“We don’t have competitors,” some founders say. Or they might downplay how big a threat their competition is, assuming that talking about competition at all will ruin the magic spell they’re trying to ...

There are a thousand different ways of telling the story of a startup in a pitch deck. The order of the slides can differ, the slides you choose to include can vary, and the aspects of the pitch you ...

A typical investor in a venture firm receives roughly 5,000 pitches in a year, and reads about 700 of them. They only spend 3 minutes scanning each deck, and may fund a handful of startups or none at ...