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What Are The 7 Steps You Need To Take Before Every Investor Meeting?
I’ll never forget how nervous I was before my presenting to a VC for the first time. I was an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at a VC fund based in San Francisco, and we were going to give a dry-run presentation to Dave and Alain, the two VC partners I was working with.
We were driving up from the peninsula to the fund’s office in the Embarcadero in San Francisco. It’s about a one-hour drive from my house, give or take, depending upon traffic.
We were about halfway through the drive when I realized that I had left my computer (with the presentation on it) at home.
“Do you have a backup of the presentation on a stick?” I asked “Jim”, my co-founder.
Fortunately, Jim had the backup I had given him, so we continued on to San Francisco.
I told Dave and Alain that I had forgotten the pitch. Alain looked at me, smiled, laughed, and said, “It’s just us, Brett.”
Yes this was a practice presentation, and yes I got lucky. But this event brings up step number 1 when you are pitching to investors:
Step Number 1: You always need multiple backups.
Obeying the multiple backup rule has saved me more than once. Sometimes you forget to…
