Create The Perfect Pitch Deck to WOW Investors!
Welcome to PitchQuest® by PitchVest®
PitchQuest® is an exciting online incubator program that takes founders on a strategic journey from an early-stage idea to a viable commercial venture that’s ready to pitch for investment.
Follow a structured, self-paced program of learning that provides focus on the core pillars of business planning, customer discovery and marketing planning, competitive advantage, financial projections, legal protection and strategic articulation of the problem, solution and opportunity to transform your idea into a viable commercial solution for investors.
Complete this program and you'll have a pitch presentation ready to go!
3 Pitch Decks in 1
The PitchQuest® program takes you through the process of creating and writing a flexible pitch deck, which easily adapts to the three most common types:
- A detailed presentation, which can be sent unaccompanied to prospective investors
- A presentation suited to verbal face-to-face pitches
- A presentation suited to time-based competitions
What's Included with PitchQuest?
A Structured Program
Everyone who joins PitchQuest® will get access to our structured program that guides you week-by-week and step-by-step through the strategic thinking process that will help you turn your early-stage idea into a viable commercial solution.
Business & Marketing Planning
You will receive training on the essential principles of a business and marketing plan for your startup including guidance and insights into investors’ expectations of your pitch, so that you have the best chance to secure investment.
Worksheets & Templates
- Frameworks and tools to help you with each mission.
- Pitch deck outlines for the most common types of pitches.
- Pre-designed PowerPoint templates to download and edit with your content.
Create a professional pitch deck for less
PitchQuest® assists early stage startups to create a strategic and professional pitch deck that makes every slide count when pitching to investors.
Who Is PitchQuest For?
Founders
Startups founders who are seeking investment and want to increase their chances of attracting investors with a professional business plan and pitch deck.
Business Owners
Business owners who want investment to take their existing business to the next stage of growth, or want to take a fresh look at their business model or progress.
Ex. Corporate Employees
People who have been working for a large or corporate business who are now keen to start their own small business, and want to get the fundamentals right.
Students
Ambitious students who want to start a serious business directly after finishing university, and want to get planning now, or pitch for investment before graduating.
A Powerful Program
"The program is really good and easy to understand whilst also challenging my thinking. I believe this is such a powerful program that I would recommend any startup to do PitchQuest® before joining an incubator."
— Sandra P.
Course Curriculum
LEVEL 1
Be Prepared
In this first level, we'll introduce you to our pitch deck philosophy; you’ll set your investment objectives and build a pitch plan. You'll articulate your idea into an 'elevator pitch'; and we’ll cover the fundamentals of your business plan to ensure you have the upfront thinking underway.
LEVEL 2
Get to Know Your Customer
Let’s get to know your customer better than they know themselves! Learn how to approach customer research and segmentation and build your customer personas. At the end of this level, you’ll create the first slide of your pitch deck – representing your target audience and their pain points.
LEVEL 3
Articulate the Problem
Ideas are great, and they become even better when they’re the solution to a BIG problem, especially if no one else has tried to fix it yet. You’ll discover how to identify and articulate the core problem you solve. By the end of this level, you’ll have articulated the problem clearly on one slide.
LEVEL 4
Define the Opportunity
We’ll delve into your market research and define the true opportunity you are chasing. Investors will get excited about a qualified and quantified opportunity that demonstrates growth and scale. At the end of this level, you’ll pare down your research to create your market opportunity slide.
LEVEL 5
Sell the Solution
You’ll consider how to best showcase your solution. You'll separate what you are providing from why it’s important to your target customers. You’ll identify the core end benefits your customers will enjoy and know how to present your tech or service onto 2-3 slides.
LEVEL 6
Commercialise it!
With the opportunity, problem and solution clarified, it's time to make some money! We’ll work on articulating your business model and defining your distribution channels. All this pared down into one key slide!
LEVEL 7
Be a Legal Eagle!
We all know legal ‘stuff’ can be a bit dry and a bit complicated, unless you’re a lawyer, of course! In this short level, you’ll become aware of the legal considerations you need to have in relation to your pitch deck and you’ll develop two key slides that ensure these considerations are covered.
LEVEL 8
Demonstrate Traction
This is the key slide all investors want to see. Your idea is unique, your problem is qualified, your opportunity is big. Now you need to show investors that you can turn your idea into a viable business. We’ll give you all the knowledge and insights to demonstrate proof of concept.
