Venture Ready Pitching(5-week Course)
Course Description
VCs receive thousands of pitch decks, hear hundreds of pitches, and make only a small handful of investments each year. To attract the interest of VCs, presentations need to be remarkable, easy to understand, and clearly demonstrate the venture-ready, venture-scale aspects of the company.
In this course, students learn how to create exceptional pitches that show the full potential of their company in a way that gets investors to pay attention. Students hone skills through in-depth analysis of examples, hands-on activities, and critiquing each other’s work. They have the option to submit one of their own presentation decks for peer and instructor feedback.
Curriculum:
Week 1: Storyboarding the narrative
Ultimate goal of pitching
Audience considerations
Narrattive storyboard
Week 2: The Pitch Deck
Week 3: Impactful slides
Week 4
Putting it all together
Outsourcing, options, and the role of AI
Week 5: Class presentations
Bio
Patricia Liu is a startup pitch advisor and founder of Venture-Ready Pitching. She advises startups on crafting and delivering investor-ready pitches. Patricia emphasizes a first-principles approach, developed during her multidimensional success in diverse careers at the forefront of industry innovations worldwide – from leading multi-million-dollar transformations for Fortune 500 clients at Accenture, to pioneering culinary & hospitality innovations with world-renowned chefs, including Thomas Keller of The French Laundry.
Founders frequently credit her with transformative shifts that extend beyond pitching to their entire startup journey. Patricia has pitch-advised hundreds of companies and founders, from early-stage to Fortune 100. She works with top-tier VCs and accelerators, including Inception Studio, The Residency, and Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center.
Patricia is Co-President of MIT NorCal Angels and advises through HBS Angels. She received SB and MEng degrees in computer science from MIT.