# Angel Investor Pitch Brainstorming

###### tags: `Brainstorming` `Revenue`

> Resources
> - [Current Pitch](https://hackmd.io/1mf8ZB24QVWgpB4GDFr86w)
> - [Why You Should Write Out Your Pitch Narrative Before Creating a Deck](https://underscore.vc/startupsecrets/pitch-narrative-template/)
> - [How to Design a Go-to-Market Strategy](https://underscore.vc/startupsecrets/go-to-market-strategy/)

## Personas

### Eduardo The Angel

Eduardo is an angel investor who, like others, has invested in open source companies like Nuxt and N8N.

He wants the software ecosystem to flourish, which is why he invests into OSS.

If he sees a solid pitch from a company trying to make strides in the open source software education space, he will likely invest to strengthen that effort.

Eduardo is not a beginner at technology or investing, so he needs to see detailed explanations of the claims that companies make in their pitches.

## Flow

- I'd like to present the work my organization has been doing over the past 16 months for a future where more people worldwide can create successful software companies
- This also impacts the bottom line for investors like you because the vast majority of university programs don't prepare graduates to create or scale the innovative startups you want to fund
- That is why we are raising 50k+ dollars in non-equity-dilutive funding so we can continue making an impact in software education
- From now until the end of the year, angel investors and VC firms who fund us will be featured forever as **Founding Partners** on our websites and project repositories.
- If we allow the current status quo of software education to persist, we deny more young people worldwide the chance at a more equal starting line in life

## Content Brainstorming

- There are major problems in todays software education system
- University programs don’t stay updated with or practice with the latest industry tech.
- Internships and bootcamps fill in the gaps but many students still fall behind their potential.
- It is difficult to change established systems because of bureaucracy and perpetual demand for degrees.
- We need a software company that provides an authentic, up-to-date, and scalable experience of how software teams create and sustain products.
- Authentic Software Education...But How?
- Students work on real projects with real impact
- Students get mentorship and collaborative work sessions
- Students get to practice in a team environment with agile systems
- Up-To-Date Software Education... But How?
- Infrastructure to crowdsource the latest software R&D from volunteers
- Curriculums are up-to-date with real industry products
- Products are refactored to follow best practices from industry and academia
- Scalable Software Education... But How?
- Careful candidate screening so the right students get the attention they deserve
- Smaller and mentorship oriented sessions
- Educators are sourced from a diligently trained alumni network
- The Key Insight: In order to teach software development in an authentic, up-to-date, and scalable way...You have to create software in an authentic, up-to-date, and scalable way
- Introducing Grey Software: An organization on a mission to democratize software education by building open products with students worldwide and publishing what we learn along the way!
- Open Software: We create open source software that people can trust, love and learn from.
- Open Education: We make openly accessible educational content for learners around the world
- Open Collaboration: We allow students worldwide to practice their craft by collaborating remotely with open source developers
- Our strategy for credibility and sustainable revenue
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- Open Software Strategy
- We incubate product ideas from team members, students, and external OSS developers
- We publish the best projects as freemium products on our App Collection
- We generate revenue through subscriptions by offering premium app features to monthly sponsors
- Open Education Strategy
- Create, curate, and publish up-to-date educational content on our websites
- Crowd source the latest information by making it simple for professionals and academics to contribute
- Empower our team members and the general public to grow as software developers
- Open Collaboration Strategy
- Develop on open source platforms to enable students worldwide to practice by collaborating remotely with us
- Partner with universities to run programs where students get course credit for collaborating on open source projects
- Generate revenue by offering sponsorship packages to organizations that want to feature their brand on our websites and project repositories.
- Our Impact
- Over $2700 CAD raised from public sponsorships
- Over $4200 CAD raised from Angel Investor Donations
- Impact: Open Software
- Created and published Focused Browsing, a competing productivity web extension that blocks distracting websites
- Created a framework to build mark-down based website currently powering our ecosystem websites
- Impact: Open Education
- Created a network of robust, installable, offline-capable web apps
- Over 5800 unique visits and 15736 page views across our ecosystem websites in the past year
- Impact: Open Collaboration
- 4000+ contributions across Github and Gitlab by 25+ contributors
- 5 students from our apprenticeship program with UET Mardan returned to work for paid contracts
- Your Investment will help us
- Buy runway to continue creating, teaching and paving a road towards sustainability
- Select creative and entrepreneurial minds and future software leaders
- Raise the global tide of software education helping the software startups of the future
- As a founding investor, you get lifetime recognition across our websites and project repositories, unless you prefer a private investment.
- Bronze: 1000$ - 9000$
- Silver: 10,000$ - 24,000$
- Gold: 25,000$ - 49,000$
- Platinum: 50,000$ - and above
- Our Team
- Arsala Bangash: 25, Founder and President, passionate about serving humanity through technology, Ex-Google Intern
- Raj Paul: 24, Founding team member, Digital Design lead, passionate about Software design, Branding, Graphics Design and entrepreneurship