A pitch deck is a concise, visually engaging presentation used primarily by entrepreneurs to introduce a business idea or startup to potential investors, partners or stakeholders. Typically composed ...

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. With so much riding on the outcome, ...

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It’s a commonly accepted wisdom that you need between 10 and 20 slides to tell the story of your startup. A lot of founders don’t seem to realize that not all slides are the same, however. Some slides ...

In a lot of the pitch deck teardowns, I get stumped by a certain slide, even though I am 99% sure that when a founder uses it to pitch a VC, they will give a little bit of additional context that ...

Creating a pitch deck is hard, especially when you’ve never done it before. If you’re a first-time entrepreneur like I was when we raised our series $15 million first round for Bigcommerce back in ...

Anyone with a winning track record of successfully pitching investors and buyers has figured out the formula. They know their audience, honed their story and separated their brand from the pack. I've ...

The CEO said that he copied his investor's questions into Perplexity and asked the AI tool to answer it like he would.

What exactly is a pitch deck? What is traction for a startup, and how do you include it in a pitch deck in a powerful way for investors? What makes a good pitch deck when it comes to getting your ...