LEVEL 9
Standout from the Crowd
Get to know your competition and develop a market positioning that stands you out from the crowd. Identify your advantages and show investors you bring a uniqueness to future-proof your concept. Bring in the best team and advisors and show them off on their very own slide!
LEVEL 10
Make it Famous!
Acquiring and retaining customers is key to success. You’ll explore your marketing objectives, strategies and tactics and determine how best to acquire and retain your prospective customers.
LEVEL 11
Do the Maths!
What will it cost to set up and run your business and how much will you make over what time period? Important questions that must be answered before you embark on writing your pitch. We’ll send you in the right direction to gather the numbers you need to get investors interested!
LEVEL 12
Make your Pitch!
Every pitch should contain the actual pitch! What do you want from investors and what will they receive in return? In this level, we’ll take a look at 4 components; the ask, the offer, the exit and the use of funds. You’ll learn how to articulate these into your pitch deck.
LEVEL 13
Top & Tail it!
Like any good story, a pitch deck has a beginning, a middle and an end. In this level, we’ll focus on creating a compelling cover slide and teach you how to finish with a strong call to action!
LEVEL 14
Ready, Set, Pitch!
In the final level, we’ll help you review your pitch, rehearse and get ready to pitch to a room of investors. You’ll also receive our Pitch UX: a guide to creating a great user experience for your prospective investors!
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1Level 1 - Be Prepared
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2Level 2 - Get to know your customer
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3Level 3 - Articulate the problem
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4Level 4 - Define the opportunity
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5Level 5 - Sell The Solution
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6Level 6 - Commercialise It!
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7Level 7 - Be a Legal Eagle!
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8Level 8 - Demonstrate Traction
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9Level 9 - Standout from the Crowd
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10Level 10 - Make It Famous!
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11Level 11 - Do the Maths!
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12Level 12 - Make Your Pitch!
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13Level 13 - Top & Tail It!
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14Level 14 - Ready, Set, Pitch!
About PitchQuest's Creator
Stevie V Brown is the creator of PitchQuest®. Stevie is a Marketing and Pitch Specialist who has coached hundreds of startup founders and business owners on how to pitch their offer most effectively. Before creating PitchQuest, Stevie ran a successful pitch consulting business - PitchVest, which has now morphed into a free resource platform for startups.
Experienced Entrepreneur
Stevie brings 25 years of pitching experience from the advertising industry combined with smart business acumen, strategic brainpower, and experience in understanding investors’ expectations. As well as PitchVest, Stevie went through the process of securing funding as co-founder of a food tech startup. Stevie has started all her businesses from scratch and has been an entrepreneur for over 10 years.
How PitchQuest Works
Choose your pricing plan, either the monthly subscription or lifetime access to sign up for PitchQuest and get started building your pitch straight away with levels 1 and 2.
Work through the learning, tasks and worksheets at your own pace to develop your strategy and gain insight on what investors are looking for from your pitch.
Download and edit the pre-designed, PowerPoint templates and build your pitch as you progress through each level. Keep and edit the templates for life!
Choose a Pricing Plan
Choose a pricing plan to get started today. For more information, please read our FAQs.
FAQs
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PitchQuest® is an online education program that provides startup founders with a system of strategic thinking, including the tools and templates required to create a pitch deck. The system is built from the Creator's own IP based on their process of creating a pitch deck.
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Throughout the PitchQuest® program, you’ll be trained on how to develop your pitch using the tools, frameworks and pre-designed templates provided; with each mission guiding your thinking as you develop your content.
Unlike other online training programs, PitchQuest® is interactive and utilises gamification and neuro-linguistic programming techniques to offer a platform of learning that is not only easy to use, but fun! That's why we call it a Quest!
You'll complete PitchQuest® feeling confident about pitching to investors.
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If you’re an early-stage startup and would like help to turn your idea into a viable commercial solution and a pitch presentation for the purposes of obtaining investment; then PitchQuest® is for you!
PitchQuest® is for you if…
- You're an early stage startup and want to turn your idea into a viable commercial solution
- You want to create a pitch presentation for the purposes of obtaining investment
- Your business idea has a global vision
- You intend to scale your startup business and create a global company with employees
- You are creating a physical product, delivering a service through technology, or creating a new online community such as; a marketplace or content aggregator
- Your idea solves a sizeable problem in the world and you know there is a demand for your solution
- The market you will operate in is emerging or growing year-on-year
- You are open and committed to learning and you recognise that you don’t know everything (yet!)
