Posts Tagged ‘Pitching’
Top 3 pitch deck mistakes founders make—and how to avoid them
You have a great idea for a business venture.
The market is ripe.
You’ve sacrificed countless hours and dollars to bring it this far.
It’s time to secure funding.
And you’ve been given an opportunity to speak with would-be investors.
Would you wing it and just talk “off the cuff”?
Would you want to know if you were handicapping yourself with your deck or your presentation somehow?
Since 2018, I’ve been coaching entrepreneurs/founders through the public speaking aspect of preparing to pitch their ideas for funding. And I see the same mistakes again and again: entrepreneurs unnecessarily impeding the investors’ ability to see the merit of their idea. These are entirely preventable errors that are easily fixed, smoothing the path to successful fundraising efforts.
Read MoreThe problem with most pitch decks (and presentations of all kinds)
Probably more than 90% of the entrepreneurs I help prepare to pitch for funding make the same mistake. (Frankly, more than 90% of all presentations make this mistake.) In a practice session with an entrepreneur this week, it surfaced immediately, on the second slide… and all those that followed.
The problem?
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