Video by sammrchant

As someone who receives over 100 pitch decks a week, I can guarantee you're probably thinking about startup pitch decks wrong. See, the mistake most startup founders make is that they think they need to get all of the information about their startup across in the pitch deck and that it should be a document that's full of detail and full of information for an investor. You see,

the problem with this is it assumes that the pitch deck gets you the check and that's just not the case. The more pitch decks I receive and the more fundraisers I do, the more I realize that the pitch deck serves one purpose and that's to get you on a call with an investor. When you think about it

like that it fundamentally changes the information that you put in the pitch deck and the way that you share it with an investor. Everything you put in the pitch deck should give an investor just enough to get excited but leave just enough off the table that they have to ask questions and they

want you to get on a call. So while we're in this summer period and apparently all of the investors are away on holiday I'd encourage you to go back through your pitch deck look at the information and ask yourself, if I read this, would I want to get on a call with this founder?

If you think that having a pitch deck template would help you, comment deck on this post and I'll DM you my one for free.