Instructor Overview

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

Once students have created a business plan or a business model canvas, this course will teach them the Pitch Creator Framework for efficiently creating three types of business pitches that founders/CEOs use to raise capital for their businesses. Students can then adapt these three types of business pitches (or portions of them) to fit the specific requirements of any business pitch event or competition.

Please note: this online course does not provide details on how to develop a business plan or business model canvas.


Pedagogy

This course is designed to teach students the three types of pitches that founders/CEOs use to raise capital because:

  • It prepares students for any collegiate business pitch event/competition.
  • If students pursue a career in entrepreneurship, they will gain an efficient and replicable framework (Students can download all the templates, e-guides, and e-books in the course and use them in the future.)



Applicable to Most Companies/Situations

The Pitch Creator Framework provides fundamental principles and an efficient approach that can be applied to across a wide range of companies and situations including:

  • Different business models - startups, traditional businesses, and small businesses.
  • Raising equity capital - angel, seed, venture, and growth equity rounds.
  • Raising debt capital - private loans, small business loans, and traditional debt rounds. 
  • Grants and non-recourse loans. 



Testimonials

Check out our Testimonials from:

  • College/university instructors
  • Late-stage company CEOs
  • Early-stage company founders
  • Other instructors
  • Business pitch competition winners


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 works best." 

 

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

Student Entrepreneur Overview

Students will learn how to create the three types of investor pitches they 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, students will have created an effective version of each.

Entrepreneurship Center Director

"Pitch Creator's online course allowed me to measure how much each student improved while preparing for our annual pitch competition." 


Henry Mortimer
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
University of Baltimore


How This Course Helps

Without this course

Creating the three types of business pitches requires communicating many concepts about your business that investors (or 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

Students can follow the chapters and step-by-step instructions to learn the right concepts in the right order, so no time is wasted. As you watch video lessons, you will use templates/examples to build effective versions of your three types of business pitches. Also, you can download the templates, e-guides, and e-books in the course and use them anytime in the future.

Entrepreneurial Finance Instructor


"After using Pitch Creator's online course for the first time in my class, the pitches were significantly better than previous semesters — they were organized, clear, and concise." 

 

Jason Pappas
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship
University of Maryland Baltimore County


What Will Students Learn?

✦  The Pitch Creator Framework for efficiently creating the three types of business pitches that founders/CEOs use.

✦  Why, when, and how to use the three types of business pitches for your collegiate event/competition and in the real world after graduation.

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

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

✦  Ways to practice and avoid costly mistakes.

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship


“Pitch Creator's course is a tremendous resource to prepare students for a business pitch presentation. Also, it freed up my time to focus on larger conceptual issues and introduce deeper, richer, more rigorous material.”

 

Joseph Olchefske
Adjunct Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Education


Course Curriculum

This online course is a combination of:

  • Written lessons
  • Video lessons with written summaries
  • Downloadable templates and e-books which can be used in the future


Chapter Summaries


Welcome to the Course

  • The Pitch Creator Framework
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) with this course


Getting Started

  • The founder/CEO perspective
  • Business pitch mindset
  • Goals and expectations


Slide Deck (Listen to Me Pitch)

  • Learn how to efficiently create this type of business pitch using our process, templates and examples
  • When delivering your verbal presentation, you will have the full attention of the audience


Intro/Attention Grabber (Elevator Pitch)

  • Quickly introduce your business in an impactful way
  • Grab the attention of judges (investors) and get them interested in learning more about your business


Executive/Investment Summary (Read Me Pitch)

  • Learn how to efficiently create this type of business pitch using our process, templates and examples 
  • You will provide this type of business pitch to judges (investors) before you meet them in person


Basic Presentation Skills

  • Save time when creating your slides
  • Improve your verbal pitch presentation
  • Avoid mistakes


Appendix

  • Additional Pitch Creator resources
  • Other recommended reading
  • About your instructor

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



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 teammates, instructor/TA, and peers. 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, e-guides, and e-books 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 for initial public offerings (IPOs) and merger/acquisition (M&A) transactions.

Mr. Tagler founded Pitch Creator in 2014 as a social-impact organization to teach entrepreneurs in the Baltimore area how to communicate with investors and raise capital for their businesses (origin story). 

Since then, Pitch Creator's classes and online courses have been used by over 3,000 entrepreneurs and students to raise capital or prepare for business pitch competitions. The entrepreneurs who have volunteered testimonials for the Pitch Creator website have raised over $100 million for their businesses. 

The Pitch Creator team includes experienced investors and instructors who have collectively invested over $1 billion in private companies. That expertise is baked into our courses and education platform.

Pitch Creator's education platform is used by:

  • Founders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs
  • College and university Instructors
  • Other educators - at  workforce development programs, social-impact programs, incubators, accelerators, and angel groups 


The Pitch Creator team believes that grit, persistence, and hustle correlate with long-term entrepreneurial success. We encourage this by sponsoring awards for entrepreneurs at colleges, universities, and other programs (awards).

Mr. Tagler and Pitch Creator have been featured in Inc Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine Online (press).  When not traveling for work or teaching, he enjoys hiking, mountain biking, skiing, and the Colorado mountains with his family.