
270. A Smaller Deck With Less Information
Don’t answer every question in your deck. Give just enough information to pique curiosity.
Don’t answer every question in your deck. Give just enough information to pique curiosity.
Let’s peer into the spooky world inside a VC’s brain when you’re pitching with a wall-of-text slide.
Understanding that you have a very limited amount of time and space to compete for a limited amount of investor attention.
The Team slide is your chance to answer the question, “why you?” A handful of logos is no more helpful than two paragraphs of text.
If your pitch deck should form an argument, the best way to formulate that argument is by writing it out in three sentences.
Structure your pitch deck in a way that it forms an argument and each slide supports that argument all the way through.
Market sizing should articulate how you see the market, showing that you understand your target market and can focus on it.
You don’t have critical distance from your business to be able to get out of the weeds. Get feedback on your deck from someone with that critical distance.
The author of Dropbox DocSend’s pitch deck analyses shares his insights into building a “snappy” pitch deck.
“There’s very few companies, or people, or teams that get to build the future.” -Sunny Han
Sunny looks at VC as a game, one that has rules. You can still choose to play with people good people, but know that they have objectives that may not be the same as yours.
After raising in the bubble of 2021, the next raise proved both challenging and humbling.
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