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One of the underappreciated benefits of crossovers entering venture is the professionalization of early stage. the # of VCs that were high and mighty around deck formatting, round timing, and narrative structure represented the least productive barrier of entry imaginable
> seed stage firms literally were (and still are!) running massive media brands to teach founders how to format a deck to pitch them. enter 2021 and I haven’t seen a seed or an A get done with a meaningful deck in a year
Obviously self-interested, and perhaps bio is different, but decks are still pretty important at A/B. TBH, it's less the formatting – like you need to have X,Y, and Z slides – and more the tenor of the story they're telling. The surviorship bias of funded founders is strong.
Put another way, you can get by with much less than you used to as a founder, but most of the roaring successes either have strong metrics or are telling a *tight* story.
just tell me what the fuck you are building in a one page memo and we're in business-- even better do it in a notion with links.
I feel a seething rage whenever I see a deal killed by an MD due formatting. Way too many labor hours of high human capital workers have been wasted on unnecessary formatting
the best A’s are pre-empted, have been
Few understand
Eh, I still only fund if there's a deck ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m with Delian. If you have a strong product and an idea for where the business could go you can throw together a deck in short order. Doesn’t need to be pretty but I want to see some structure to a founder’s plan.
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