Lessons we learned from designing 30+ pitch decksVisual Hackers
Everyone has their own way of communicating and this is reflected in the way they formulate their pitch deck structure. In all these journeys, we’ve learned a series of lessons that we want to share with you today, based on real-life decks we've helped build.
The deck we used to raise $270k for our startup Castleentercastle
Castle (entercastle.com) is a Detroit-based real estate startup that lets rental owners put their properties on autopilot. In April 2015, we closed a $270,000 angel round using this deck.
Questions? Comments? I'd love to hear from you. Email me at max@entercastle.com.
Meet DoggyHut – A totally awesome and fictional startup
DoggyHut is a fictional startup invented by Iskender Dirik, a VC and entrepreneur. Based on Iskender's years of being pitched by startups, he built what he sees as the ideal pitch deck, containing the key elements needed to persuade a VC, but in the compact and focused form factor that he has seen achieve the best results.
This deck is intended to be emailed or handed over to a VC for them to review. This is not a presentation deck, which should feature far less text and information.
You could download the pitch deck in high resolution under:
www.bit.ly/doggyhut
A presentation on The Art of Pitching by Kashyap Pandya - Founder & Director of Syncoro Ventures Pvt Ltd. The presentation covers the key points to be included in your pitch deck while presenting it to the prospective investors.
Presentation from Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of Arafura Ventures, and author of "Inside Silicon Valley: How the deals get done," with a slide-by-slide approach to developing your pitch deck -- using examples from real-life winning pitch decks.
Check out sample essential pitch deck slides for: .
- Mission/Vision
- Problem/Solution
- Market size
- IP
- Financial projections
- Management team
- and more!
Sponsored by Early Growth Financial Services and Cooley.
Lessons we learned from designing 30+ pitch decksVisual Hackers
Everyone has their own way of communicating and this is reflected in the way they formulate their pitch deck structure. In all these journeys, we’ve learned a series of lessons that we want to share with you today, based on real-life decks we've helped build.
The deck we used to raise $270k for our startup Castleentercastle
Castle (entercastle.com) is a Detroit-based real estate startup that lets rental owners put their properties on autopilot. In April 2015, we closed a $270,000 angel round using this deck.
Questions? Comments? I'd love to hear from you. Email me at max@entercastle.com.
Meet DoggyHut – A totally awesome and fictional startup
DoggyHut is a fictional startup invented by Iskender Dirik, a VC and entrepreneur. Based on Iskender's years of being pitched by startups, he built what he sees as the ideal pitch deck, containing the key elements needed to persuade a VC, but in the compact and focused form factor that he has seen achieve the best results.
This deck is intended to be emailed or handed over to a VC for them to review. This is not a presentation deck, which should feature far less text and information.
You could download the pitch deck in high resolution under:
www.bit.ly/doggyhut
A presentation on The Art of Pitching by Kashyap Pandya - Founder & Director of Syncoro Ventures Pvt Ltd. The presentation covers the key points to be included in your pitch deck while presenting it to the prospective investors.
Presentation from Marc Phillips, Managing Partner of Arafura Ventures, and author of "Inside Silicon Valley: How the deals get done," with a slide-by-slide approach to developing your pitch deck -- using examples from real-life winning pitch decks.
Check out sample essential pitch deck slides for: .
- Mission/Vision
- Problem/Solution
- Market size
- IP
- Financial projections
- Management team
- and more!
Sponsored by Early Growth Financial Services and Cooley.
A reproduction of Pitch Deck Template for raising seed capital by NextView Ventures.
No time to create a presentation from scratch? Use this template by NextView Ventures with ready to use slides to make your point. Stay focused on your ideas, not the looks. From investor decks to demo day presentations, this pitch deck template will save your startup hours of work on slide design.
VC Pitch - Presentation template (The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint)davidklein
Compiled by Matt Cutler, mcutler@alum.mit.edu
“Three guys with great content and a desire to share it with the world.”
Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital, The Torturous World of Powerpoint
“The world would be a better place if all entrepreneurs could automagically incorporate this outline into their pitches - at least to me.”
