Ali Parandeh Zandpour

Event Type: TEDx - half day event Location: Andalucia Lab Marbella, Costa del Sol Date: 9 June 2023 As one of the co-organizers of TEDx Marbella, I worked along side my group to setup a the legal entity to deal with the accounts, find speakers through my network. Help with the auditioning and finally the training of the speakers. Additionally I worked in the event promotion and many of the background admin work plus event organization.

Event Type: Organization and presentation of a startup pitching event for a Swedish VC Location: Marbella, The Pool Marbella Date: 30 Marc 2023 Description: Scouting, selection and presentation of three startups in Costa del Sol for the Swedich VC firm, Asenjor. This was a half day event fully organized by me for the Swedish VC firm Asenjor. In this event, I first provided the VC firm with an overview of the Startup scene on the Costa del Sol and then presented three promising startups in the area. The presentation was followed by a lunch and afternoon networking.

Event Type: Virtual Presentation - Online Location: Startup Expo 2022 Date: 30-31 July 2022 Description: Most entpreneur and startup pitches are around the product. In fact as a serial entpreneur I admit, I am in love with my product. However if you are pitching to investors and looking for fund raising, you need to start speaking "The Investors' Language". In this presentation, I address the most important points that an entrepreneur needs to provide to investors before talking about the big picture. Only once you have done that should you speak about the potential which is TAM, SAM, SOM. Far too often the pitch misses the basic information and jumps directly into the BIG PICTURE with the BIG INVESTMENT SUM they are looking for. RESULT: If the investor can't workout what they can earn from this investment, you can't get them interested in your project.