Presenting your business using the business model canvas
We're starting to see canvases used in presentations on a regular basis, and just like any other visual tool, it can be used well or poorly. I'd love to present a few tips and tricks I've picked up (for 5 minutes) then have a few founders give it a try (1 minute each!) and have a few investors in the room give quick feedback on how to improve our techniques. We'd probably have room for 3-5 pitches, with feedback, so we can improve our techniques together as we go.
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AdminSalim Virani (Admin, Leancamp) commented
Hey John - if we have some investors joining us, I'd love to learn all of our pet peevs about poor presentations using the canvas. And it would be fun to have a few founders try 1-minute presentations to get critiqued after that.
What does everyone think?
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John O'Rourke
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Sounds great, so popular in fact that it featured on my college course this year. I agree that it can be misused, I think that it needs to be taken as an alternative to a business plan, rather than a replacement. The issue here is that business plans are mostly static and the canvas is fluid and iterative.
I think the investor input will be important to show how the canvas adds value to the pitch from an investment perspective.
John