Tag Archives: pitch deck

How to Make Effective Presentation Slides: 5 Smart Strategies | All Business

Though the tech we use in our corporate day-to-day has changed a lot in the past decade, one central business practice remains the same: the presentation. In today’s corporate world, most information, sales, and important decisions are still made in meetings with presentations, either face-to-face or online. And while some important presentations, like investment pitches or important sales decks, warrant hiring a professional presentation designer, most of us still create our slides ourselves.

That’s where these practical strategies come in. They are tried and tested techniques used by seasoned presentation designers—and they don’t require any design skills!

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How to Think Like an Investor When Preparing Your Pitch Deck | Entrepreneur

Key Takeaways:

  • It’s getting tougher to win global investment, and your pitch deck can turn it around.
  • Understanding the investor’s perspective is key to crafting a successful pitch deck, as the future of global fundraising is likely to be even more interconnected and competitive.

Startups are no longer confined to their local markets for fundraising. In the last decade, global venture capital (VC) investment in the startup ecosystem surged from $347 billion in 2010 across 31,623 deals to $671 billion in 2021 across 38,644 deals.

Startups are looking for more than just cold monetary transactions to fuel their growth and global exposure.

Today, successful startup fundraising boils down to one single most important thing: the pitch deck. It’s still the golden ticket for startups to secure both local and global VC funding. However, there are strategic differences between these two.

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