Are you an angel investor in cyber security companies? Are you currently fund raising for your new cyber security company? Do you work in venture capital and invest in cyber? If you 've answered yes to any of these questions then you are are either producing slide decks which are too long or you are spending time looking at slide decks which are too long. Last year, I switched from being a cyber security executive to a venture capitalist focusing on early stage cyber companies. I had always been supportive of the start-up community and had done a bunch of angel investing. In 2016 I started focusing on angel investing full time and in 2017 I launched Gula Tech Adventures which is a fund focused exclusively on cyber security. Over the past …show more content…
Saying that you 've solved cyber security, you increase ROI, .etc isn 't enough to get an investor excited these days. Their next question will be "how?" or "so what?". If your "What" slide helps you differentiate from your competition, this makes it easier for an investor to get excited. Honesty and humility also goes a real long way with investors. Calling out exactly what your advantages are is something a venture capitalist or investor can work with. SLIDE TWO - THE "HOW" In one slide, describe how you do your "what" without giving away any proprietary secrets but conveying your ability and comprehension of the problem. Many pitch decks I see completely skip the "what" slide and start with the "how". I see many entrepreneurs dive right into the "how" as a first introduction to their company. This can be hard for an investor to figure out exactly why you are doing something or why a customer would want to spend money with you on your solution. The "how" slide should answer many of the basic questions without being evasive. Questions that need to be answered include: Cloud or on-prem. Which components are cloud? Don 't say artificial intelligence or machine learning. Instead be specific where you algorithms run on which data and how they manifest in the customer. Agents or no agents? How is it deployed? If you parse logs, which vendors are supported? If you have open source or commercial components, call them out. If it is a cloud solution, does
In my Powerpoint display I am creating an easy to follow guide for the CNWL and BCS App-a-thon. This display consists of ten slides. Each slide gives information about the event and what to expect on the day. For example No.1.Outline slide is about the underlying contents of the event 2.Introduction slide is basically saying what the event is all about 3.What is a mobile app slide, states the mobile app and its uses.4.What is an Android
This about you, what you want to accomplish with the presentation and how you are going to attain the goal of getting them “there.” Make sure your goal is an achievable challenge. At this point your goal becomes your big idea. This is where it becomes about the audience. You want the audience to change to your side basically, whether it is to your opinion, to buy a specific product, or to implement a new idea. The big idea is how you get them to change, how you get them from “here” to “there.” Most presentations look like a squiggly line, veering off in different direction with radical turns throughout. You need to make a straight line approach, the most effective path. Your objective is to effectively get the audience to change, you are not there to be interesting. Always remember to use the rule of three, it has worked in literature, comedy, and in memories. Simply put people are more likely to remember things in threes. For a presentation you must consolidate it down to three concepts.
What seems to be the main issue is actually getting to build the prototype. Without it, lot of potential investors turned it down. For venture capitals and future potential clients to show further interest, Shane needs to show them a working prototype. However the prototype itself requires an investment of $250,000, this has proven to be difficult to raise. Without the prototype no one is willing to invest in the business, and without the investment Shane is unable to build a prototype. He is stuck in a vicious cycle and needs to find a different way to raise capital for his prototype.
you will need to prepare a set of slides and presentation notes (speaker notes with details that you will give during the presentation).
(The introduction is used for you to model processes for the students to show them how you expect work to be done.)
Give a brief background of issue. If you must use a slide presentation, keep to a minimum. In person works well, plan on leaving 25% of allotted time for questions.
Prepare a 10-minute (8-10 slides; no larger than 5 MB) PowerPoint presentation related to the problem, evidence appraisal, and practice implications.
Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, with a minimum of 100 words of speaker notes, in which you summarize each example and address the following questions:
SecureNet INC, a software enterprise that focuses on the e-commerce security, is trying to raise a first round of funding in October 2000. The company has been unsuccessful in attracting funding from venture capitalists, and raised a small round seeds from local investors in Virginia. In the following two month, SecureNet financed a $250,000 bridge loan from an Angel investor called Trio LLC. Trio has proposed to offer a $ 1.4 million a Series A funding of convertible preferred stock. Right now, Richard Goodson, the CEO of SecureNet must decide whether to accept the offer from Trio LLC, or come back to find other VC investors.
In order to prepare your presentations, you should use the following questions and references as a starting point. You may also want to look for additional references. In preparing your slides, please remember your presentation should take a maximum of 5 minutes and leave at least 10 minutes for an interesting class discussion.
Additionally, according to the study of Kruglanski and colleagues in “Why We Need Answers” by Maria Konnikova, it shows people that watch the slide
What is…. And what could be? That is how a presentation can go depending on how you present your message. Using Steve Jobs and MLK (both known to history as being great speakers and motivators), Nancy Duarte showed that these men did not rely on some pre-written speech to dictate how their messages would come across. Establishing your point, acknowledging what is and what could be, and finally say why others should listen to what you have to say. It is also critical to make sure you are addressing the right audience. If you stick to a boring presentation, there is no clear vision for the future.
Create a 5-6 minute presentation using PowerPoint visuals. Make sure your PowerPoint follows the guidelines discussed in class. The purpose of the presentation should be to inform the audience. Your presentation should reflect a topic, theme, or issue relevant to your major. For ideas of topics, you may consider looking at issues of Crains’ Chicago, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, cnn.com, The Huffington Post, NPR.org, Slate, Wired, or industry-specific papers/journals in your area of study.
Heather Evans is a very recent graduate from Harvard Business School and has been working on getting her venture off the ground for quite some time. She has the know-how and skill in her industry but not the funds. This is why she is seeking out investors. This is proving to be more difficult and time consuming than she had anticipated. I think most people have this experience at one time or another especially if they are starting their own business. The great ideas of the world do not always get all the support in the world.
Give background, read what’s on the PowerPoint. Once done say “which leads me to my first point, The Problem.”