Cosi165a Final Presentations
How to prepare and what is expected

Showcase Day Presentations

  • The showcase will be held in a slightly larger classroom (not yet assigned)
  • The audience will be your classmates and anyone else you want to invite
  • You should wear “business casual”, no ties or dresses required.
  • Whatever you feel comfortable with.
  • There will be a panel of Judges to listen and comment on the presentations
  • I will determine the order at the last minute
  • The Judges will give their feedback and rank the products
  • But, your grade will be based on much more than that.
  • Given the time you should probably not have more than 10 slides
  • Below are a long list of possible topics to give you inspiration.
  • You can’t use them all! Really! Don’t try. It’s just to give you ideas.
Idas for slides (in alphabetical order)
  • Customer story or scenario
  • Data collected
  • Demo of your product or service, including a scenario or story
  • Elevator pitch?
  • How does our product or service make the pain go away?
  • Hypotheses?
  • If we had more time?
  • Job the product is doing for the customer? How did the customer do it before? How will they do it now?
  • Market segment, is it really a segment? Do people here talk to each other? Do they have similar requirements? Can I reach them the same way?
  • Mockups and/or prototypes
  • MVPs tried? Especially good if
  • One or two sided market? If two sided,how do you expect to reach both of them? In what order?
  • Pivots undertaken. This is interesting especially if it demonstrates that you were disciplined in following where the research led you and didn’t stick to a plan that didn’t work.
  • Problem being solved, pain being relieved? In what way is it crucial for the customer? How do we know?
  • What is the ONE THING? Demonstrate that you chose one specific problem to solve and really solved it. Show focus.
  • What is the product or service? You would be surprised how often it happens that at the end of the presentation the audience looks at each other and say: “I don’t understand what the product is!” Keep it simple and clear.
  • Who is on the team? Photos? Names? Email Addresses?