Today we had the opportunity to give a pitch to a mock CCTO judging panel. The pitch was at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) in Palo Alto. The mock panel was made up of a VC, an academic and a CCTO member. The pitch was to follow the same structure as the real pitch sessions next week, that is: 15 minute presentation using 10 slides followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

As planned, Nate gave the pitch (picture above). I recorded it on my video camera so he could review it later. He did a good job. The only real rough patch was when a couple slides came up in reverse order, but he smoothed over it fairly well. I think he took about 13 minutes. The Q&A session started out more as a critique of the presentation, which was useful as far as fine tuning the presentation, but didn’t really give us a feel for the Q&A process. It also lasted more like 15 minutes rather than 10. Overall the feedback was quite positive.

We have a couple days to refine the slides. The final version is due on September 30. Our final pitch is on October 3.