Kelly: What is your ideal format for a pitch deck? The ideal early-stage pitch deck should be 10-15 pages (plus an appendix) and should tell the following story: 1. Cover – Company logo, a company ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As an entrepreneur, a pitch deck is your most powerful tool to impress investors and raise investments from them. However, creating the ...

Here’s the best and worst part about a pitch deck: It should be short. Founders always want to go long. They have so much information to share, and so many points they want to make! But that just ...

What Is A Pitch Deck? A pitch deck is a comprehensive and precise presentation or document that outlines the key aspects of a startup to potential investors or stakeholders. Studies indicate that only ...

One hundred and seventy seconds. Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at your deck. “Investors see a lot of ...

Startup companies often prepare an “investor pitch deck,” which is a slide presentation summary of the company, its team members, the company’s products and technology, and other key information. The ...

It was a Tuesday afternoon seven years ago when I had my first investors meeting. A recent university graduate, I had no clue how to persuade investors or raise money. All I knew was that I needed to ...

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 ...

VC funding dropped 11% in the first quarter of 2022, after a two-year high. The pitch deck is often the clincher for founders vying for competitive funding dollars. Entrepreneurs and investors say, ...

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 ...