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15 Innovative Pitch Deck Designs That Drove Investor Engagement

StartupNation

I’ll never forget presenting to a particularly skeptical VC who kept questioning our projections. I treated the product demo as a live slide. I also incorporated a live demo section to enable investors to see the tool in action. That order carried more weight than traditional pitch sequencing.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. So we’ve also eliminated these high-end production demo days, the big events. When we see great talent coming through in great companies, we’re not waiting for a demo day to showcase that.

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Launching Orange Collective: Exclusively Investing in Y Combinator Companies

David Teten VC

Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. The Orange Collective team have collectively angel invested in 200+ Y Combinator companies, including unicorn outcomes like Ironclad, Vanta, Replit, Moonvalley, and Snapdocs. We have over 150 Y Combinator alumni as actively engaged LPs.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. I don’t.

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The Amazing Disappearing VC

This is going to be BIG.

A number of VC firms have hired specialists in the area of recruiting. Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. It's happening on their side, too.

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Tattoos and YCombinator Demo Day

This is going to be BIG.

Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. In fact, you'd probably be better off both deciding on a tat on demo day. I'm saying this because I went to my first YCombinator Demo Day last Tuesday. How active are they?

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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

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As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well. From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment.