From Lean Canvas to Lean Pitch Leveraging the Lean Canvas to A0ract Investors
Oct 22, 2014
From Lean Canvas to Lean Pitch Leveraging the Lean Canvas to A0ract Investors
Startups are like Subprime Loans
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Low Risk, 3‐5 % yield
Medium Risk, 6‐10 % yield
Value: Known!
Risk – Unknown! Yield – Unknown! Value – ???
How Investors Win – Bundling Risk
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• One investment with a 10% chance of a 20x ROI is a gamble
• Ten investments with a 10% chance of a 20x ROI doubles your money
How You Win – Get Included!
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To be included in the bundle, you need to help investors quanAfy your risk (low is good!) and yield (high is good!).
The lean canvas helps you do that! Why? Because…
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Investors Unconsciously Think in Lean
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Phase Investors Running Lean by Ash Maurya
Phase 1 Prove you have a Business Problem / SoluPon Fit
Phase 2 Prove you have a Product SoluPon / Market Fit
Phase 3 Prove you can Execute Scale
Lean Canvas to the Lean Pitch
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• Prove you have a Business
• Prove you have a Product
• Prove you can Execute
Each proof requires the prior. Execu:on can be improved if you have a good product. Product issues can be solved if you have a good business.
Prove you have a Business Needs to be rock solid
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• They are buying into you as much as the idea! • What makes you more likely to succeed? You!
• What is your target market? • How big is it and who parPcipates in it?
Customer Segments
• What problem are you trying to solve? • How do you know it’s a problem & how big is it?
Problem
• How much do they pay for soluPons today? • If they don’t pay now, why in the future? Revenue
Intro & Agenda
Market Overview
Business Drivers
Market
Challenges
Impact by Segment
Slides
Prove you have a Product Needs to be highly credible
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• What are you selling and for how much? • Who are you compePng against? SoluPon
• How do you differenPate yourself? • What’s the impact on your compePPve posiPon
Unique Value ProposiPon
• Why won’t company X ‐ who is bigger, more mature, and beaer funded ‐ simply copy you?
Unfair Advantages
• How are you going to reach the customer? • What is the sales and markePng strategy? Channels
SoluPon Overview
Pricing Strategy
CompePPve Assessment
MarkePng Strategy
Sales
Strategy
Slides
Prove you can Execute Except for the end-game, this will change!
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• How are you going to structure your team? • How are you going to grow?
ExecuPon Plan
• What are your key tasks & milestones? • How should your progress be judged? Key Metrics
• How much will it take to fund your acPviPes? • What are your financial projecPons?
Cost Structure
• What’s the end‐game: go public or sell out? • How much do you need and what do we get?
What’s in it for the investor?
ExecuPon Plan
Key Dates & Metrics
Financial Plan
Funding Strategy
Q&A &
Feedback
Slides
Closing Thoughts
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• Investors are looking for high yield with controllable risk
• For a start‐up, Business > Product > ExecuPon
• The lean canvas helps you think through your pitch
• Three things are missing:
• Their end‐game – whens the payout & how much? • Your execuAon plan – how do you deliver the goods? • The value of you – why are you a beaer bet than the next guy?
• You can present your pitch in 15 to 20 slides