Creating a pitch deck is hard, especially when you’ve never done it before. If you’re a first-time entrepreneur like I was when we raised our series $15 million first round for Bigcommerce back in ...

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A pitch deck is a concise, visually engaging presentation used primarily by entrepreneurs to introduce a business idea or startup to potential investors, partners or stakeholders. Typically composed ...

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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 ...

Everyone knows first impressions matter, but you might not realize how much that first handshake impacts your future progress with investors and clients. The human brain gives a lot of weight to that ...

Startups persuade investors to fund their ideas using pitch decks, or presentations that combine facts with storytelling. Business Insider publishes these decks to give inside look at how successful ...

Over the course of the past 10 weeks, I’ve taken apart 10 pitch decks as part of our Pitch Deck Teardown series. All the decks had their own strengths and weaknesses, but there was one glaring ...