College Foundation Course

2025 Edition


Entrepreneurship Instructors:

This online course is used to prepare student entrepreneurs for a business pitch at the end of your semester class (or for a school-wide event).  

After your student entrepreneurs have developed a business plan or a business model canvas, this course teaches them how to:

  • Focus on the information about their business that investors (judges) care most about;
  • Organize that information in a way that is impactful; and
  • Communicate effectively with investors (judges). 


Please note, this course does not go into detail on how to develop a business model/plan or business model canvas.


Student Entrepreneurs: 

You will learn how to create the three types of investor pitches you need to be successful when preparing for a business pitch competition and when raising capital in the real world:

1. Attention Grabber (Elevator Pitch)

2. Investment Summary (Read-me Pitch)

3. Slide Deck (Listen-to-me pitch)

By the end of this course, you will have an effective version of each.

Entrepreneurial Finance Professor


"All of my Entrepreneurial Finance classes culminate in a business pitch. We tried many different types of learning materials and found that Pitch Creator's online course worked best." 

 

Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Finance
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School


Why Students Use This Course?

Without this course

Creating the three types of business pitches requires communicating many concepts about your business that investors (judges) care about. You need to learn, organize and distill these concepts in a way that makes sense to your audience. This can be difficult and time consuming.


With this course

You just follow the chapters and step-by-step instructions to learn the right concepts in the right order, so you don't waste time. As you watch video lessons, you will use templates/examples to build effective versions of your three types of business pitches.

$250k+ Angel Round

First-Time CEO


“Pitch Creator's course allowed me to raise my first $25,000 and then continue to raise my angel round.”

 

Winston Frazer, CEO and Founder
Danae Prosthetics


What Will You Learn?

✦  How to communicate effectively with investors (judges).

✦  How to quickly and efficiently craft the three types of business pitches.

✦   Specific presentation skills for pitching your business to investors (judges).

✦   How to "speak the language" of your investor audience.

✦  Ways to practice and avoid costly mistakes.

Entrepreneurship Professor

Dean of Education


 “I purchased the course and completed it. Very impressed with the content, flow, and ideas presented.”

 

Josh Smith, Dean, School of Education
Loyola University Maryland



Course Curriculum

This online course is a combination of:

  • Lessons (written and video); and
  • Downloadable e-books, templates, and examples, which you can save for future use.



There are five chapters in this online course:


1.  Introduction. Course overview and business pitch mindset. 


2.  Investment Summary (Read-me Pitch).  Provide this type of business pitch to investors (judges) before you meet them in person.


3.  Basic Presentation Skills. Learning these skills before you build your slide deck will save you time and improve your verbal business pitch. 


4.  Slide Deck (Listen to Me Pitch). Have the full attention of your audience when delivering your verbal business pitch. 


5.  Elevator Pitch (Attention Grabber/Intro).  Quickly introduce your business in an impactful way and grab attention. 


Appendix A - Optional:  Tips for additional/advanced slides.

Appendix B - Optional:  Suggestions for further study.   

6 Month Course License

Like a semester course, when you purchase this online course you will receive a 6-month license. Most students take 5-8 weeks to complete the course including getting feedback from their TA/instructor. However, the time you will take depends on your instructor, your class, where you are starting from, and how much you want to improve.

With 6-month license you will have plenty of time to complete the online course, create your versions of the three pitches using the course templates, and practice. You will also be able to:

  • Download the templates and e-guides for future use.
  • Revisit specific video lessons, if needed.

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 business pitches to investors for initial public offerings (IPO) and merger/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:

  • CEOs/Founders
  • College/University Instructors
  • Other Educators - at  workforce development and social impact programs, incubators/accelerators, and angel groups. 


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.