I like Kawasaki's formulation (particularly for Series A), and I often use it as an example, though it's just a "directionally accurate" thing.
For me, "10 slides" doesn't mean "exactly 10 slides" (most pitch decks aren't), but it does provide a guidepost for creating your deck, and reminds you not to reinvent the wheel. If you have 8 slides or 12 slides or something, you're fine. If you follow the same general story, you're fine.
But honestly? The deck is the easy part. Creating a business worth of creating a deck for is the hard part. 😂
Thanks, JDM. I appreciate your insights. I do believe our work is worth it. The tricky part is we're in a space where we have to think about the user of our services who partially pay, but then also get sharp (hence working on a pitch deck) at securing partners/sponsors to subsidize since who we serve are in the social sector. Anyway, always appreciate what you put out there.
When you say 10 slides, do you use the Kawasaki 10-slide pitch?
I like Kawasaki's formulation (particularly for Series A), and I often use it as an example, though it's just a "directionally accurate" thing.
For me, "10 slides" doesn't mean "exactly 10 slides" (most pitch decks aren't), but it does provide a guidepost for creating your deck, and reminds you not to reinvent the wheel. If you have 8 slides or 12 slides or something, you're fine. If you follow the same general story, you're fine.
But honestly? The deck is the easy part. Creating a business worth of creating a deck for is the hard part. 😂
Thanks, JDM. I appreciate your insights. I do believe our work is worth it. The tricky part is we're in a space where we have to think about the user of our services who partially pay, but then also get sharp (hence working on a pitch deck) at securing partners/sponsors to subsidize since who we serve are in the social sector. Anyway, always appreciate what you put out there.
Cool. If you ever want to bounce your ideas, throw me an email