- You want your startup to standout above the other startups you’ll be pitching against
- You are ready and willing to put the work into the course and you are committed to creating a winning pitch deck
PitchQuest® is NOT for you if…
- You’re setting up a drop shipping or reseller ecommerce business
- You are signed up with an MLM company
- You are in financial difficulty and looking for ways to get ‘fast cash’
- You are interested in a ‘get rich quick’ scheme
- You’re not open to learning or putting the work in to create a solid business plan and pitch
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Everyone who joins PitchQuest® will get:
- A structured program categorised by missions guiding you through the strategic thinking to turn your early-stage idea into a viable commercial solution
- The essential principles of a business and marketing plan for your startup
- Guidance and insights into investors’ expectations of your pitch
- Frameworks and tools to help you with each mission
- Pitch deck outlines for the most common types of pitches
- Pre-designed PowerPoint templates to download and edit with your content
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You can join right now, just click the 'get started' button to purchase the course and start working on your pitch today!
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PitchQuest® is an online self-paced program allowing you to determine your own start date, progress and goals.
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The course is dripfed 2 levels at a time, every 7 days from enrolment. As such, you will need to commit a min. of 7 weeks to this program.
With commitment, it's possible to complete the program and your pitch within 7 weeks. However, with busy lives and limited time, most students spend between 3-6 months working through the program.
Whilst the output of this program is a pitch deck, the content that goes into your pitch deck is built by working through the stages of building a business plan, which provides a critical foundation to set your business up for success.
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PitchQuest® is a unique program that blends learning and advice with in-built advice from PitchQuest's Creator who is an experienced Pitch Specialist.
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Once enrolled, you will see 2 levels released every 7 days to ensure a smooth learning program that avoids overwhelm. Some of the levels include missions that take you away from your desk, for example, to work on financial modelling with an Accountant. As such, the course is structured to give you time to work through each of the stages. Like most founders or anyone starting a new business, you likely have a day job, or other commitments leaving you limited time each week to work on this course. The course timing takes this into account.
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With the monthly subscription, you will need to subscribe for at least 4 months, as this is the minimum timeframe within which all of the course levels are released. Therefore, the minimum payment to access the entire course is $48.00.
If creating your startup plan and pitch deck is going to be your main focus and you are committed to completing the program within 4 months, then the monthly subscription is recommended as it will be more cost effective.
However, if you are likely to need time inbetween for other commitments, it is recommended to purchase "Lifetime Access". This will be more cost effective for you in the long-run as it allows you to access the course in your own timeframe, forever.
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It's true that there are lots of free pitch deck powerpoint templates on the internet, but there's a couple of problems. Firstly, they are generally badly designed and don't often have all the slide types that a standard pitch deck requires.
Secondly, they are just powerpoint templates. They don't help you come up with the content to put on your slides, or tell you how to develop the upfront thinking in order to write your pitch deck. For example, how can you put a slide together showing a proof of your concept, such as; "83% surveyed said they would buy our product once it launches", if you haven't gone out to the market, met with your ideal target customer and done some research with them? If you know how to do that, go for it! If you're not sure, PitchQuest® is for you!
PitchQuest® guides you through this thinking so you can do the work that comes before you sit down to create the pitch deck itself. And because we really want you to succeed, we also give you pre-designed, editable templates with instructions for how to create the slides.
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We do not offer investment and we do not provide introductions or referrals to investors (including venture capitalists, banks, private investors or financial institutions).
We cannot and do not offer direct financial advice, nor are we responsible for any financial decisions you make. As always, it is your sole responsibility to discuss the legality or financial soundness of any decision you make with an independent and qualified professional before making such a decision.
We are not offering financial support, funding, or a “get rich quick” scheme.
For free ideas on how to find and secure funding, check out PitchVest.
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A PitchQuest® user who follows the complete education course module-by-module, develops the thinking as instructed and creates a thoroughly concepted pitch deck will give themselves a great chance of securing investment.
However, we make no warranty or guarantee of any kind that by using our products and services you will experience any specific level of earnings or that you will secure investment for your startup.
There are many independent factors that determine whether a startup business succeeds in securing investment and in growing as a successful business, all of which vary from person to person and are outside of our control.
By using our products and services you acknowledge that you are solely responsible for creating your own results. Our definition of “results” in this context is completion of the PitchQuest® program and the creation of a finished pitch deck.
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