1/15 Talking about decks yesterday I figured it was worth putting down what I look for in a deck

-Intro
-Problem
-Solution
-Market Size
-Business Model
-Traction
-Pipeline
-3-5 Year Projections
-Go-to-Market Strategy
-Competition
-Team
-Ask
-Closing

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2/15 The Intro slide is just a simple slide with the company name or logo, the CEO's name, and some contact information

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3/15 The Problem slide is your chance to humanize the problem you are solving. I like a story using a real-world example to make the problem real and human and draw in the investors. remember the art of pitching is the art of storytelling.

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4/15 The Solution slide is where you talk about your product or solution and why it's so great without diving too deep and going into too many features (a common mistake)

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5/15 The Market slide is where you talk about how big your market is. It is common to use this slide to show how big your market is and what is the initial segment of the market you will go for.

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6/15 The Business Model slide is where you talk about how you make money and talk about your unit economics. Please know your unit economics

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7/15 The Traction slide is your chance to brag. Talk about your growth over some period of time. focus on non-vanity metrics (metrics that affect the bottom line or user use). Remember anything over 0 is something worth talking about

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8/15 The Pipeline slide is where you talk about, if you are a B2B company, the list of potential customers you are in talks with and at different levels of conversations. This is also a chance for you to talk about your sales cycle

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9/15 3-5 year projections is one founder hate but it's not really about the projections itself. It's about how you are thinking about growing/scaling your company and what assumptions you are making to accomplish that scale.

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10/15 Go-to-market slide talks about your customer acquisition strategies. If you know me, this is my favorite slide lol. talk about the different channels or ways you are planning to get customers.

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11/15 The Competition slide is where you get to showcase how well you know the competition in the market both direct and indirect, while only talking about how you're better. Don't tell me what your competition does, only what they don't do

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12/15 Team slide is a chance to brag about your team and what you have done before and don't pass over if you have ever worked on anything together. Keep in mind to add your advisors but they aren't your team.

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13/15 The Ask slide is where you say how much you are raising and why

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14/15 the Closing slide is like the into. Just have your logo or company name with your contact info and end with giving a summary of why your company is awesome and should get investment.

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15/15 This isn't a perfect deck as every investor looks for different things but a deck like this will give me the information needed to figure out if I want to meet you or not. Hope this is helpful

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