Notes for Gloc.al CEO Olya Naida from the Global Gate Accelerator for Startup pitch training session by Yulia Sedova ๐ฆ
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- Warming up the story as in the usual standup, adding jargon for emotional reinforcement
- Emotion stays, but we forget what we’re doing.
- Try to get rid of NDA and DNS layer (although how can you do this if our partner CloudFlare handles about 70% of traffic volume through DNS and this is our secret sauce, it’s Workers OSS in public)
- Simplify technical terms with the disclosure of numbers and technical terms
- When answering questions, abbreviate a pre-prepared answer
- Like for comments on slides that @olianayda doesn’t like but your humble servant @alexdolbun likes
- Create a story plan and story about the title aka Japanese term ๐ Glocal is thinking globally and acting locally with local identity
- The most embarrassing questions about {Company Name} – coming soon to Quora and to Gloc.al
- Slides need to be interactive in product style
- Craft slides to fit the story or speak without a presentation but with a pitch, answering questions and explaining the idea ๐ก
Whoโs Yulia Sedova?
She is the founder of the stand-up project ACUSTICA and a trainer in public speaking.
Yulia is a stand-up comedian and TED-style public speaking coach for entrepreneurs. She also directs documentary projects and helps speakers find their “own voice” on a course of the same name.