Wotch Mauricio Piper
"The Masterclass was essential to being accepted to Wearable World. I can't recommend it highly enough!"
Wotch went on to be accepted at Wearable World in San Francisco, the world's leading HW accelerator
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Discover the sources of funding available (and some that are actually not) for your early-stage startup, complete with their pros and cons.
In no uncertain terms I'll show you where and how to find investors and how to contact them.
Learn the difference between the high-concept pitch, the elevator pitch, and the pitch deck, how they are related, why you need to master them all. Learn how to create a compelling deck to send to investors with a bulletproof template for your slides.
In around two hours, you'll learn what investors are looking for and how to generate enough interest to close your round. Like many things in life, it's much easier once you have learned how it actually works.
The Pitching Masterclass includes around two hours of video content in snackable-sized chapters, each with constantly updated additional in-depth material and resources relevant to it, all the +370 slides as a download for your convenience, additional online resources and suggestions for further reading, a complete introduction to startup metrics basics, pitch performance tips & tricks, and AirBnB's first successful pitchdeck as a real-life example.
If you prefer to learn on an iPhone or iPad, there's a free app on the AppStore for that too! Once you're signed up, one of the first things you can do is download the app (instructions in the course) and sign in to continue there instead or in addition to the desktop browser. (Android is coming. Sorry for having to wait.)
If you're not satisfied with my Masterclass for any reason, I offer a 14 days money-back guarantee! Terms & conditions apply.
"The Masterclass was essential to being accepted to Wearable World. I can't recommend it highly enough!"
Wotch went on to be accepted at Wearable World in San Francisco, the world's leading HW accelerator
"A special thanks to Vidar Andersen for your [pitch] training and for sharing your extensive expertise and years of experience with us. Your clear analysis and practical insights made the training a real enrichment!"
Founder of STRAPTIC™, Pitching Masterclass LIVE @ Gateway Startup Exellence Center, University of Cologne
"Thank you very much for a mind opening Masterclass! I can't remember the last time I learned so much - and I have participated in over sixty other programs of this kind over the years. Interesting, helpful, no boring parts!"
Head of Zentis Research
"The Pitching Masterclass taught me how to present my metrics and look smart to investors. Saved us from making dumb mistakes!"
Became fully financed by business angels and exited to Ceconomy Group
"Taking the Masterclass gave us the confidence to raise a solid round."
Studydrive went on to raise $2.2 million after taking the course and exited to StepStone
"It was fantastic! Thank you!"
Gateway Excellence Startup Center at the University of Cologne uses the Pitching Masterclass to prep their alumni for public and investor pitches
"Pitching Masterclass opened our eyes, made us understand what we needed to be ready to pitch VCs yet, saving time and embarrassing rejections."
Distribuddy used the Masterclass to find out when and how to raise money from VCs
"The Pitching Masterclass is a cornerstone of our 'Creativity Bootcamp' program for over eight years, a testament to its unparalleled excellent quality. Both we as organizers and our participants love the exceptional high quality results it consistently delivers!"
Senior Director Strategy Campus
I’m Vidar Andersen and I don’t talk about myself in the third person. I have close to 30 years of personal experience with pitching for money and attention.
"[...] one of the most important people in the German startup scene."
From time to time I found tech startups to scratch my own itches, and in between I'm doing my part to educate founders and students how to build startups faster and better, drastically improving their chances of survival.
And because corporations, organisations, startup programs, and educational institutions keep asking me to help with their education, innovation, and digital development I also founded +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES to serve their needs.
I created the origninal "OG" in-person Pitching Masterclass in 2013 out of a need to help regional founders become better at convincing investors and compete internationally for funding from top tier venture capital - and it has been evolving ever since.
I know first hand that as a startup, you have a million problems - and not knowing how to get funded shouldn't be one of them. My Pitching Masterclass contains all the stuff I wish I would have known back when I was starting out. It would have saved me precious time, countless headaches and embarassments.
Over the last +10 years I've helped over 3.000 startups pitch investors successfully - as a co-founder, pitch trainer, and moderator (MC) of the monthly Rheinland Pitch - Germany's (maybe even Europe's) largest startup pitch event, and through my in-person Pitching Masterclasses booked and offered by Corporations, Startup Support Programs (incubators, accelerators, etc), Universities, and Events.
To date, I've helped over 10.000 people in-person with innovation and founding startups since 2007.
My next goal is helping +100.000 founders
I created this online Pitching Masterclass to spread the knowledge of how to pitch investors to as many startup founders around the world as possible.
On my entrepreneurial journeys so far, I've had the fortune to pitch some of the most famous and well-respected - and some infamous - startup investors and tech journalists out there and I've been invited to pitch publicly on stage around the world. It's been a roller coaster ride that has taken me from the frontpage of The New York Times, CNN and TechCrunch to being invited to Stanford by the father of the Lean Startup Movement, Steve Blank, to speak about my educational work in the local startup community and receive official training as a Lean Launchpad Educator, to helping other founders succeed faster worldwide.
Because one of the things I learned from my Silicon Valley mentors is the importance of helping others like you. So I'm sharing from my pitching experience to help you understand what investors are looking for, master your pitch and successfully raise that round - so you can move on to the more important things of building a great product and growing your business.
My entrepreneurial work has been featured and recognised around the world. E.g. my presentations on startups and pitching have been featured multiple times as LinkedIn SlideShare "Slide of the Day", Germany's largest business publication "Wirtschafts Woche" named me "one of the most important people in the German startup scene", and one of Spain's oldest and most prestigious business universities, Deusto Business School in Bilbao, honored me with a scholarship for my entrepreneurial work.
If you're a startup in or around Germany - you should also apply for the next round of the Rheinland Pitch (Germany's largest startup pitch event)!
I think you'll find that a lot of self-titled "pitch coaches" and "pitching experts" out there have never founded a startup nor pitched investors themselves. Would you actually take their advice?
That's not me. I've put my money where my mouth is all my life, inluding pitching my own startups around the world. Here I'm pithcing my startup on the main stage of LeWeb in Paris:
Some of the people I've pitched in person include Gary "Vee" Vaynerchuk (IYKYK, Investor), Don Dodge (Microsoft Ventures, Google Ventures), Steve Blank (father of the Lean Startup, Angel Investor), Robert Scoble (Tech Blogger Legend), Lori Greiner (Investor, Shark Tank), Yossi Vardi (Mensch, Legendary Israeli Investor), Mike Butcher (Mr. TechCrunch Europe), Zach Klein (Founder Vimeo, Investor), Ben Parr (Ex Mashable), Robin Wouters (TNW, Tech.eu), John Bradford (TechStars London), Daisuke Minamide (Investor, NTT DoCoMo, CyberAgent Ventures), Lars Hinrichs (Founder XING, Investor), Christian Thaler Wolsky (Investor, Wellington Partners, Paua Ventures), Christoph Janz (Mr. SaaS Metrics, Managing Partner Point Nine Capital), Daniel Waterhouse (Partner, Balderton), Kurt Müller (Partner, Target Partners), Philipp Möhring (SeedCamp, Angel List), Gilad Novik (Investor, Horizon Ventures) and many more.
Some of the places I've been invited to pitch my own startups on stage include South By Southwest (SxSW) in Austin TX, the Web Summit in London, Le Web in Paris, Tech Cocktail in Austin, C'n'B in Cologne, Pirate Summit Cologne, Campus Party Berlin and more.
I've also won several awards for my pitches (but that's more of a vanity theatre thing and doesn't really count).
Because of my previous experiences between 1997 and 2010 successfully pitching global corporations and GOs for millions in projects and contracts, I'm also from time to time hired to help with creating their decks and pitching high-stakes development projects - but that's probably not what you came here for.
If your experience is like mine, you probably have a million problems right now - and wondering about how to find investors and how to successfully pitch them shouldn't be one of them. I should know. I've been there too. That's why I made the Pitching Masterclass for others to go farther faster and avoid my mistakes.
Let me also clarify who this Startup Edition is not for: It's not for people looking to improve their sales pitches or learn how to pitch for projects; This Masterclass is only going to provide value to early-stage startups looking to raise a round of financing from startup investors - for pre-seed, seed, to perhaps even series A funding rounds.
Colorful visuals paired with coloful language: Who said education can't be entertaining?
The Pitching Masterclass consists all you need to know condensed down to under two hours of easy to follow videos plus a comprehensive companion slide deck for more details (and so you don't have to take notes).
Here's the table of contents of what it covers:
The Pitching Masterclass is for early-stage startup founders who wants to successfully raise money so they can get on with building their vision. Watch anywhere, pick up where you left off at any time, watch as many times you need, free updates forever, +370 slides included. Get smart, get funded.
For early-stage Startups.
Access for life - including free updates - to the Pitching Masterclass and the +370 companion slides for a single user. No recurring costs. Learn at your own pace, for as often and as long as you need.
*19% German VAT included
Online eLearning on demand for educational and support programs, a popular choice for large to medium sized companies, universities, accelerators, and incubators. Recurring yearly, cancel at any time, free updates in the subscription period.
With Vidar Andersen in-person, on-premise or online. One whole interactive day getting to pitch perfect: 20% theory, 80% practice & feedback. Great for events, startup support programs, universities, and corporate innovation programs. Also available as pitch competition MC.
**Discounts available for GOs & NGOs: inquire now
The bare basics, download the +370 slides as a PDF: Pitching Masterclass, Slides-Only
Maximum feedback on your pitch from other founders: Attend a monthly Pitch Review
Exclusive feedback and help in private: Book a private session with me