David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners
How Not to Write a Business Plan: “Your presentation should not exceed 10 slides. The appendix can include as many slides as you want.”
Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Venures: The 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint
“A PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.”
Primer on raising seed capital for first time and experienced startup founders and employees. In this slideshare, I provide insight into the following questions:
-What is seed capital?
-Why should I raise?
-What is the current state of the seed market.
-Who invets in startups?
-How do I prepare?
-What is the close process?
-What are some useful resources?
Mapme Investor Deck.
The deck we originally used to raise our seed round of $1M. See the progress we've made at www.mapme.com. Welcome to try it out and create a map.
Any questions? I'm at ben@mapme.com
This is the deck that accompanied Dave Kochbeck's webinar on July 10, 2014.
In the webinar he guided founders of all stripes through the perfect pitch. Determine what are the most important touch-points to prepare for, what you should be aware of and what you should focus in on and highlight about your exciting company. From founders seeking pre-seed to late seed funding, this is the most important Webinar you should attend.
Women 2.0's Webinars are a new event to promote new networks amongst the entire technology ecosystem in innovative cities around the world. This event is open to those who work, start, and fund tech companies. Both women and men are invited to attend.
To view our next webinar go here: http://women2.com/webinars
To apply for PITCH go here (Deadline July 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojgVtj
Women 2.0 Fall Conference in San Francisco (September 30 - October 1, 2014): http://sf.women2.com
How to make an investor pitch deck that really worksDeck Rooster
In sales, a well established principle is, before one starts pitching to a customer, one should listen to what the customer has to say. That is because if you listen carefully he will lay out his needs in front of you, letting you present your solution in a way that fits into his needs perfectly.
The principle should be equally useful while pitching to an investor while raising funds. I can’t see a reason why it won’t be. But no one seems to be suggesting “you should listen more and talk less during an investor pitch”. Probably it is assumed that we already know what investors look for in a business. Is it a rockstar team; or may be a huge market size or is it traction or a break-through technology? Or may be different investors look for different combination of those things.
Actually all of those are means towards an end. They help investors figure out something more specific and quantitative that all investors look for in a startup before investing. But what is it?
A 10x return on their investment. That is it.
That number may vary from an early stage investor to a growth stage one, but you get the point, right? Not everyone says it out loud, because it makes them look money hungry, but that is what an investor business is all about.
But, now with that knowledge, how do you tweak your pitch and your pitch deck to make an investor feel that you are offering him an investment opportunity that could deliver a 10x return? And more importantly, can your business even deliver 10x return?
The above presentation by Deck Rooster answers those questions and offers a structure (not a template) for an investor pitch deck for startups. Check it out.
We're developing augmented reality software to help clinicians with pre-surgical planning by providing them with patient-specific, high fidelity 3D holograms that have been derived from the same data used to generate conventional CT scans and MRIs.
Innovate Calgary's Presentation on Perfecting the Investor Pitch at Startup W...Boast Capital
This is a presentation by Alex Raczenko, EIR at Innovate Calgary in Alberta at Startup Weekend on July 12, 2013. Alex discusses the 12 key questions every entrepreneur needs to answer before raising outside capital. Following this presentation you will be able to perfect your investor pitch.
DocSend Fundraising Research: What we Learned from 200 Startups Who Raised $360MDocSend
Why do some startups get funded? What makes for the best pitch? How does the process work?
DocSend recently teamed up with Professor Tom Eisenmann from Harvard Business School. Together, we conducted research that gave us the answers to those questions. We studied the fundraising of 200 startup companies as they went through their Series Seed and Series A rounds. Altogether, these companies raised more than $360 million.
Why this data is awesome:
Fundraising is a historically opaque endeavor. There’s very little data available and most advice tends to be anecdotal. DocSend is in the unique position of being able to quantitatively analyze the interaction between founders and investors, and tie that to fundraising outcomes in a statistically meaningful way.
Why we built this report:
DocSend aims to help companies share documents in a smarter, safer, and more impactful way. We believe this research is in service of that mission and can help push the startup ecosystem forward as a whole.
