IBP Vetting Presentation

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IBP Vetting Presentation

• The idea is to pitch your preliminary IBP
  technology/plan to the class.
• If you were an investor thinking about providing
  initial seed money for a proposed venture, what
  information would YOU want in order to make an
  informed decision before investing in an early
  stage venture?
• Alternatively, think of this presentation as one
  you might make to an INTERNAL Venture Funding
  group.

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IBP Vetting Presentation

• You are not trying to sell your idea, you are
  trying to explain/present the analysis you have
  conducted thus far.
• Here is what we are thinking vs. Here is why
  you should invest in this idea

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IBP Vetting Presentation

• 15 minutes (give or take)
• Introduce your technology
• Application vs. science
• Opportunity(ies) considered
• Advantages offered
• Existing product/services?
• Preliminary analysis of market(s)
• Industry, customers, segments, channels?
• Competitive landscape
• Rivals? Five forces?
• Whats the business model?
• Keys to success
• Major hurdles
• Viability
• You may want to use the Strategy Diamond as a
  framework
• This is a suggested outline. Each of your IBPs is
  unique.

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Your assignment

• Listen to each team and consider the viability of
  their expressed opportunities
• Offer constructive feedback on their ideas
• Positive and negative
• Omissions?
• False assumptions?
• Alternative scenarios?
• Flawed logic?

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Assignment Format

• No more than 2 pages, single spaced feedback for
  each team
• Start with your most serious/important comments
  first
• Number your comments
• Offer solutions, alternatives or assistance when
  possible
• Work as a group
• Feedback due to me Tuesday, November 10th
• I will pass the feedback onto each group, and to
  Tom and John
• Your grade will be a function of my assessment,
  as well as an assessment from each team on the
  quality of your feedback (each group will be
  given a form to critique the quality of the
  feedback they were given from the other teams)