Craft your startup story in a way that will get people to lean into your message

Understand what VCs do, and how to prepare your company to be suitable for venture investment

Study how you can make the perfect pitch presentation, from what should be in your slide to in what order they should appear

1. Storytelling and Why it's so Important.- 2. How Venture Capital Works.- 3. How to Design you Pitch Deck.- 4. What Slides will you Need?.- 5. Slide: The Problem - and Why it is Worth Solving- 6. Slide: The Solution - and How you are Different from Other Solutions on the Market.- 7. Slide: The Product - What Does the Solution Actually Do?.- 8. Slide: Market- Where is the Market Today? Where is it Going?.- 9. Slide: Team - Why You are the Right People to Solve this Problem.- 10. Slide: Traction - How are you Measuring Your Success to Date? What Milestones Have you Hit?.- 11. Slide: The Moat - Why is it Hard for other Startups to do What You're Doing?.- 12. Slide: Business Model - How are you Going to Make Money?.- 13. Slide: Go-To-Market Strategy - What's the 'Beach-head Audience,' and How are you Going to Reach Them?.- 14. Slide: Competitors - Who Else is in the Market? How Else are your Customers Solving the Same Problem?.- 15. Slide: The Ask- How Much are you Raising, and What are you Going to Accomplish with that Money?.- 16. Slide: Timing - Why is Now is the Perfect Time to Start this Company?.- 17. The Take-Home Deck- Should You Have Multiple Versions of your Pitch Deck?.- 18. Who Should you be Talking To? Creating an Investor Lead List..- 19. Getting Introductions- So, How do you Get in Front of the Right People? .- 20. The Investment Thesis- Your Potential Investors Have a Thesis They Use to Guide Their Investments. It's Helpful to Know What it is.- 21. Further Reading - Now that you Have a Pitch, What Else do you Need to Know?.