Creating a Killer Early-Stage Pitch Deck for Angels & VCs.
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Assuming that one like myself (a) lives outside SV but can visit easily, (b) has past experience and moderate success bootstrapping, and (c) knows absolutely no one in the angel/VC circles ... how would you setup a 3 to 5-day visit to SV in order to pitch potential investors?
Will Ryan Spoon (who wrote this post) even reply to my email? Or is this advise only for those who are 2 degrees of separation from him?
If you don't know anyone, the best way to get intros is to do an incubator program. Regardless, people there are generally very nice and most will make intros pretty easily. But to do a 3-5 day blitz is extremely difficult even for people with huge rolodexes; especially if you're raising from VCs as the followup cycle can include up to a half-dozen meetings. And not meeting in person on those can hurt you because VCs care most about team. I would say AngelList is probably your best bet for that quick of a blitz, but it's probably best to budget a week and a half or more.
(and +1 to angellist, magic thing)
BTW, the original post title is simply: "Creating an Early Stage Pitch Deck"
"never give out your pitch deck"