Session 4:
Presenting Your Venture;
Financial Projections
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
6:00pm to 9:00pm Eastern Time  Room: 10-250

Part 1: Presenting Your Venture

Presenting Your Idea: Entrepreneurs are always "selling" their ideas to potential employees, customers, partners and investors.   How do you position and present your ideas in the best light? Part of this class will be an interactive session with students and others who are in the process of developing a New Venture.

• The 10-20-30 Rule for Presentations. Guy Kawasaki Video or Blog.
• PechaKucha, a presentation style imported from Japan that emphasizes speed and graphics. Speakers display 20 slides and spend 20 seconds on each. See, A PechaKucha about PechaKucha.

Author, Start-up advisor; Serial Healthcare Industry Entrepreneur Bob has started four companies and served as CEO of a company that's publicly traded on the Hong Kong exchange.  His book The Start-Up Starter Kit: How to Avoid Failing in the Crucial First Two Years is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Video of Presentation:
Presentation Slides:	Presenting Your Venture

Part 2: Financial Projections

Armed with an understanding of the market for your product or service how do you figure out what financial resources you will need to bring a it to that market?   This portion of the program will introduce some financial projection techniques based on actual business experience.

• Chapter 10, "Figuring Out Financials" and Chapter 11, "Forecasting and Budgeting" from Tiffany, Paul and Peterson, Steven, Business Plans for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide.   Students Registered For Credit See, Course Reader for excerpts.
• Download a copy of the Financial Template shown in the lecture.
• Download a copy of the Equity Distribution and Dilution spreadsheet shown in the lecture.

Entrepreneur, Senior Executive and Senior Advisor for technology-based ventures Steve has been senior executive in venture-backed software and semiconductor companies, working in strategic marketing roles to place breakthrough semiconductor, MEMS, Nanotechnology and software innovations into the right early market segments. LinkedIn Page

Video of Presentation:
Presentation Slides:	Financial Projections