The Ultimate Guide to Pitching your Startup (Pitch Decks, VC Meetings, Due Diligence)
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- I get a lot of the same questions about startup pitches to investors over and over, and I’ve yet to actually find a single RUclips video that covers how to pitch to investors holistically, from creating your pitch deck, running the pitch meeting itself, to following up after.
In this video, we'll dig deep into a standard pitch deck outline (using RUclips's original pitch deck as a template!), storytelling best practices, tips for how to best run your pitch meetings, and suggested followup actions after finishing the pitch.
0:00 Intro
0:59 Storytelling
2:35 Creating your Pitch Deck
9:16 Running the Pitch Meeting
11:04 Following Up
12:32 Managing your Psychology
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It's incredible how much high-quality content you managed to pack into a video!! Thanks for doing this!
Thanks so much Viki! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great advice. I’ve been told of a myriad of deck formats over the years and all have had an element of ‘argument from personal experience’. Your format resonates more with me than all the others so far. Rewriting my deck starts after posting this comment! Thank you!
You’re welcome - thanks for the kind note!
Wayne - this video is great!! Thanks for putting it all together!
Thanks so much David!! So good to hear from you :)
I can't believe how relevant and helpful this is to the product deck I'm currently working on. Thanks for all the great tips and keep the content coming!
Glad it was helpful!!
Incredibly informative, comprehensive, and practical. Can't wait to see more videos!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I love those videos with details and real life examples. You are becoming one of my favorite start up youtubers to watch now along with Garry Tan and Justin Kan. With a couple more videos I think your youtube is gonna blowup and go to the moon 🚀🚀🚀🌕🌕🌕
Thanks so much Alex, I really appreciate the support!! I'll be posting more content soon, hope everyone likes it!
Congz upon the excellent presentation and sharing of ideas. I have really learnt alot. 👊👊👊👊
Thank you so much, glad to hear!!
Super video Wayne. I agree with a lot of what you were saying - and STRONGLY disagree with what you presented on some other points! Create controversy, right?
Thanks so much Evan! Love the debate. What did you disagree with?
Thank you so much, Wayne! Great video! No fluff. Nothing but value in every word and sentence. ❤️
Thank you so much Alexander! Very glad you found it helpful!
@@nogatekeepers Absolutely, Wayne! Your videos definitely stand out. 🏆 You keep it crisp and clear. I discovered your channel about two weeks ago and have been a huge fan ever since. Thanks!
@@alexander3845 Aww thanks! Excited to release more content soon!
Keep posting quality content!
Thanks Tony! More on the way next Thursday :)
Outstanding From AtoZ needs of a founder! pls do more. thanks.
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful! Working on some more…
Another solid video!!
Thanks Ernesto!
More to come!
Thanks for sharing, very helpful content and guidance for my prep for first round raise. Looking forward to more content!!
Very glad it was helpful Alysia! Will be sharing more videos soon!
Love your videos. This is my new favorite channel 👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks so much for the very kind comment!!
Hi Wayne. This is really high quality content. Thank you very much for sharing those.
Thanks Faye! Glad you found this helpful!
Thanks for the video!
The most tricky thing is to get some PayPal mafia folks to the Team slide :)
Many VCs (and top accelerators) explicitly prefer to engage primarily with founders with exits experiences or at least ex-C-levels at hot companies. So how can the rest, 99.999% of the world's founders, stand out? Only traction? It's okay, but it would be nice to outline it.
Thanks for dropping the nice note and the question! I agree that a lot of VCs back pedigree or previous founding experience. I think in lieu of that traction as you mention is the simplest way to standout, but it's perhaps also possible to do so with a demonstrated pace of learning/iteration (e.g. very fast product launches and clear early signs of strong engagement even if not huge scale yet) or unique insights and knowing a problem space better than others
Absolutely top notch content Wayne! Networking is one of the great challenges in today's lockdowns for entrepreneurs, specially us here in SE Asia reliving 2020. Intrigued by SignalFire's model, do you target SE Asia?
Thanks Farah!! We unfortunately do not, since we don't have anyone native to the SE Asia ecosystem on the team. I'm personally very bullish on tech in the region and broadly outside of Silicon Valley though!
@@nogatekeepers cool, pls consider coming here with your model, terrific opportunities over here and a great life! No need for a native in the team, just dive in and the tech ecosystem is pretty compact in each country, happy to help with the Philippines, I miss SF/Bay Area but found my heart in SE Asia :)
@@farahbarre2028 Very glad to hear you found a home in the Philippines :) I know there will be some fantastic startup companies built there!
Looking for how to pitch B2G business model I found your channel and only I can say it’s great because has a lot of work and detailed words to express your content. But I can’t find any hack about refining my pitch idea . Any chance to hear from you a tip about that?. P.S. already subscribed
Thanks Alex for the kind comment! What do you mean by B2G?
Oh no, OpenSea might hit the $1B revenue before 5 years. Launched in Dec 2017!
Ah you’re right! It’s a brave new web3 world :)
How much should a CEO pay himself?
Tricky question - in my opinion depends on a lot of factors: the company stage, the amount of capital raised and the amount of runway you have, how much revenue/cash the company is generating, how much equity you own in your company, and personal factors which have to be considered as well. A good topic for another video! I see anywhere from 25-100k for Silicon Valley founders at the seed stage.
I'm going to start shooting this video in the next couple weeks!
Super useful as I was working on structuring my pitch. Thank you. 🫶
Glad to hear it was useful!!