Background on DocSend:
DocSend helps sales people track and control documents they send to clients. We’ve also become very popular amongst founders in the fundraising process. Hundreds of startups have used our platform to circulate pitch decks to investors.
Ready to ditch email attachments and put your pitch materials to work for you?
Sign up for a free plan at docsend.com
How to define and position your VC brand to attract funding and dealflow.
* note: more recent updated version below:
https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/branding-strategies-for-better-dealflow-and-fundraising-aka-the-helpful-vc
The Best Pitch Deck Format To Attract InvestorsBryce North
**Validated by real investors!**
Based on the Guy Kawaski format, this pitch deck layout has been proven over and over again and has helped many companies raise their investment round.
If you are looking to raise your seed round, impress investors, and build a high-quality investment deck, then make sure you follow this format. This is the best pitch deck template available today.
Find more great resources here --> www.dontbealittlepitch.com
Inilah pitch deck dari raksasa media digital, Buzzfeed. Bagi kamu yang memiliki model bisnis yang serupa dengan BuzzFeed, mungkin kamu dapat terinspirasi dari pitch deck ini.
A reproduction of Pitch Deck Template for raising seed capital by NextView Ventures.
No time to create a presentation from scratch? Use this template by NextView Ventures with ready to use slides to make your point. Stay focused on your ideas, not the looks. From investor decks to demo day presentations, this pitch deck template will save your startup hours of work on slide design.
VC Pitch - Presentation template (The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint)davidklein
Compiled by Matt Cutler, mcutler@alum.mit.edu
“Three guys with great content and a desire to share it with the world.”
Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital, The Torturous World of Powerpoint
“The world would be a better place if all entrepreneurs could automagically incorporate this outline into their pitches - at least to me.”
David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners
How Not to Write a Business Plan: “Your presentation should not exceed 10 slides. The appendix can include as many slides as you want.”
Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Venures: The 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint
“A PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.”
Primer on raising seed capital for first time and experienced startup founders and employees. In this slideshare, I provide insight into the following questions:
-What is seed capital?
-Why should I raise?
-What is the current state of the seed market.
-Who invets in startups?
-How do I prepare?
-What is the close process?
-What are some useful resources?
Mapme Investor Deck.
The deck we originally used to raise our seed round of $1M. See the progress we've made at www.mapme.com. Welcome to try it out and create a map.
Any questions? I'm at ben@mapme.com
This is the deck that accompanied Dave Kochbeck's webinar on July 10, 2014.
In the webinar he guided founders of all stripes through the perfect pitch. Determine what are the most important touch-points to prepare for, what you should be aware of and what you should focus in on and highlight about your exciting company. From founders seeking pre-seed to late seed funding, this is the most important Webinar you should attend.
Women 2.0's Webinars are a new event to promote new networks amongst the entire technology ecosystem in innovative cities around the world. This event is open to those who work, start, and fund tech companies. Both women and men are invited to attend.
To view our next webinar go here: http://women2.com/webinars
To apply for PITCH go here (Deadline July 31, 2014): http://bit.ly/1ojgVtj
Women 2.0 Fall Conference in San Francisco (September 30 - October 1, 2014): http://sf.women2.com
How to make an investor pitch deck that really worksDeck Rooster
In sales, a well established principle is, before one starts pitching to a customer, one should listen to what the customer has to say. That is because if you listen carefully he will lay out his needs in front of you, letting you present your solution in a way that fits into his needs perfectly.
The principle should be equally useful while pitching to an investor while raising funds. I can’t see a reason why it won’t be. But no one seems to be suggesting “you should listen more and talk less during an investor pitch”. Probably it is assumed that we already know what investors look for in a business. Is it a rockstar team; or may be a huge market size or is it traction or a break-through technology? Or may be different investors look for different combination of those things.
Actually all of those are means towards an end. They help investors figure out something more specific and quantitative that all investors look for in a startup before investing. But what is it?
A 10x return on their investment. That is it.
That number may vary from an early stage investor to a growth stage one, but you get the point, right? Not everyone says it out loud, because it makes them look money hungry, but that is what an investor business is all about.
