26/07/2022
Without a doubt, one of the most important articles for founders considering investing in your story. I always go back to Danny's words here:
"Framing a startup’s thesis, product, team and market exactly right is a qualitative skill that can’t be learned from reading a book or scanning through a founder friend’s deck or two. Get a single slide wrong, or hell, a single bullet point wrong, and the whole thing can blow up in a pitch meeting in 30 seconds or less.
Trust me. As a former VC investor, I have gotten hung up on single sentences before. A founder has put their life’s work into a company, synoptically condensed it to a handful of slides and I am stuck on eight words. But those eight words make no sense, and once something doesn’t make sense, the whole edifice of excitement and confidence comes crashing down. Eight words — one badly chosen verb and adjective."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/21/should-you-pay-50k-for-your-pitch-deck-yes-why-the-hell-not/
Every once in a while on VC Twitter, a comment or statement seems so outlandish, so completely outrageous, that it must be — certainly has to be — false. Such as it was for Primary Ventures investor Jason Shuman, who commented on the recent prices for pitch deck advice in the Valley today: Found...
