30 Questions Angel Investors Will Ask You | Bplans

Ideally, your main pitch should answer these core questions:

This first list of questions are questions you should answer with
your main pitch. If they ask you any of these, then you might be moving
too slowly, you might have had an awkward flow, or you might just
embrace the spontaneous interest and change the flow accordingly. You
should always plan to answer all of these questions with your pitch
deck.

1. What problem (or want) are you solving?
2. What kinds of people, groups, or organizations have that problem?
   How many are there, where are they, what do they do about it now?
3. How are you different?
4. Who will you compete with? How are they different?
5. How will you make money?
6. How will you make money for your investors?
7. How fast can you grow your business? Can you scale up volume without proportional scaling up headcount?
8. What’s proprietary? What are you going to do to defend that?
9. What traction have you made?
10. What milestones have you met?
11. How are you going to get the word out?
12. How are you going to close sales?
13. How are you going to get started?
14. How are you going to spend investors’ money?
15. What makes your team suited for this business?

30 Questions Angel Investors Will Ask You | Bplans