MGT5A5 Managing New Ventures
Group Assignment – Presenting your social venture ideas
Presenting venture ideas well are critical to the success of securing funding for launching
businesses. Working in self-selected groups from the same seminar sessions of between
four to five students, cultivate a social venture idea, research, prepare and deliver a short
presentation to potential investors (using the dragon’s den format) to make a case for their
investment of funds into a social venture of your choice. 4 assessors with venture vetting
experience will be used to evaluate the presentations.
Each presentation can last up to 12 minutes and must involve all members of the group.
After the group, has presented, 5 minutes may be used for investors’ questions.
Presentations may be made with or without audio and electronic visual aids. Presentations
may be made with or without mock up products or produces.
Dress code – formal business attire unless venture requires otherwise!
Presentations will take place during the Lecture sessions on the week beginning 4th
December 2017 (precise timings will be confirmed later).
A Group Mark Distribution and Dynamics Form must be completed and submitted with a
copy of the presentation slides by the team prior to the start of the presentation. You will
be assessed entirely on your group’s presentation. Groups may choose to distribute a
presentation handout (maximum 4 pages) to the audience if they wish.
Each group must state the amount of investment required and the percentage of equity
they are prepared to offer in exchange.
Marking Criteria
30% Presentation Style Introducing and closing of presentation
Manner of distributing handouts, product or produce
Eye contact
Handover and Teamwork integration
Handling of questions
Dealing with things that go wrong
Time keeping
Conviction of team and audience
70% Strength of Venture
Case
Overview of social venture idea
Scope of presentation
Evidence of market research
Appropriate use of information data
Industrial, Market, Environmental analysis
Theoretical under-pinning / grounding
Appropriate selection of theoretical aspects
Level of preparation
Risk and benefit analysis
Quality and effectiveness of presentation
MGT5A5/Oct2017
Examples
Jane Chen: Be Courageous Because You Will Fail
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/jane-chen-be-courageous-because-you-will-fail
10 Innovative Social Enterprises that are Improving the World
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/10-innovative-social-enterprises-that-are-improvingthe-world.html
14 social enterprises with cool, world-changing ideas
https://yourstory.com/2013/10/social-enterprises-cool-worldchanging-ideas/
15 Best Social Enterprise Business Ideas for 2017
https://bestsmallventure.com/social-enterprise-business-ideas/
6 Social Impact Business Ideas That Could Change The World From The Under 30 Summit
EMEA
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:y5vaB0bARTMJ:https://www.for
bes.com/sites/nataliesportelli/2017/04/05/6-social-impact-business-ideas-that-couldchange-the-world-from-the-under-30-summitemea/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari
30 under 30 – Social Entrepreneurs by Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30_social.html
