TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2021
Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 16, 2014
Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. That''s an interesting question.
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Dream It
JULY 31, 2019
The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.
TechCrunch
MARCH 3, 2021
Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at it. “Investors see a lot of pitches,” VC and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman noted. “In A pitch deck is a tool to show VCs why your idea merits investment. exit strategy”. just X percent”.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
You want to proactively manage the order in which people access information and focus their attention on a few key documents that they can return to when they fall down a rabbit hole. Founders should think of three primary documents as their “holy trinity”: the deck, the strategy memo and the forecast model.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Back when I was pitching my previous startup to investors, it had never really dawned on me that they had experienced what I was going through--and that a VC firm was essentially a startup. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.
Gust
AUGUST 19, 2012
The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need.
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