But, now with that knowledge, how do you tweak your pitch and your pitch deck to make an investor feel that you are offering him an investment opportunity that could deliver a 10x return? And more importantly, can your business even deliver 10x return?
The above presentation by Deck Rooster answers those questions and offers a structure (not a template) for an investor pitch deck for startups. Check it out.
We're developing augmented reality software to help clinicians with pre-surgical planning by providing them with patient-specific, high fidelity 3D holograms that have been derived from the same data used to generate conventional CT scans and MRIs.
Innovate Calgary's Presentation on Perfecting the Investor Pitch at Startup W...Boast Capital
This is a presentation by Alex Raczenko, EIR at Innovate Calgary in Alberta at Startup Weekend on July 12, 2013. Alex discusses the 12 key questions every entrepreneur needs to answer before raising outside capital. Following this presentation you will be able to perfect your investor pitch.
DocSend Fundraising Research: What we Learned from 200 Startups Who Raised $360MDocSend
Why do some startups get funded? What makes for the best pitch? How does the process work?
DocSend recently teamed up with Professor Tom Eisenmann from Harvard Business School. Together, we conducted research that gave us the answers to those questions. We studied the fundraising of 200 startup companies as they went through their Series Seed and Series A rounds. Altogether, these companies raised more than $360 million.
Why this data is awesome:
Fundraising is a historically opaque endeavor. There’s very little data available and most advice tends to be anecdotal. DocSend is in the unique position of being able to quantitatively analyze the interaction between founders and investors, and tie that to fundraising outcomes in a statistically meaningful way.
Why we built this report:
DocSend aims to help companies share documents in a smarter, safer, and more impactful way. We believe this research is in service of that mission and can help push the startup ecosystem forward as a whole.
Background on DocSend:
DocSend helps sales people track and control documents they send to clients. We’ve also become very popular amongst founders in the fundraising process. Hundreds of startups have used our platform to circulate pitch decks to investors.
Ready to ditch email attachments and put your pitch materials to work for you?
Sign up for a free plan at docsend.com
How to define and position your VC brand to attract funding and dealflow.
* note: more recent updated version below:
https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/branding-strategies-for-better-dealflow-and-fundraising-aka-the-helpful-vc
The Best Pitch Deck Format To Attract InvestorsBryce North
**Validated by real investors!**
Based on the Guy Kawaski format, this pitch deck layout has been proven over and over again and has helped many companies raise their investment round.
If you are looking to raise your seed round, impress investors, and build a high-quality investment deck, then make sure you follow this format. This is the best pitch deck template available today.
Find more great resources here --> www.dontbealittlepitch.com
Inilah pitch deck dari raksasa media digital, Buzzfeed. Bagi kamu yang memiliki model bisnis yang serupa dengan BuzzFeed, mungkin kamu dapat terinspirasi dari pitch deck ini.
This presentation was based on information given at FOWA workshop by Mike McDerment, creator of Freshbooks. This was not meant to cover anywhere near the level Mike did, but simply some highlights and tips.
The presentation that I have at TiE, Kolkata talking about the FusionCharts journey - right from conception to the current day, and the lessons I learnt along the way.
How To Launch A Product: 7 Tips To Drive DemandDrift
Whether you're a product marketer, growth marketer or customer marketer, you'll be able to use the 7 steps in this guide to nail your next product launch and drive demand.
The Affiliate Masters Course is an intensive 10-DAY course on becoming a
High-earning affiliate champion.
How? By “building income through content,” the proven, C T P M way!
An affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to get your feet wet in e-business.
You send visitors (i.e., potential customers) to a merchant’s Web site that you are
Representing. If they buy or complete a required action (for example, fill in a
Form), the merchant pays you a commission. No fuss, no muss!
How to Launch a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign And Fund Your First Producti...Zach Smith
In this presentation, the CEO and CoFounder of Funded Today (https://www.Funded.Today/) goes over "The 7 P's For Crowdfunding Success", Funded Today's proprietary tactics, methods, and strategies to show you how to potentially raise a lot of money leveraging rewards-based crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.
