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
Overview
Think Like A Founder
The Pitch Creator College Foundation Course teaches you how to pitch like a CEO and raise money like a real startup founder. You’ll learn the three essential pitch types used by successful entrepreneurs, so you can shine in:
- Business pitch events and competitions
- Real fundraising opportunities after graduation
What You’ll Learn
This course breaks down the art of pitching so it’s clear, doable, and applicable to any business idea. You’ll learn fundamental principles that apply to many situations:
- Building powerful investor pitches for different business models - startups, small businesses, and established companies.
- Raising equity of all stages - from angel and seed-stage rounds to venture capital and growth-equity funding.
- Raising debt - private loans, small business loans, and traditional financing.
- Applying for grants and other non-dilutive financing.
Meet Your Instructor
Your instructor, Jason Tagler, is the founder of Pitch Creator and has 20+ years of experience investing in private companies (angel, venture capital, and growth equity). He founded Pitch Creator to “level the playing field” for founders outside of Silicon Valley. See more details on Jason's background below.
Get Ready to Own the Stage
Check out how other students and entrepreneurs turned their ideas into real‑world success on our Testimonials page.
Entrepreneurship Center Director
"We have been using Pitch Creator's course to prepare students for our annual pitch competition since 2017. The Pitch Creator coaching framework allows me to see how much each student has improved on core learning objectives."
Henry Mortimer
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
University of Baltimore
Save Time With This Course
Learn the three investor pitches every entrepreneur needs — and save hours figuring it out on your own.
Using this course, you will efficiently create:
1. Attention Grabber (Elevator Pitch): Spark interest in 30 seconds or less.
2. Investment Summary (Read Me Pitch): Tell your story clearly and confidently on paper and in email.
3. Slide Deck (Listen to Me Pitch): Present with confidence.
Without This Course
Building investor pitches from scratch can feel overwhelming. It’s tough to know what details matter most, how to organize your story, and what judges or investors expect. You could waste hours researching, testing, and revising before you ever feel ready to present.
With This Course
You’ll follow a clear step‑by‑step process that teaches the right concepts in the right order, so you can move faster and focus on what actually matters. As you watch guided video lessons, you’ll work alongside templates and real‑world examples to create effective versions of all three pitch types.
You can also download templates, e‑guides, and e‑books — all tools that you’ll keep using long after the course ends.
The Result
You’ll spend less time guessing and more time pitching with confidence, clarity, and results.
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 features a combination of written lessons, video lessons with written summaries, and 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
When you purchase this online course, you will receive a 6-month license (like a semester class).
Most students take 5-8 weeks to complete the course which includes getting feedback from their teammates, instructor/TA, and peers. However, the time it will take you depends on your instructor, your starting point, and how much you want to improve.
With a 6-month license you will have plenty of time to complete the online course, create your own versions of the three pitches using the course templates, and have plenty of time to 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 in Silicon Valley, he helped CEOs prepare their business pitches for initial public offerings (IPOs) and merger/acquisition (M&A) transactions.
Mr. Tagler founded Pitch Creator in Baltimore City in 2014 to help "level the playing field" for entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley (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 (testimonials).
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, which 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 (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.
