Guidance for Presentations to the Minority Angel Investors' Network

Slide Presentation Guide

Please read carefully before preparing your presentation.

Your 10-minute presentation and 15-minute question and answer session is an opportunity to convince a group of experienced and sophisticated investors that:

• A sufficiently large market need and demand exists for your product or service to allow your business to reach profitability and positive cash flow.
• You have a logical and feasible plan for reaching that market.
• Your management team has the skills to execute your marketing plan.
• Your margins are sufficiently large to support your marketing plan and you have access to the necessary financial resources for implementation.
• You have intellectual property protection or other barriers to entry that will protect you from competition.

Note: To be considered for a Ben Franklin Technology Partners' investment, in addition to the above, your business should be located in 5 counties in and around Philadelphia and your firm should be able to generate employment in Pennsylvania.

The above list is not all-inclusive, but it does highlight key issues on which the Minority Angel Investor Network investors' will focus.

As further guidance, we have prepared the following list of suggested slides to use in your presentation. Remember that your presentation is limited to 10 minutes only with 15 minutes for questions and answers. At 1.5 to 2.0 minutes per slide, your presentation should average between 5 to 7 slides. Please note that we have used the same hypothetical example throughout the sample slides. We've tried to make this example as realistic as possible, however it may not represent the actual market.

Finally, we strongly encourage you to practice your presentation several times in advance with a third party recording the time spent on each slide and the overall presentation length. This will help you refine the presentation and spend the most time on the most critical points.

Please call us with any questions you may have as you prepare your presentation.

Good luck!