The average venture capital investor will look at a pitch deck for 3 minutes and 44 seconds before deciding whether to meet with a new startup. For founders, the message is clear: Your pitch deck ...

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 ...

Among successful pitches, companies that presented the problem they were attempting to solve and their solution before getting to the specifics of their product were more successful than companies ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The number of startups and entrepreneur investments has grown drastically amid the uncertainty of the past few years. Although acquiring ...

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. Your slide deck should only have an exit strategy slide if you’re running a very late-stage company ...

Growth Warrior Capital is launching a new tool Elevo, an AI-powered pitch deck generator. The firm's managing partner, Promise Phelon, came up with the idea to help founders. Phelon plans to let any ...

One hundred and seventy seconds. Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at your deck. “Investors see a lot of ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Nate Bek on Jun 13, 2023 at 8:12 am ...