LVMH
La Maison
des Startups
Season 12
Prepare for October 6 at Station F
Five minutes to start a conversation.
Prepare to introduce your company to the Advisory Board and leaders across LVMH and the Maisons at Station F.
Come ready to present.
Hello to the new cohort of La Maison des Startups, Season 12!
I’ll meet with each of you individually online before October 6 to help you prepare your introductory presentation.
Please book a session on September 22 or 24 through my Calendly page.
Come to our coaching session with a complete draft of your presentation and your PowerPoint slides, ready to present from beginning to end. We’ll work together on the story, clarity, timing, visuals, and delivery.
Pique their Curiosity.
October 6 is one of your first chances to meet the Advisory Board of La Maison des Startups and senior leaders from LVMH and the Maisons. Treat the presentation as an introduction, not a traditional startup pitch. Five minutes cannot explain everything you do, and that is not the goal. It is a teaser presentation!
Give the audience one clear, memorable reason to continue the conversation during lunch.
Focus first on what your technology makes possible. What problem could you solve for a Maison? Who benefits? What becomes better, easier, faster, safer, or newly possible? Features matter, but do not spend your five minutes explaining how the technology works.
Tell a Story
Tell a concrete story. If you are working with an LVMH Maison, use that experience. If you are not, choose a particular Maison, team, or business function and show how your solution could help in one specific situation. Make it easy to picture your product at work.
Problem —> Solution —> Transformation
1 . Problem
What concrete challenge exists today inside a Maison?
2 . Solution
Show how your product addresses it in one specific use case.
3 . Transformation
What changes in time, cost, quality, employee or customer experience, revenue, risk, or sustainability?
After your five minute teaser, members of the Advisory Board should have questions and start forming ideas around which team ought to meet your company.
Slides
Use as few slides as your story needs. They should help people see and understand your point, not document every feature.
Keep slides visual
No bullet points. Use images, simple diagrams, strong headlines, and minimal text. If the audience is reading, they are no longer listening.
Use PowerPoint
All presentations will be assembled into one master file, so your slides must be in PowerPoint.
Keep video brief
If you use video, make it short and visual. Consider telling the story yourself with a live voiceover.
Spark a conversation, start a relationship
Many of you are working at the frontier of AI and other emerging technologies, and we’re excited for you to introduce your products to the Maisons. But this event is just as much about human connection. It’s a chance for you to meet people across LVMH and learn what matters to them and for them to meet you. It’s a chance to start conversations and make connections that lead to meaningful collaborations.