TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. Moreover, some of the old pitch deck templates that are floating around on the internet have an exit strategy slide on them, so it makes sense that people are still making this mistake.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

How to think about your competitor slide for your pitch deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch There’s no such thing as a startup without competitors, but you need to know how to talk about them, including how you plan to exist alongside the competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” slide is a great addition to your story. ’ slide by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch The answer is often related to something that is shifting and changing, either in the market or with the technology layer. Anchoring your company with a good “why now?”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In my teardown for Encore’s pitch deck this week, for example (TechCrunch+ subscription required), the company starts with a team slide — that’s bold, and it works for some companies, but not for others. Many, probably most, of the people I work with haven’t given enough thought to the order of the slides.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The order of the slides can differ, the slides you choose to include can vary, and the aspects of the pitch you focus on can vary dramatically from company to company, depending on what’s unusual about the product or the market or the stage of the startup. This is where the solution and product slides come in.

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Xebia

MAY 15, 2023

If you have, you know that it wasn’t very efficient: you either had to change who was actually sharing the slides or the one sharing the slides had to follow the speaker’s instructions “Next slide, please”. As the primary presenter, you can assign attendants to co-present the Google Slides.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Despite its simple purpose, the Ask slide is “almost universally a struggle to get right,” says Haje Jan Kamps, who reviews five reasons why founders frequently miss the mark: Forgetting to include the slide altogether. Including a valuation on the slide. The one slide 99% of founders get wrong when fundraising.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve got some hard-earned advice on that front, as well as suggestions for five must-have board slides — customized for leaders at B2B, software-as-a-service companies — that will help you give a great presentation and preserve your sanity. The first is fairly well known: Don’t present slides; present the story. Deliver the goods.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Particularly for first-timers, the pitch has become an existential drama, which can lead to poor decisions like overlong slide decks, failing to prepare investors before a meeting, and fatally, exaggerating the size of the total addressable market (TAM) in which they hope to compete.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Grant Lee has been living in slide decks for most of his career, but it wasn’t until he was doing some advisory work last year that relied heavily on slides that he aimed to reimagine the format. Slides were built for a different era of work,” he told TechCrunch. They were more of a visual aid. The Gamma team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market. 5 critical pitch deck slides most founders get wrong. Use case/audience. Possible outcomes. Thanks for reading; I hope you have an excellent weekend. Walter Thompson.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 9, 2022

Whip out your abacus, slide rule, and walking shoes. Can most visualize making decisions on what to sell, who to sell stuff to and how best to do that without being immersed entirely in the wonderful world of research? […]. The post SOPHISTICATED RESEARCH? appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Slides in this deck ANYbotics sent through a lightly redacted deck that only blurs customer logos and financials. A logical evolution [Slide 4] Nothing is inevitable, but this is a very compelling story. Image Credits : ANYbotics Experienced robotics investors won’t truly need this slide, but ANYbotics is shrewd to include it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Slides in this deck. Glambook raised its investment with a 19-slide deck, and they agreed to share it with us in full: Cover slide. Problem slide. “Unsolved for a reason” — opportunity slide. Solution slide. Value Proposition slide. Market slide. Addressable market slide.

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Marcusoft

JULY 4, 2023

We were wondering for a while and then decided that Google Slides could be up for the job. Here’s my plan: Create a Google Slide Template that will serve as the report original. This is needed since Google Slides needs to be able to access the files over the internet, without credentials, to insert them in the report.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Slides in this deck At 21 slides, Gable’s deck is longer than average. Here’s what it included: Cover slide Team slide Market context slide (“The revolution of remote work”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No. 1 Case study slide No.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Careerist claims it closed an $8 million round of funding with a tight 12-slide deck and gave us a lot to learn from in the process. Slides in this deck The team submitted this slide deck with the note that it was submitted exactly as it pitched it to the investors. million of capital. That all adds up.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

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 “unlocks” the slide and helps it make sense. Slide 6 from Forethought’s pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

