Over on TC+, I simply launched a brand new collection known as Pitch Deck Teardowns! Astute readers could have already got discovered what that’s all about: You submit a pitch deck and we share it with our readers, highlighting issues which might be superior, making solutions for enhancements and celebrating the enjoyable, progressive and shocking issues that we discover.
I’m notably fascinated by decks that fulfill these standards:
- The fundraise was profitable: That is simply cheap. When you’re nonetheless on the market elevating cash, we don’t know if the deck “labored,” and it turns into arduous to make use of it for example.
- The fundraise was coated on TechCrunch: A part of the enjoyable of trying via decks is the flexibility to hyperlink again to an article we posted, saying, “This was the elevate; right here is how they did it.”
- Throughout the previous yr or so: A part of the issue for founders is that numerous pattern decks on the market are 10 to fifteen years outdated. That’s cool and all, however quite a bit shifts in startup land in a yr, by no means thoughts a decade.
- As little redaction as doable: We recognize that the majority pitch decks have proprietary or commercially delicate knowledge in them. We welcome you to edit or redact, however we encourage you to take action in a means that maintains the general “taste” of the deck. You would possibly, for instance, delete an information axis however depart the remainder of the graph intact, or change “We hope to rent Mark Zuckerberg as our CTO” with “We’re hiring XXX as our CTO.”
Our objective is to construct up a database of pattern decks that startup founders can overview and study from.
You possibly can submit your deck for review here.
Who the hell are you to overview my pitch deck?
“Pitch Good” by yours actually. They let me write a ebook about these things, so which means I do know what I’m speaking about. Proper? RIGHT?! Picture Credit: Apress
I’m so glad you requested. I’ve been a journalist and storyteller my entire life. I’ve based numerous startups and went via a few accelerators. I spent a few years because the director of portfolio at a enterprise agency, the place I (amongst different issues) helped a portfolio of corporations with their storytelling, fundraising, and pitch rehearsals.
All through all of this, I ended up doing numerous pitch evaluations and pitch teaching. After I’m not writing for TechCrunch, I moonlight as a pitch and storytelling coach. Between all of this stuff, I’ve helped scores of startups discover their tales and craft nice pitches — the overwhelming majority of which had been profitable in elevating capital.
Oh, and I wrote a ebook about methods to create a terrific pitch. It’s known as “Pitch Perfect” and it’s out there in good bookstores and numerous terrible ones as properly. Together with the ebook, I created a pitch template for a fictional firm known as BeerSub.com — it consists of numerous in-depth notes and offers a glimpse into how I consider using decks as a storytelling.
Sound like enjoyable? Superior. You possibly can submit your deck for review here, and you’ll find our existing pitch deck teardowns here.
