AppSheet Scholar – Venture Pitch

Review – Hey Robert, I really enjoyed your project. Let me share with you a few of the strengths I saw throughout your presentation. Right away in your elevator pitch you drew upon initial success of App Sheet. Its is always good to use past success to add to your credibility. As an investor who wants to make money, your elevator pitch peaked my interest with the mention of a guaranteed return on investment. When your venture pitch started I liked having an outline of what you were going to present, really sets up expectations and an understanding up front. I think your greatest strength through was a solid description of the financial details of your project. Reviewing App Sheet’s initial financial details and drawing out of that the current educational income was great. Again, the details about how App Sheet scholar will make money and the details about how the guaranteed return with profit sharing will work was persuading to an investor. Where I have questions is in what App Sheet Scholar really is? I am not sure if you really identified clearly what it is. Is it a program to easily make Apps for devices or is an LMS? Or a hybrid between the two ideas? If it is a program to make apps, why do you need to tack an LMS on top of that. Seems complicated and to be honest unnecessary. Connected to this confusion my question is who are your competitors? If its LMS, the competition is huge. I think tightening up your presentation with more details about what App Sheet Scholar is and does will make it an easy sell. Good work. Brian.

Hi Robert. I found your presentations to be quite engaging. In particular I appreciated your commitment to role-playing and taking on the persona of an entrepreneur/intrapreneur in both your elevator and venture pitches. The fact that your venture pitch appeared to be more of a live presentation (animation not withstanding) of your idea rather than a packaged presentation or description, showed an understanding of this assignment that may have escaped me. Further, your focus on the venture element, whether the investment numbers or the links to already successful parent ventures, added to the authenticity of the pitch experience. The financial side is clearly something you have spent time considering in depth. An area that I would have liked more detail on is why AppSheet Scholar is a disrupter in the LMS field. While I understood the argument that there is still plenty of space to grow in the LMS market with many schools not yet adopting them, I was still a bit fuzzy about how AppSheet Scholar is different. Is its capacity to create apps able to address problems that no other LMS can? What exactly are these problems, or are the apps simply another means to deliver content and illustrate learning, albeit in a custom manner? Perhaps a couple more sentences briefly, yet clearly outlining a scenario of where and how AppSheet Scholar could be used would fully tip investors over the edge. Thanks for a thought-provoking presentation! Jon Nilson

Hi Robert, I enjoyed your elevator pitch and venture pitch. I found your character to be captivating with hand gestures and happy dance animations. I liked that you outlined the solution, growth, market share, and made good use of charts and graphs. Also liked that you identified existing market in the AppSheet space as this lends significant credibility to the newly planned venture AppScholar. You sparked my interest in the space but was hoping to get insights into the competitive landscape and differentiators, also more detail on use of proceeds. As an investor, I'd be interested in learning more about this opportunity, and would ask for a tighter description of the problem being solved, and, in general, less font, and more high-level numbers/charts and bullets. Thanks for your venture story on AppSheet.