Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Matt Rubright, an operator turned banker at Silicon Valley Bank. Building an effective pitch deck is a unique topic of conversation in the startup ...

Q: When preparing to pitch investors, what are the slides you should include in your deck? A: In that first meeting, most investors need just 20 minutes to decide if your idea is something they’re ...

You’ve spent weeks polishing your product, and now an investor wants to “see the deck.” Your stomach drops. You’ve got slides ...

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 ...

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. With so much riding on the outcome, ...

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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 ...

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