.” Cover slide Market slide Problem slide Mission slide (“We are here to make 9 lives 10”) Competition slide Product slide How it works slide Why Now interstitial slide Business metrics slide Milestones slide Team slide Use of Funds slide Performance interstitial slide CAC slide Go to market/growth channels slide Value Prop slide Churn analysis (..)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Uber knew location-based services would be huge [Slide 24] Uber knew from the start that it might have adjacent markets as an option. Made possible by smartphones Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, this is a fantastically obvious one, but … [Slide 21] SmartPhones. They’re a thing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Slides in this deck Laoshi’s deck consists of 11 main slides and four appendix slides. Team slide is A+ [Slide 7] A team slide should convince investors that you’re the right folks to build this company. But as a base-level team slide, this ticks a lot of boxes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Honeycomb, which describes itself as a “debugger for live production systems,” shared its winning $50 million Series D pitch deck with TechCrunch: Cover slide Data summary snapshot slide Problem slide Solution slide Competitive landscape slide Product category overview slide Customer landscape slide part 1 (mostly redacted) Customer landscape slide (..)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 seed deck TechCrunch+ roundup: 20 questions VCs ask, crypto compliance tips, Indian investor survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Slides in this deck StudentFinance shared a slightly redacted slide deck; it removed sensitive revenue, cost and unit economics slides. Clear, bold mission [Slide 2] Off to a solid start. This slide invites investors to join the journey, something all startups should do when pitching. Everything else is as pitched.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

As soon as I saw the cover slide for BusRight, I knew I was looking at something really interesting. Here are some highlights: Great customer slide It’s tempting to dive into the unit economics, the growth trajectories and all the ways that the problem is awful and the solution is genius and the product delights. I love my job.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Slides in this deck MiO Marketplace comes out of the gate hard and just keeps going. Its team slide focuses on all the right things, it does a good job explaining its value prop and including the company’s mission helps solidify how it views the landscape. Those are all useful. So what does a VC do next?

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

This is the slide-deck equivalent of a standup comedian standing on a stage, peering into the spotlights, muttering ‘pharmacies, amirite?’ Slides in this deck. Cover slide. Cover slide — Business overview. “The Current Pharmacy Experience is Highly Inefficient” — Problem slide.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Your first slide is obviously important for a pitch deck; first impressions count, and having a solid introduction goes a long way. It seems that founders often forget that the last slide is just as important. The way to do that is by reinforcing your message on the first and last slides. Are you Turo for caravans ?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 seed deck Three more from the TC+ team: How to feed your investors the data they want : Investors want best-of-the-best ESG data. In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 Here’s how to give it to them, T. Alexander Puutio advises.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

The company, which helps developers manage commercial real estate projects, shared its winning pitch deck with Haje Jan Kamps after “it removed a few of the most financially sensitive slides:” Cover slide Problem slide 1 Problem slide 2 Product slide Market size slide Solution slide Value proposition slide KPI slide (marked as “financials” (..)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The company gets a few parts of the slide deck right that we rarely see done well, so that’s wonderfully refreshing. Slides in this deck. Card Blanch’s deck consists of just 12 slides, and the team tells us that it is exactly as pitched without redactions. Cover slide. Problem slide. Market size slide.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Slides in this deck Cover slide Problem slide part 1 Problem slide part 2 Solution slide part 1 Solution slide part 2 Value proposition slide User testimonials slide Traction slide Revenue slide Retention slide User profile slide Growth projection slide Vision slide The ask slide Contact slide Appendices cover slide Appendix 1: Why now?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Slides in this deck. In the vast majority of cases, this is a slide that makes my eyes glaze over; Forethought’s slide made me do a double take because it is a rare exception to that rule. Cover slide. Founders slide. TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield slide — (Yes, really!).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Slides in this deck. Sateliot’s deck consists of 18 slides and is almost as pitched; the company redacted some of the info that goes into depth about how its tech works. Cover slide. “90% of the world has no cellular coverage” — problem slide. Team slide. ” slide. Market size slide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Slides in this deck Incymo AI’s deck has only 12 slides, so the company needs to make every slide count. An enormous market [Slide 7] That’s a huge TAM. These slides seem to indicate the opposite; not a great look. The bottom-down SOM, however, is also pretty unsophisticated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

.” Here’s their 21-slide Series A deck: Cover slide Team slide Market context slide (“The revolution of remote work”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Going remote-first is hard”) How people solve it now (“How it’s done today”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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