Pitch Deck
The Pitch Deck allows you to tell the story about your business idea and serves as a supplemental visual presentation of your product or service.
Presentation Guidelines
To compete in the BizTech Challenge, your pitch deck must consist of a PowerPoint or Google Slide presentation, which is required for the semi-final and final pitch presentations (Prezi presentations are not permitted).
- Must not exceed 7 minutes (up to a 5-minute overview and up to a 2-minute demonstration).
- Must be designed in 16:9 format.
- Voiceover recordings are acceptable.
- Recorded video conferencing footage is acceptable.
- Must be uploaded to YouTube as unlisted.
Tip #1
Keep your presentation brief, yet impactful. Slides are meant to support the verbal narrative and should not be wordy.
Tip #2
Make your presentation stand out by utilizing different venues, props, posters, prototypes, and other creative components.
Tip #3
Select the right charts and graphs to illustrate your data (especially financial) and how you used it to validate your business idea.
Presentation Outline Template
The template below provides an outline of the information that should be included in your presentation. You are not required to follow the order or category names on the slides, but we recommend that your summary addresses these elements.
The judges will evaluate the effectiveness of the product or service's technology business model and customer-market validation.
- Include your team name.
- List each team members' name.
- Describe your business idea. (1 or 2 sentences)
- Explain the problem in the market that you’re trying to solve.
- What is the technology-based product or service that you've designed to solve the problem?
- How will your product or service work?
- How does your problem or service solve the problem?
- Are you making a product or process faster, cheaper, or higher quality?
- Do you think your product or service is something patentable?
- If you are using University IP, be sure to identify the IP and describe all aspects of your solution that would incorporate the IP.
If you’re going to include the optional 2-minute demo, you can include a short tech demo video here, or some screenshots, specs, or design docs. Use that time to show us what your concept would look like.
Tech demos may consist of pictures, drawings, CAD, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
- Who are your potential customers (be specific)?
- What is the size of your market?
Describe what you’ve done to validate that your target market faces the problem that you’ve identified, it’s a problem they want to be solved, and that your solution helps solve the problem in a better, faster, easier, or cheaper way.
Validation exercises can consist of customer interviews, surveys, user testing, and other methods.
- How will you make money?
- If you are a for-profit company, what are your different sources of revenue?
- If you are a non-profit company, who would be potential funders?
- How will you acquire customers?
- What are your distribution channels?
- How will you get your product to market?
- Who is your competition?
- What sets your company apart from existing competitors?
- If your product is a substitute solution, describe how people will solve the problem with your product or services versus how currently solve the problem.
- Include a chart comparing what features your product or service offers versus your competitors. (optional)
If you developed financial projections, including a chart showing the basics: revenue, gross profit, net profit.
Use the Financial Reference Documents that are listed on the Resource page on the BizTech Challenge website.
- Describe how much development work you have done to date.
- Provide an assessment of resources you may already have and what you’ll need
- Describe the next steps toward getting your project to market.