To all founders: What's your top tip for creating a winning pitch deck, and why is it important? 💡

My experience is that investors get a lot of pitch decks. So you need a razor-sharp equity story, where the headlines on each slide can already be the success factor. I am looking forward to Friday and your help with the perfect Pitchdeck

I haven't pitched giant companies or big names, however, I've learned from experts that keeping pitches short is very important in their effectiveness.

Focus on telling a compelling story. While it's important to include key data points and figures in your pitch deck, it's equally important to craft a narrative that engages your audience and paints a clear picture of your vision for the business or product.

I've worked on a lot of pitch decks for other founders before and noticed that they tend to be super wordy. My advice is to make your slides concise and straight to the point! Use less words, but make them more impactful. 👍 Pair that with clean design, and you should be off to a good start.

For me, being a VC, there were two things: 1) the basic, please make them really easy to understand. Give the proper context and examples. You would be surprised how many pitch decks are not understood by VCs. 2) the key, give a highlight that make them understand the problem and that is easily shareable with their colleagues. I have read today in one of the threads of Contrary Research the following “More than 99% of exploration projects fail to become mines and the industry makes 60% fewer discoveries than 30 years ago despite spending three times as much”. And I have thought, fuck! Thats a problem. And I can easily share that to others when selling it internally.

Here is how I have done it in the past: Mission Team (if that is strongest) Problem Market Response Market Opportunity Competitor Positioning Solution Technology Traction Funding and Roadmap Appendix with features

Good story, be clear with financials and add a slide "why not to invest".

My top tip for creating a winning pitch deck is to keep it clear, concise and focused on the most important information. Your pitch deck should tell a compelling story that captures your audience attention from the very beginning.

If you are at an early stage, and given how few unique products exist in tech, you should say what makes you different from others.

keep it short then add 20 blank slides and have a huge appendix that you can refer to as questions come up and have every slide memorized so you can skip exactly to the appendix slide that you need to if it comes up in conversation. if you're pitching in person this is always worked really well for me and maybe you don't need anything in the appendix but it's better to have it and be able to tell a story visually.