The job of a deck
Your deck exists to get the next meeting, not to close the round. Keep it tight, visual and honest. Eleven slides is plenty for a seed raise.
The 11 slides
- 1. Vision / one-liner
- 2. Problem
- 3. Solution
- 4. Product (show it)
- 5. Market size (bottom-up)
- 6. Business model
- 7. Traction
- 8. Competition / why now
- 9. Team
- 10. The ask & use of funds
- 11. Contact
What investors actually scan for
- A real, painful problem
- Evidence you can build and sell
- Honest, bottom-up market sizing
- A reason this is the right team at the right time
Traction beats narrative. One slide of real usage data is worth five slides of market theory.
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