pitch decks

There is no ideal pitch deck. The narrative depends on what you’re building—but I really like this one: 1. Vision for the world in 5 years 2. The novel wedge that will get you there 3. How you plan to distribute it 4. What could go wrong 5. What you’ll prove by the time you need…

best decks I’ve seen were 3/4 slides Pre market (seed) - problem - product vision - biz model - team Early market (seed 2 / series A) - product demo - customer learnings - numbers - use of funds Market traction (A / B) - product demo - growth story - numbers - use of funds

The worst version of a fundraising ask is “we need $3M to give us 24 months of runway”. The best version is “we need $3M to accomplish these 3 critical projects we have planned that will take us from X users/revenue to 5x in 18 months. We need these 4 new positions to pull it off and we... See more