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An advice for pitching startups from Anna Dvornikova, SVOD Founder

An advice for pitching startups from Anna Dvornikova, SVOD Founder

An advice for pitching startups
from Anna Dvornikova, SVOD Founder

Friends:

As I was coaching you, I’ve noticed a few common issues. They are minor BUT turn out to be very important:

1. as few text on slides as possible
2. every slide shall have YOUR LOGO (that is your marketing tool!!!)
3. last slide: always contact info
4. showing demo is great, just don’t keep silence. Speak over demo, describe what is going on it. Your voice shall always be heard.

And the last point:

DO YOUR HOMEWORK: go to www.svod.org and review the list of speakers and investors. THAT IS DONE FOR YOU! Find out who your target investors are. They will come and go and it is good to know them, their faces and expertise, so that you do not lose your time AT THE CONFERENCE.

Good luck and we are very much looking forward to welcoming you soon!

—
Anna S. Dvornikova
Founder, SVOD Conference
Managing Partner, TEC Ventures
2014 Women of Influence Award by Silicon Valley Business Journal

Testimonials

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA