First-Time CEO
$5.0+ million raised
"As a first-time founder, pitching your company is incredibly daunting. For me, Pitch Creator's online course boiled the art of the pitch down into concise, consumable parts that I used to raise over $1,800,000 in my seed round."
Param Shah, Founder and CEO
Factory Four
Course Overview
This course is an efficient way to develop effective versions of the three types of business pitches you need when communicating with investors and raising capital:
1. “Elevator Pitch” (attention grabber/intro)
2. “Read Me Pitch” (investment summary for email or print)
3. “Listen to Me Pitch” (slide deck for your in-person presentation)
By the end of this course, you will have an effective version of each and be able to adapt them to different investor audiences (and as your business changes in the future).
Leveraging AI
This course includes how and when to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help you craft effective versions of the three types of business pitches as efficiently as possible.
Value & Results
Compared to a Pitch Coach
If you work through this course and develop your three types of business pitches to investors, we are confident you will get more value out of this course than an hour with a pitch coach (usually $200 to $500 per hour).
Opportunity Cost of Your Time
Many founders/CEOs struggle for 6-18 months trying to create just a slide deck (Listen-to-me Pitch). Check out Kristen's Testimonial.
This online course takes you on an efficient learning journey where you create the three types of business pitches you will need to be successful when communicating with investors and raising capital.
We have had some founders complete this course on their own in a weekend and win a pitch competition the following week. However, founders/CEOs who are preparing to raise an equity round (angel, seed, venture capital, growth equity) or for a business loan application, usually take between 4 to 10 weeks to complete this course.
Testimonials - Over $100 million Raised
Just the founders/CEOs who have volunteered testimonials for our website (late-stage CEOs and early-stage CEOs) have collectively raised over $100 million for their businesses.
This is a small fraction of the over 2,500 entrepreneurs who have taken our online courses, so the actual amount raised is higher.
ROI - Over 400x
Many CEOs/entrepreneurs have used this course to secure their first commitment from investors. Some have gone on to raise millions for their businesses.
If you do nothing other than use this course to raise your first $25,000 (see Winston Frazer's testimonial below), your return on investment will be over 400 times the cost of this course!
First-Time CEO
Raised $250k+ angel round
“It allowed me to raise my first $25,000 and then continue to raise my angel round.”
Winston Frazer, CEO and Founder
Danae Prosthetics
Comparison
✘ Without this course:
Creating the three types of investor pitches above requires communicating dozens of aspects/concepts about your business that investors care about (which are also different than what your customers care about). You need to learn, organize and distill these concepts in a way that makes sense to investors.
The problem is that other learning resources are fragmented and unorganized. Therefore, many CEOs spend 6-18 months struggling to develop an effective pitch to investors and the opportunity cost of time (both for the CEO and business) is extremely high.
✔ With this course:
We take you on an efficient learning journey to create the three types of business pitches you need to be successful when communicating with investors and raising capital.
You will learn concepts and work through them in the right order so you don't waste time. As you watch video lessons, you will use templates/examples and follow step-by-step instructions to accelerate your learning process.
CEO Challenges
» Challenge #1: You need to communicate effectively with investors.
For each company they invest in, angel groups evaluate ~40 companies, and venture capital firms evaluate 100+ companies.
» Challenge #2: Fundraising cannot be delegated or outsourced.
Investors are backing the founder/CEO, who must take the lead and be heavily involved in the fundraising process.
» Challenge #3: You have a high opportunity cost of time.
The time you spend fundraising is time that you could be spending on improving your product, driving new sales, and/or hiring employees.
» Challenge #4: Your business has an opportunity cost of time.
Many CEOs spend 6-18 months trying to create an effective pitch to investors by trial and error.
What Will You Learn?
(So you can tackle those challenges!)
1. How to communicate effectively with investors and improve the odds of raising capital.
2. How to efficiently craft the three types of business pitches you need to be successful when communicating with investors and raising capital.
3. Specific presentation skills for pitching investors.
4. How to "speak the language" of your investor audience.
5. Ways to practice and avoid costly mistakes.
Prerequisite for Business Pitch Competitions
If you are competing in a business pitch competition, please develop a business plan (or at least a business model canvas) before taking this course. Then, this course will teach you how to present that information to investors in the most effective way.
Please note that this course does NOT cover how to develop a business plan or business model canvas.
First-Time CEO
$3.0+ million raised
“Pitch Creator is a wonderful resource. It has been meaningful in our $1.0+ million round of investment and presentations we’ve given across the country.”
Carolyn Yarina, CEO and Co-Founder
Sisu Global Health
6-Month Online Course License
When you purchase, you will receive a 6-month online course license (like a semester class).
In a weekend, you can work through this course on your own and develop the three types of business pitches based on our templates, examples, and e-books/guides. We have had customers do that and win pitch competitions.
However, if you are raising capital for your business, we suggest that you stop and get feedback (from colleagues and a mentor/coach) on your first draft of each type of business pitch. Then, integrate that feedback into your second draft before progressing to the next chapter of the course.
This will improve the quality and end result of your business pitches. Most people take 4 to 10 weeks to complete the course this way depending on how much feedback they receive, where they are starting from, and how much they want to improve.
