Your Pitch Video must be ONLY 60 Seconds or it will not be considered. Your
Pitch Video must be in English and have a clear shot of your upper body (sitting
or standing). Please submit your video by either a YouTube or a Vimeo URL.
Check out Paul Graham’s advice on story telling when
pitching:
"Your goal, and your only goal, is to make investors feel it's not safe to cross
you off. And there is a verb for convincing someone that something is not safe.
It sounds dramatic, but your goal is to frighten them. But what frightens them?
The possibility that you might become really big. They know there are maybe a
few companies that will become really big….Before you start meeting
investors, put together a rough draft of your fundraising vertebrae. These are
the 3-4 points that compromise the narrative of why your company will be really
big.
Together, if investors believed in any of these points, they’d be afraid
not to bet on you. As you do, keep in mind that there is an important
distinction between what the business is and how you tell the story of what your
business is. Your conversations with investors should influence the latter, not
the former. No investor knows your business as well as you do.”