Pitch & Demo Practice

This week team, BAX presented our pitch and demo practice before our final startup pitch presentation to our professors, our classmates, and… *DUN DUN DUN*…our guest panel of judges/investors.

I will be honest, I was feeling both confident but at the same time a bit hesitant about our pitch and demo practice before we presented. I was feeling confident about it because we collectively set the goal to ourselves to divide and conquer the work that would go into our presentation, with enough time before hand to get it just right. We knew we had already gathered all our evidence and content throughout the three months of sweat, tears, and hard work — now it was just time to put it all together.

At the same time, I was feeling hesitant about our presentation because I had kept with me a mentality of doubtfulness when it came to the clarity and completion of content we delivered each presentation. Whether it was our value proposition, our business model canvas, or something else, someone in the class would almost always comment on having doubtfulness or not enough clarity on the content we presented.

“For the first time, I think I finally understand what you guys are doing and what your product is.”

That was until this week, when for the first time our peers seemed to have received our pitch with enough clarity to understand what BAX is about. Apart from having minor areas of opportunity of betterment in our deck structure and minor fixable details in our product demo, our practice pitch and demo were well received.

To prepare for final pitch and demo day, all of us need to practice our presentation as a team, as we have a tendency of rambling on to our audience, as well as having no planned transitions when switching between slides, or when handing off the deck to another teammate. I know for a fact that I personally need to practice on explaining the “why” behind the information I talk about, while at the same being concise — challenge accepted.

Although our main goal as a team this next Tuesday is to obviously convince our panel of judges and investors that our startup idea is viable, and worth investing on, I know for a fact that whatever the results end up being, our team will have learned the values of teamwork, as well as the essentials of building a successful lean-startup.