DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

University of Toronto

CSC454/2527S: The Business of Software

January-April 2003

Assignment G: Final Oral Presentation

Handed Out: 4 March 2003

Due In: 7 April 2003, 6 p.m- 9p.m.

Marks: 7%

The two individuals from each team who have not made interim presentations will collaborate on a final oral presentation (eight minutes total per team) presenting the most salient aspects of your business plan.

Each presentation should be in two parts:

• A brief "elevator test" statement describing your business in 2-4 sentences. Imagine you have just entered an elevator with a venture capitalist and she asks you to tell her about the business. If you succeed in conveying a compelling concept before the elevator reaches its destination, she will look at your plan. If you do not, she will not.

• A presentation of the most salient points in your business plan. Note that this cannot be done by taking most of the information in the plan and tryingtospeakitasquicklyasyoucan. You must be selective, focusing on the key idea, the problem it solves, the size and characteristics of the market represented by the problem, what’s special about your solution and how it fits into the competitive landscape, your business strategy and value proposition, the strength of the management team, and the financial return to the investors (if any are needed). Note that some of this material will be covered by the first speaker, and some by the second speaker.

• You both will then field two to three questions from the audience in response to your presentation. Please remember that the presentation (before the questions) will be stopped at 8 minutes. You should rehearse several times to make sure that speaker #1 does not talk for 6 minutes leaving almost no time for speaker #2 !

3 or 4 groups in each tutorial will present on April 7 to your tutorial section beginning at 6 p.m. in your usual tutorial room.

Six groups from the entire class (i.e., 1 or 2 from each section) will present on April 7 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in BA1180. An overhead projector and computer data display projection will be available. The list of these groups will be announced by your individual TAs.

Presentations in the latter forum will be heard by a panel of industry experts. This will include a venture capitalist.

Note: Please note that the mark for the Interim Oral Presentation also was 7%.