Who doesn’t like Steve Jobs’ speech and presentation?

I am so glad that I had chance to see and learn this. I went to a semi-public event in Scottsdale the other day. Most audiences are just someone like me who have been working very hard to start their own entrepreneur journey. Honestly, this journey isn’t easy at all. We all believe that we have an awesome product and service that can change the world. However, we all lack of funding to jump start and to move fast. Using your saving account and working as solo-entrepreneur may get you to the destination eventually, but it will take 10x or 100x longer to reach the goal. That’s where those angels come in to help entrepreneurs to move forward. We all need investors and help!

This is probably the most important lesson for me in the past 6 years on my journey. I need to learn how to get funding and use other people’s money (OPM) to do something I wasn’t able to accomplish! So here are the tricks I’ve learned and need to practice and use it in the coming future.

One of the Investors shares the secrets on how to pitch to the investors. Basically you only have 10 minutes with 10 slides to get investor’s attention and persuade them to hand you the $10M check before you get off the stage. I don’t care if you read this post or not, this is pretty much written for myself as notes. So I can follow the steps and present my own project to the investors.

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