4 Tips for Pitching Your Business in 2 Minutes | Inc.com

Doing a two-minute investor pitch can be incredibly daunting. Here are tips to hone your pitch and get the next meeting.

Two minutes. You probably wait longer for your coffee at your local shop.  Two minutes can seem like a very short time, unless you’re on in the hot seat, facing four investors and an entire audience, asking for funding. At that moment, time goes by like lightning. Last month at a local pitch contest, I saw two presenters lose precious time when they lost their train of thought in the middle of their two minute pitch.

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Common Mistakes in Investor Pitches | Startup Weekend Orange County

Pitching to investors is a crucial moment in your company’s life. It’s easy to get so caught up talking about all the big-picture awesomeness of your product that you forget to go into the specifics of your business plan. But investors expect your to address both the business and product sides of your endeavour. If you spend to much time explaining one side or the other, it might leave investors unsatisfied or confused about your company. So, in order to help you better understand what specifically investors are looking for in a presentation, we at YetiZen have decided to describe some of the most common mistakes in investor pitches and how to avoid them.

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