I think six slides + an actual working MVP with some traction is probably the best proposition for first-time funding.
Keeping your deck to just six slides, when you have nothing else to show might not be the best idea.
Keeping your deck to just six slides, when you have nothing else to show might not be the best idea.
1. Team - Are the founders going to be able to grow the business, what have they built before.
2. Market - What is the market and how do you frame it. How big is this opportunity? Who are your partners, where are you distributed?
3. Economics - Sales projections, unit economics, how money would be spent (Hiring, marketing, etc.)
4. Competition - Are you aware of the competitors and what is your strategy to compete? How are people solving this problem now why are their solutions not good enough?
5. Pipeline - Your MVP is likely rough, how are you going to improve it? What is the timeline.
Obviously not needed for all projects, but if you need investment or to hook a 3rd party these questions are going to come up and are hard to communicate via product.
Definitely the case where software is part of a solution not the end all product. Key to have a deck for biz dev and other commercial situations.
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or Norvig:
and assumed I was making some random insult. I'm not.