EP37 Pitching to Investors: Mastering your Communication and Presentation Skills with Ryan Warriner
January 18, 2022
Do you know what to say when you are in front of investors or pitching your idea to your boss or your next business partner? It's easy when you know how to do it, off-the-top of your head like our expert, Ryan Warriner, The Master of Presentations and a Professor of Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Ryan Warriner is a Professor of Communication as well as Director and Executive Coach at Professional Presentation Services. With over a decade of professional speaking experience and expertise, Ryan has mastered the art and science of enhancing communication. He has developed a compassionate, strategic, highly effective approach to professional communication. He believes in systematically developing skill and building confidence in each speaker to improve both their message and delivery.
In this week's episode, Ryan shares how to prepare for your investors meeting and to communicate in a way that is effective, but speak volumes in the boardroom with your potential investors so you can give yourself the best chance of the highest probability of success.
TL; DR
1. Make sure your pitch is short. And when I say short, I mean like no more than 10 minutes.
2. Do your research on your potential investors. (What their portfolio is, what they know, what they do not know?)
3. Don't explain the size of the market because Venture Capitalists know this. (Mention it, just don't dwell on it)
4. Find ways in your presentation to prompt your potential investors and VC's to ask questions at the end.
5. Speak to more people so you have more vocabulary and patterns of speech in your toolbox.
6. Make sure you know your message inside and out.
7. If you can't sum it up in one sentence, you don't know it well enough.
Get "The Effective Presenter" book written by Ryan.
See you next week!
Chris Cownden
In this week's episode, Ryan shares how to prepare for your investors meeting and to communicate in a way that is effective, but speak volumes in the boardroom with your potential investors so you can give yourself the best chance of the highest probability of success.
TL; DR
1. Make sure your pitch is short. And when I say short, I mean like no more than 10 minutes.
2. Do your research on your potential investors. (What their portfolio is, what they know, what they do not know?)
3. Don't explain the size of the market because Venture Capitalists know this. (Mention it, just don't dwell on it)
4. Find ways in your presentation to prompt your potential investors and VC's to ask questions at the end.
5. Speak to more people so you have more vocabulary and patterns of speech in your toolbox.
6. Make sure you know your message inside and out.
7. If you can't sum it up in one sentence, you don't know it well enough.
Get "The Effective Presenter" book written by Ryan.
See you next week!
Chris Cownden