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Pitching Ideas
Jawwad Farid
alchemya.com
FinanceTrainingCourse.com
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Agenda
Introductions
Why do startups fail?
The voice of the customer?
Pitching case studies
Building Customer Personas
Product – Feature – Pain matrix
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Building a Pitch
Concept Problem Market Sizing
Opportunity Competition Model
Special Sauce
Numbers So What?
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Building a Pitch
Customer? Pain? Profile?
Sales? Process? Revenues
Model
Why you So What?
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Failure: Three Challenges
Opportunity Cost
• Idea
• Timing
• Capital
• Risk
• Investors
Launch
• Product
• Pricing
• Selling
• Shipping
Scale
• Growth
• Expansion
• Scale
• Depth
• Talent
Stage I Decision Stage II
The Bet
Stage III
The Payoff
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Sales
Sales Voice of the customer
Presentation
Pricing it right
Prospect List
Follow up
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The voice of customer
Customer
Pain Points
Reach Demographics
Pitch
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Telling a great story
Engagement
Plot
Respect my intelligence
Get to the point
Roadmap to credibility
Who is the Hero?
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Business Model
Model What are you selling?
Who is buying?
For how much?
How Frequently?
How do you make
money?
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Life cycle of a concept
Cookaracha
• ‘99-’00
• MBA Guides
Avicena
• ‘00-’01
• Corp. Finance Guides
Alchemy
• ‘03-’08
• Risk Training
PRR
• ‘08-’09
• Pakistan Data
Oil Insights
• ‘09-’10
• Oil
LCF
• ‘10-’11
• Risk Training
• Videos
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Life cycle of a concept
Cookaracha
• ‘99-’00
• MBA Guides
Avicena
• ‘00-’01
• Corxp. Finance Guides
Alchemy
• ‘03-’08
• Risk Training
PRR
• ‘08-’09
• Pakistan Data
Oil Insights
• ‘09-’10
• Oil
LCF
• ‘10-’11
• Risk Training
• Videos
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Profiles, Pains and Pitch
Painting a Mona Lisa for your customers
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Pitching Case Studies Ooga Booga Nights
Heels on Wheels
Rent a Bag
Couch Potatoes
Utranchal
Gulf Man
Vivo
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Why do they stand out?
Memorable
Winners
Passion
Credible
Message
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Pitching Case Studies • Competition
• Financials & Business Model Ooga Booga Nights
• Pitch
• Sequence Heels on Wheels
• Process
• Customer Feedback Rent a Bag
• Pitch Couch Potatoes
• 10 year plan
• Visualization Utranchal
• Credibility Gulf Man
• Complex concept Vivo
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Framework for Failure
• Give up check list
• Necessary and sufficient Fail Quickly
• Keeping score
• Recipe Book Fail Often
• You only live once
• Recoup, regroup, re-launch Move on
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Building a Pitch
Concept Problem Market Sizing
Opportunity Competition Model
Special Sauce
Numbers So What?
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Profiles, Pains and Pitch
Painting a Mona Lisa for your customers
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FinanceTrainingCourse.com
INVESTMENT & FUND MANAGEMENT MANDATES
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What do they look like
Schools Economy Markets Politics Peer
group Central Bank
Travel
Common Interests – Conversation topics
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Building a Pitch
Concept Problem Market Sizing
Opportunity Competition Model
Special Sauce
Numbers So What?
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Dimensions / Attributes
•Pain Emotions
•Pitch Message
•Medium Messenger
•Most Receptive Timing
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Dimensions / Attributes
Emotions
• Pain
Message
• Pitch
Messenger
• Medium
Timing
• Most Receptive
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Roadmap to Credibility
•Customer Profile
•Pain Points
Mona Lisa
•Matching Features
•With Pain point
Pitch •First 10 Sales
Call
•Script
Prospect List
•Roadmap
•MAT
Milestones •Revenues
•Scale
Execute
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Exec. Summary
Who are you?
What are you selling
Who is buying?
Why?
Walk me through the sale?
Your Margin on a sale?
Addressable market
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Customer Profile
• Chartered Accountant or MBA from a tier 1 accounting and/or consulting firm
• Has one more educational degree, professional certification or is in the process of picking that up
Education
• 10 – 20 years of professional experience with about 3 – 5 years in the current role
• Has already worked as Financial Controller, the Head of Operations and possibly acting CFO or group head. Responsible for Treasury.
Experience
• Well read, presentable, confident, strong opinions, understands money, portfolio management, markets, risks and returns.
• Pleasant, but knows what he wants. Wants to be sure you know what he needs before he will take the conversation any further. Will push you to say something you would regret later
Personality
• 35 – 50. Married with two (+) kids. Member of local club/ gymkhana
• Runs a charitable trust or is involved in atleast one social activity
• Reads WSJ, FT, Economist and the business section of local news. Follows Bloomberg and CNBC Online.
Demographics
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What does he want? Pain
• When markets are good and numbers are high, limited credit for performance. When markets are down and returns are low or negative, end up sharing the blame.
• Need a third party to shoulder the responsibility and provide a layer of neutrality. Needs to ensure that career destroying negative returns are avoided. Black box effects.
Isolation
• Already has a day job.
• Doesn’t get enough time to do justice to the portfolio.
• Looking for a team to run numbers, report results, identify opportunities and book returns. Wants to be kept in the loop about trading decisions but need the team to run the book.
Attention and Focus
• Need to beat the benchmark as well as the high water mark. Is willing to pay for performance. Hates losing capital.
• Need to understand trade rationale and logic so that he can explain to trustees and board of directors when asked
Results
• Will only trust someone who can understand what he goes through every day and can dissect markets better than he can. Must accept you as a solid professional Connection
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Pitch – Peace of mind
Downside protection with performance track record
All round market leading known team with safe hands and exposure to primary asset classes
Monthly NAV, trustee and reconciliation reporting and detailed trade rationale
Blue chip client base with multiple references and transactions
In house actuarial expertise for ALM mismatch and liquidity modeling
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FinanceTrainingCourse.com
ONLINE BANK TRAINING
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Who needs Finance Education?
Who needs
finance
Students of Business
Small Business Owners
Business Analysts &
Quants
Developers & Tech
Regulatory Reporting
Roles
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Finance e-learning challenges
• Bandwidth preference – low bandwidth
• How do we find it?
• Multi-lingual
• Academic vs. Professional
• Not too much – Competitively priced or free samples
Cost & Afforda
bilty
Langua-ge
Reach Distrib-ution
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Entrepreneurship
Markets
Customer
Products
Sales
Idea
Prototype
Product
Distribution
Sales
Scale
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Jawwad Ahmed Farid
alchemya.com FinanceTrainingCourse.com