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A guide for mentees: Pitch Rehearsal for Mentees

What Pitch Rehearsal is, how to fill it in and what happens next.

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What it is

Your pitch, slide by slide, timed

You plan each slide with a time, then rehearse out loud against the clock.

1 / 6 Problem Cafés throw away 12% of their food. 0:30 StopNext slide

RehearsePlanned length: 2:30

	Plan	Run 1	Run 2
Problem	0:30	0:41	0:32
Solution	0:30	0:35	0:28
Customer and market	0:20	0:22	0:19
Traction	0:30	0:44	0:31
Team	0:20	0:15	0:21
The ask	0:20	0:18	0:17
Total	2:30	2:55	2:28

Why it helps

Practice shows what runs long

Investors followed up more with founders trained to pitch (Clingingsmith and Shane, 2018).

One point per slide what should they remember?
Every run kept see what changed
Your own rating nobody grades it

Filling it in

Twenty minutes, in three steps

Plan your slides, rehearse with the timer, then rate the run.

List your slides

Give each one main point and a number of seconds.

Rehearse out loud

Press next as you move on; every run is kept.

Rate it, note a question

Score five points from 1 to 5, then write the hardest question.

List your slides

Give each one main point and a number of seconds.

1 / 6 Problem Cafés throw away 12% of their food. 0:30 StopNext slide

RehearsePlanned length: 2:30

	Plan	Run 1	Run 2
Problem	0:30	0:41	0:32
Solution	0:30	0:35	0:28
Customer and market	0:20	0:22	0:19
Traction	0:30	0:44	0:31
Team	0:20	0:15	0:21
The ask	0:20	0:18	0:17
Total	2:30	2:55	2:28

Rehearse out loud

Press next as you move on; every run is kept.

1 / 6 Problem Cafés throw away 12% of their food. 0:30 StopNext slide

RehearsePlanned length: 2:30

	Plan	Run 1	Run 2
Problem	0:30	0:41	0:32
Solution	0:30	0:35	0:28
Customer and market	0:20	0:22	0:19
Traction	0:30	0:44	0:31
Team	0:20	0:15	0:21
The ask	0:20	0:18	0:17
Total	2:30	2:55	2:28

Rate it, note a question

Score five points from 1 to 5, then write the hardest question.

Pitch RehearsalSaved

Step 1 of 2

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Every step is filled in. Send answers

1List your slides

1 / 6 Problem Cafés throw away 12% of their food. 0:30 StopNext slide

RehearsePlanned length: 2:30

	Plan	Run 1	Run 2
Problem	0:30	0:41	0:32
Solution	0:30	0:35	0:28
Customer and market	0:20	0:22	0:19
Traction	0:30	0:44	0:31
Team	0:20	0:15	0:21
The ask	0:20	0:18	0:17
Total	2:30	2:55	2:28

2Rehearse out loud

1 / 6 Problem Cafés throw away 12% of their food. 0:30 StopNext slide

RehearsePlanned length: 2:30

	Plan	Run 1	Run 2
Problem	0:30	0:41	0:32
Solution	0:30	0:35	0:28
Customer and market	0:20	0:22	0:19
Traction	0:30	0:44	0:31
Team	0:20	0:15	0:21
The ask	0:20	0:18	0:17
Total	2:30	2:55	2:28

3Rate it, note a question

Pitch RehearsalSaved

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Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Tools to fill in (1)

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Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Pitch RehearsalSaved

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Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

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Pitch RehearsalFrom Rachel Bennett To do See all

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What happens next

You talk it through together

Your mentor reads your runs, comments and agrees next steps with you.

Only you two program admins do not see the answers
Comments on any part of it
Next steps who does what, by when
Still editable change answers after sending

Run it twice before you meet

Bring the table of runs and the question you fear most.

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