1. What is the name of the idea/business you are pitching?*

2. What is THE goal of your pitch?*

What shall happen in the best-case scenario after your pitch? What is the most important thing you want to achieve?

3. Do you know who your audience is?*

Do you know who exactly are those important people you pitching to, what is their role, names, which organizations they come from?

4. How good does your audience expect your pitch to be?*

Do you know what is the level of expectations of your audience? Do they expect you to be a professional speaker or they are ready to listen to a beginner? Do they expect you to be a professional in your area or they are ready to listen to a beginner?

5. How well do you match those expectations*

Do you match or exceed that level of expectation from your audience?

6. What can you do wrong?*

What shall happen during the pitch so that the audience will consider it as a really bad pitch?

7. Are you prepared for that?*

Do you know what you will do, or what will you say if things will start going that way?

8. What can you do to impress your audience?*

What shall happen during the pitch so that the audience will be positively impressed by your pitch?

9. What are the strong points of your pitch?*

What are the points in which you are completely sure? These can be: the best parts of your project, strong numbers, areas where you have deep knowledge, etc.

10. What are the weak points of your pitch?*

What are the points in which you are not sure? These can be: not thought through parts of your project, weak numbers, areas where you have no knowledge, etc.

11. What are the average points of your pitch?*

What are the areas that are "ok", but are not so great? These can be average numbers, areas where you have some knowledge, etc.

12. Is the storyline of your pitch ready?*

Storyline is a generic structure of your pitch. It is a sequence of topics you will cover during your pitch. It is not a text, but rather a structure.

13. Do you know how much time do you have?*

Different pitch formats have different time slots for pitching. Do you know how much time do you have? Does it include Q&A session?

14. Do you have a text of your pitch written?*

Do you have word-by-word text of what you will be telling ready and written?

15. Does your text fit the timeline?*

After all your preparations - does your text finally meet timeline?

16. Have you trained your pitch movements?*

Will you be standing in front of the audience or sitting in front of the computer? Have you trained your pitch that way?