However, the 6-month online course license gives you plenty of time to rewatch some of the instructional videos (if needed) after you do a "dry run" practice session, your pitch competition, and/or a real investor meeting(s).
Late-Stage CEO
$30+ million raised
"Pitch Creator helped me professionalize my investor presentation. I knew my business and industry well but did not know how to communicate it effectively to investors."
Michael Keeler, CEO & Founder
LeaseAccelerator
How is This Course Different?
(from other learning resources out there)
1. Other learning materials concentrate on the slide deck. This course improves your odds of getting an investment by teaching you how to develop all three types of business pitches to investors, which you will need to be successful.
2. Other learning resources are not curated for learning efficiency. We designed this course to be the most efficient way to create an effective pitch to investors.
3. Most other learning resources focus only on startups. What you learn in this course are fundamental principles of communicating with investors and raising capital, which can be applied to:
- Small/traditional companies with defined business models; and
- Startups looking to disrupt large markets with new business models.
Entrepreneurial Finance Professor
Graduate-level Class with 75+ students per year
"This is an amazing course and I incorporate it in the curriculum of all of my Entrepreneurial Finance classes both in-person and online."
Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Finance
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Course Chapters
This online course is a combination of written lessons, video instruction, templates, examples, and downloadable e-books/guides. The course chapters are the following:
✦ Welcome Chapter: Overview and Strategies for Efficiency
In this overview section, we will cover how to create effective versions of each of your three types of business pitches as efficiently as possible.
✦ Chapter 1: Getting Started
Tips on how to attack common fundraising challenges and how this course will help.
✦ Chapter 2: Investment Summary (Read-me Pitch)
Use this type of pitch for email (or print) and get investors interested in your business before you meet them in person.
✦ Chapter 3: Basic Presentation Skills
What you need to know before you create your slide deck, so you don't waste time.
✦ Chapter 4: The Slide Deck (Listen-to-Me Pitch).
Use this pitch to deliver your verbal presentation to investors and you will have their full attention.
✦ Chapter 5: The Elevator Pitch
This is your shortest pitch and how you will grab a potential investor's attention.
✦ Chapter 6: Optional Deep Dive - Advanced Slide Deck
After you have created all three versions of your business pitches using the templates in this course, this optional chapter has additional resources to help take your slide deck to the next level.
✦ Chapter 7: Appendix
Additional Pitch Creator resources and recommended reading for further study.
Video Lesson Previews
▶ Introduction: Lesson 1
▶ Presentation Skills: Lesson 1
Entrepreneurship Professor
Dean of Education
“I purchased the online course and completed it. I was very impressed with the content, flow, and ideas presented.”
Josh Smith, Dean, School of Education
Loyola University Maryland
Your Instructor
Jason Tagler
Jason Tagler has 20 years of experience investing in private companies. Prior to that, as an investment banker, he helped CEOs prepare their pitches to investors for initial public offerings (IPO) or sale transactions (M&A).
Mr. Tagler founded Pitch Creator in 2014 to teach entrepreneurs in the Baltimore area how to communicate with investors and raise capital for their businesses.
Since then, Pitch Creator's online courses have been used by founders/CEOs, and instructors at colleges, universities, incubators, accelerators and workforce development programs. Mr. Tagler and Pitch Creator have been featured in Inc Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine Online.
When not traveling for work or teaching, he enjoys hiking, mountain biking, skiing, and the Colorado mountains with his family.
60-Day Money-Back Guarantee
If you work through the course and put in the time to get feedback on each draft (as suggested), we are confident you will get more value out of this course than an hour with a pitch coach (usually $200 to $500 per hour or more).
However, if do not feel that this course offered at least as much value as an hour with a pitch coach then we will refund your money.
Please send an email to us at [email protected] within 60 days of purchase and include the following: 1) your feedback (so we can improve) about how this course fell short on delivering that value; and 2) your draft "Read Me Pitch" and "Listen to Me Pitch" attached to the email (if you have created them).
Frequently Asked Questions
» Does this course leverage AI?
Yes. There are specific lessons on how and when to leverage AI tools to help you craft effective versions of the three types of business pitches as efficiently as possible.
» Are there prerequisites for this course?
If you are competing in a business pitch competition, please develop a business plan, or at least a business model canvas, before taking this course.
» Does this course teach how to create a business plan?
No. This course does not cover how to develop a business plan, a business model, or a business model canvas. It focuses on the topics that investors care most about and how to present that information to them in the most effective way.
» How long does it take to complete this course?
In a weekend, you can work through this course on your own and develop the three types of business pitches based on our templates, examples, and e-books/guides. We have had customers do that and win pitch competitions.
However, if you are raising capital for your business, we suggest that you stop and get feedback on your first draft of each type of business pitch. Then, integrate that feedback into your second draft before progressing to the next chapter of the course.
This will improve the quality and end result of your business pitches. Most people take 4 to 10 weeks to complete the course this way depending on how much feedback they receive, where they are starting from, and how much they want to improve.
» What if I am unhappy with the value of this course?
See our 60-day, money-back guarantee above.