270. A Smaller Deck With Less Information
Don’t answer every question in your deck. Give just enough information to pique curiosity.
Get expert tips on building pitch decks that clearly communicate your startup story to investors.
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.
Pick three weeks to block out just for initial investor meetings to create a tight feedback loop.
Two common mistakes: trying to tell everything in the first meeting, and not finding your painkiller solution.
What works for one founder might not work for another. Build the pitch deck that works for you.