To learn more about Funded Today or to see if you qualify for their services, apply here on their website anytime: https://www.Funded.Today/get-more-pledges/
Sharing our Pitch Deck with the community. This is the deck we used to raise our pre-seed funding and got $1.4M.
We are sharing this because we know the pain we went through when figuring out how to make a presentable deck for potential investors. It is very hard in the SaaS space.
Most of the content on the internet gives you advice that is only usable if you already have a scaled product and a proof of concept. What if you only have an awesome product?
That's what we had and that was enough. We break everything down for you here, slide by slide. Hope this helps at least a startup or two out there.
Go get them! ;)
Teams That Ship Have More Fun! (And Profit)shayfrendt
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I gave this talk at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on March 29th, 2011.
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What if you only had 2 weeks to ship your software?
I bet you’d ship the best feature first.
Would your customers object to you solving their problem that soon?
Well…what are you waiting for? Ship it!
In this talk, Shay will review real-life examples of how shipping less software, interacting with customers earlier, and keeping release cycles short have enabled product teams he’s worked on to learn faster, course correct sooner, and keep building the right thing.
Leanconf 2014: the agony of lean startup by tristan kromerLeanconf
Lean startup is slowly moving beyond the buzzwords and being codified in books, templates, and Standard Operating Procedures. We're learning how to run experiments, but our teams are failing and flailing on finding a business they can actually care about. We're staring so closely at our innovation accounting dashboard that we're not only missing out on the view, but we're driving right past our goals into the ditch. Are we taking the fun and passion out of startups?
How to startup! (and not be a programmer) [idea investigation; competitive landscape; what problem are you solving; how are you solving better than others; who would actually use your service if you came through the way you plan?; pencil wireframes/sketches of information architecture; digital mockups; pretty design; cutup of pages; programming; testing; bug fixes / revising; private launch (more testing/feedback/revising); public launch; marketing; blogging; reaching out; listen]
You have a Makerspace; so what's next? Join Brian Pichman from the Evolve Project as he walks you through how to plan, market, and organize your programming events for your Makerspace. Brian will also share successful programming ideas regardless of library type. Allow your public library or school library to foster innovation and offer unique opportunities to encourage more patrons to interact, grow, and learn.
Topics/Agenda:
* Ways to Organize Your Space
* Marketing Tips and Tricks
* Planning for the Future
* Programming Ideas for your Makerspace
Desired Outcomes:
After attending the webinar, you will have new ideas for your Makerspace to draw more attendees, see positive outcomes, and educate your local community (whether a school or public library) to foster more innovation and collaboration.
Personal summary of the World Creativity Forum about creativity and innovation at the 16th and 17th November 2011 in Hasselt, Flanders.
Keynotes: Malcolm Gladwell, Alexander Osterwalder, Scott Belski, Peter Hinssen, Garr Reynolds, Keith Sawyer, Jamie Anderson, Patti Maes
creativityworldforum.be
Texts in Dutch and English.
2. Anthony Frasier
Founder, The Phat Startup
Partner, BrickCity Tech / Converge
I founded Playd, an app that allowed gamers to share
their activity across multiple platforms. I was featured on
“CNN’s Black in America: The New Promised Land -
Silicon Valley.” I also made NBC The Grio’s 100: Making
History Today list. Was featured in Tech Crunch, CNN
Money, Black Enterprise, and speak at various industry
events.
3. How To Pitch Your Startup
Because there is a natural storytelling urge and ability in all human
beings, even just a little nurturing of this impulse can bring about
astonishing and delightful results. —Nancy Mellon, The Art of
Storytelling
4. Every To Pitch Your Startup
How
time you pitch, your telling a
Story
11. How To Pitch Your Startup
Something Something Your
+ =
Familiar Familiar Startup
12. For my first company “Playd” I told people it was......
How To Pitch Your Startup
for
Because Foursquare tracked locations, we were doing the same
activity for video games.
13. How To Pitch Your Startup
Most tech startups try to use other popular tech
products. But anything familiar will do the job.
26. The elevator is a metaphor for the time it takes to
get to the next floor or.....
