Articles on How to Create a Pitch Deck
Are you looking to raise money? Perhaps an Angel, Seed, or Series C (seriously, if you’re at Series C, you shouldn’t be wondering how to create a pitch deck). As the saying goes: always be raising, and I’ve certainly found that to be true.
I want to help my fellow founders by collecting the list of articles I found useful on writing a pitch deck. Some information repeats, some contradicts, and some I thought was plain wrong…but that is good. You re-enforce ideas and see different perspectives. Just one piece of guidance: make the deck your own and in your own voice. These guides and templates are wonderful, but they aren’t your deck. At the end of the day, the deck represents you and your company, so don’t just copy; I did and after three pitches realized the deck jarred with my presentation cadence. After a lot more work, I built a deck that was me.
Here are the articles:
- https://www.konsus.com/blog/35-best-pitch-deck-examples-2017/
- https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-design-a-better-pitch-deck/
- https://hackernoon.com/seed-fundraising-the-5-most-common-pitch-mistakes-41ee7c6d032a
- https://www.techstars.com/content/accelerators/startup-fundraising-pitch-deck-financial-modeling/
- https://medium.com/the-mission/great-pitches-start-with-change-2c7e696b86ea
- https://www.startups.co/articles/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-for-your-startups-investor-pitch-deck
- https://hackernoon.com/startup-cheat-sheet-how-to-create-a-winning-pitch-deck-c8037bcacc23
- http://blog.ycombinator.com/guide-to-demo-day-pitches/
- https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/sequoia-capital-pitchdecktemplate
- https://medium.com/startup-grind/5-places-new-york-city-startups-should-go-for-funding-b4746e16c0d5
- https://alexiskold.net/2015/11/16/why-sending-decks-to-investors-before-the-first-meeting-is-generally-a-bad-idea-and-what-to-do-about-it/
- https://medium.com/the-stack/what-should-be-in-my-fundraising-slides-eca162d14d2a
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/08/lessons-from-a-study-of-perfect-pitch-decks-vcs-spend-an-average-of-3-minutes-44-seconds-on-them/
- https://www.techstars.com/content/accelerators/5-epic-fails-pitching/
- https://blog.midweststartups.com/founder-tips-pitch-deck-questions-answered-from-both-startup-ceo-vc-bcc8244d19c6
- https://hackernoon.com/startup-cheat-sheet-how-to-close-your-first-investor-a95f936e8b85
- https://news.greylock.com/what-do-i-look-for-in-a-pitch-866355bddb3
- https://piktochart.com/blog/startup-pitch-decks-what-you-can-learn/
- http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/98034/The-Pitch-Deck-We-Used-To-Raise-500-000-For-Our-Startup.aspx
- http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/how-to-pitch-your-company
- https://500.co/how-to-pitch-a-vc/
- https://blog.producthunt.com/what-do-investors-look-for-when-evaluating-a-startup-3023a65c4160
- https://www.slideshare.net/Sky7777/the-best-startup-pitch-deck-how-to-present-to-angels-v-cs
- http://startupfundraising.com/silicon-valley-legend-creates-pitch-deck-template-for-entrepreneurs/
- https://guykawasaki.com/the-only-10-slides-you-need-in-your-pitch/
- https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/09/how-to-design-a-pitch-deck-lessons-from-a-seasoned-founder/
- http://www.reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/
- https://crew.co/blog/the-investor-presentation-we-used-to-raise-2-million/
- https://medium.com/startup-study-group/how-we-raised-700-000-for-our-startup-without-a-product-360f1e6ab1e2
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/08/lessons-from-a-study-of-perfect-pitch-decks-vcs-spend-an-average-of-3-minutes-44-seconds-on-them/
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/everyone-wants-to-be-like-airbnb-and-uber-2015-03-20
- https://venturebeat.com/2016/06/05/10-things-i-learned-from-looking-at-600-pitch-deck-reviews/
- https://www.sketchdeck.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-designing-200-pitch-decks
- https://blog.producthunt.com/startup-metrics-which-ones-matter-most-to-investors-835f6a3c9a2d
- http://paulgraham.com/convince.html?utm_source=mybridge
- https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-win-your-competitive-landscape-in-your-startup-pitch-2519210864bb
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