The ”Less Is More – The Art Of The Business Pitch” event with Juliane Schulze was part of the TWIST Webinars for Startups, organized by Media Deals, Foundation Neo Media and META Polska.After the presentation of TWIST and StartUp Europe, Juliane Schulze started the discussion covering key point in creating an ideal business pitch: - How to prepare a business presentation
- Why do I need to do a business presentation?
- What’s behind a business pitch?
- What are investors looking for?
- What do investors want to know?
- Typical pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Following Juliane Schulze’s presentation, participants got the chance to ask her questions regarding their business pitches.
Juliane Schulze is Member of the Board of Media Deals, a Pan-European investor network being constituted of business angels and early-stage venture capital funds. Since its creation in 2008, Media Deals has been promoting and encouraging early-stage equity investment in high-growth startup companies in the area of digital technology and cutting-edge media content technologies. Media Deals is a member of EBAN, EBN and NEM. As Executive Advisor Juliane Schulze specializes in strategic financing and business consulting of technology driven creative enterprises, as coach and mentor she supports SMEs in business planning and in getting ready for investment. As trainer and moderator she holds workshops on access to finance and entrepreneurship at investment and innovation forums, at business training events, as well as at leading business incubators. She is Director of the MEDIA supported investor training programme ENTER Europe and Member of the Advisory Board of the EU-project InvestHorizon.TWIST DIGITAL is the H2020 action, under the Startup Europe umbrella,
that provides Transregional Web Innovative Services for Thriving
Digital and Mobile to web entrepreneurs aiming at scaling up and
competing in the global market around 4 interconnected web
entrepreneurship startup ecosystems and hubs (Rome, Lille, Stockholm and
Warsaw).
Startup Europe aims to
strengthen the business environment for web and ICT entrepreneurs so
that their ideas and business can start and grow in the EU. Startup
Europe contributes to the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan.
Startup Europe's objectives are:
- to reinforce the links between
people, business and associations who build and scale up the startup
ecosystem (e.g. the Web Investors Forum, the Accelerator Assembly, the
Crowdfunding Network)
- to inspire entrepreneurs and provide
role models (e.g. the Leaders Club and their Startup Manifesto, the
Startup Europe Roadshow)
- to celebrate new and innovative startups
(with Tech All Stars and Europioneers), help them to expand their
business (Startup Europe Partnership, ACE Acceleration Programme), and
give them access to funding under Horizon 2020.