HURRY UP, YOU DONT HAVE MUCH TIME!
27. How To Pitch Your Startup
Almost a million
ways online
teaching you how to
write one.
28. How To Pitch Your Startup
So I’ll show you a simple framework to help start.
29. Your 30 second pitch should include all of this stuff
1. High Concept pitch/What is your product?
2. Problem
3. Solution
4. How do you make money?
5. Traction
6. Who is working on the product?
7. Why are you better than your competition?
8. The ask/Follow up
30. Lets try out one
GarbageDay is Weather.com for trash pick ups. 2 out
of 5 people forget when it’s trash day, as a result end
up paying fees. We created a mobile app that gives
users notifications when it’s trash day, saving them
time and money. The app is free so we make money
displaying local advertising. We have 10,000 users
and make $2,000 in monthly revenue. My name is
Anthony Frasier, I'm building the app with my co
founder James Lopez a computer science major.
There are similar apps out, but none have our
calendar integration. I would love to get your card
and set up a time to speak further about
GarbageDay.
31. The Breakdown:
GarbageDay is Weather.com for trash pick
ups. 2 out of 5 people forget when it’s trash
day, as a result end up paying fees. We created
1. High Concept pitch/What is your product? a mobile app that gives users notifications
2. Problem when it’s trash day, saving them time and
3. Solution money. The app is free so we make money
4. How do you make money? displaying local advertising. We have 10,000
5. Traction users and make $2,000 in monthly revenue. My
6. Who is working on the product? name is Anthony Frasier, I'm building the app
7. Why are you better than your competition? with my co founder James Lopez a computer
8. The ask/Follow up science major. There are similar apps out, but
none have our calendar integration. I would
love to get your card and set up a time to
speak further about GarbageDay.
32. You don’t have much time, so the name of the
game here is
Sacrifice
33. Choose how many seconds you want to
spend on each
1. High Concept pitch/What is your product? 3s
2. Problem 4s
3. Solution 4s
4. How do you make money? 3s
5. Traction 5s
6. Who is working on the product? 4s
7. Why are you better than your competition? 4s
8. The ask/Follow up 3s
34. Then add/subtract on the areas you feel
are most important.
1. High Concept pitch/What is your product? 3s +
2. Problem 4s -
3. Solution 4s +
4. How do you make money? 3s -
5. Traction 5s -
6. Who is working on the product? 4s +
7. Why are you better than your competition? 4s -
8. The ask/Follow up 3s +
35. Try your best not to sacrifice these two
items.
1. High Concept pitch/What is your product? 3s +
2. Problem 4s -
3. Solution 4s +
4. How do you make money?
5. Traction
6. Who is working on the product? 4s +
6. Why are you better than your competition? 4s -
7. The ask/Follow up 3s +
49. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
50. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
51. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
52. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
53. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
54. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
55. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
56. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
57. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
58. I like Mark Suster’s formula
1.Bio of top 3 people in the company. Short
sentences, bullet points, easy to read.
2. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you
exist)
highest level
4. Details on the solution
How To Pitch Your Startup
3. How you solve that problem conceptually at the
[Demo could go here]
5. Why you believe there is economic value in what
you do / how you think you can monetize one day
6. Competition
7. Progress to date of your company (when started, key
milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot /
beta customers, financing)
8. Market sizing
9. Potential future exit possibilities
10. How much are you raising, how long will it last, key
milestones you plan to hit before the next round
59. ?
You don’t have to follow this closely, but its a great guide on what each
slide should be about.
60. For example when I pitched my first company “Playd” I switched
some things around.
Traction Market Team
My team wasn't super technical, so I placed it near the end to put
more focus on the problem I was solving and traction.
61. Common Mistake
How To Pitch Your Startup
Taking too long
explaining or
demo’ing
anything
62. How To Pitch Your Startup
Use a slide size that makes sense for large screens.
I used 1280 x 720 for this deck your viewing.
64. Work on displaying good:
Confidence Pitch Your Startup
How To
Passion
Posture
65. How To Pitch Your Startup
Practice
In the
Mirror
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67. Thanks!
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lets chat!
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