Founders

Welcome to the first Founder's channel Office Hours!

What's on your mind?

I'll kick things off (from an angel investor perspective).

I'm always surprised by 2 things:

1. Founders fundraising who don't use this format for their deck

https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/sequoia-capital-pitchdecktemplate

2. Pre-Series B founders that don't send regular investor updates.

Deck 1 10/10

https://www.reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/

https://www.slideshare.net/kambosu/uber-pitch-deck

Deck 1 10/10

https://www.reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/

https://www.slideshare.net/kambosu/uber-pitch-deck

https://www.slideshare.net/BrianArmstrong29/coinbase-seed-round-pitch-deck

How much does the quality of the deck matter? 

To illustrate, which is better? 
Deck 1 — A+ content in all text and product screenshots
Deck 2 — masterfully designed, bells & whistles, B- content

Cycle optimizer ✨, fledgeling founder 🐣, decent mom 🏆

Founder of Embody 

Talk to me about your period. 🩸

I was just told by an investor that our product wasn't 'crypto enough'. How do Web2 apps with DeSoc dreams break into the Web3 investor pool?

TIL there's youtube-dl for slideshare https://ssslideshare.com/