at DEMO win awards
• 4 out of 5 on stage DEMOgod Award winners at DEMOfall 09
• Both $1M Media Prize People's Choice Award winners at DEMOfall 09
• $1M Media Prize People's Choice Award winner at DEMOspring 2010
  
• DLA Piper Venture Pipeline Group presentation and demo coach
• SDForum Investor Forum presentation coach
• Keiretsu Forum Entrepreneur Academy instructor
• Whiteboard Accelerator presentation and demo coach
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation coach
  

To learn more about The Demo Coach, please visit www.democoach.com. There are many award winning video demos from previous clients that might help you before and after this workshop.

Financing Strategies - How To Raise Money

This 90-minute intensive Financial Strategies workshop is led by serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Jonathan Baer. He calls Silicon Valley his home, but travels internationally while mentoring companies in the area of raising money.

This workshop will cover these key points:

• Implications of taking money
• What you get, what give up, and what to watch for when taking money
• Fundraising tool, how to develop and use the executive summary, presentation, and business plan
• Viability, advantages and disadvantages of different funding sources
• The funding decision, choosing among alternatives
• Funding, the fine points: structure, valuation, and exit strategies
• What investors look for and how to get their attention

Jon is a senior executive who brings a unique perspective to the world of start-ups. In addition to being a venture capitalist, he was the founder and CEO of two venture backed companies, eBoomerang, an enterprise software company which was sold in 2006 and Artificial Muscle, Inc., a spinout from Stanford Research Institute (SRI) which was sold to Bayer AG in 2010.

As a principal and founder of Threshold Ventures, Jon works with companies around the world, serving as an advisor/mentor, working on specific projects (such as creating venture backed companies from emerging new technologies and helping international companies develop and execute plans for entering the U.S. market) and when appropriate, taking on interim operating roles. He has worked with a wide range of software, telephony, hardware and services businesses. Earlier in his career Jon was a General Partner at Oscco Ventures, a Sand Hill Road early-stage venture capital firm which was one of the pioneering firms in Silicon Valley. He has invested in a range of companies including Landec, Peerless Systems, and Coinstar.

Seating is limited in each workshop.

It is important that you register for each workshop you plan to attend due to a limited number of chairs in the room. We look forward to working with you in these workshops. Our sincere promise is to make sure your time with us is worth every minute by offering you only "solid nourishment" and no "empty calories." In other words, real mind opening techniques that you can begin using immediately when presenting and raising money.