“We don’t have competitors,” some founders say. Or they might downplay how big a threat their competition is, assuming that talking about competition at all will ruin the magic spell they’re trying to ...

Carbon credits (and the trading thereof) is big business, but it can be needlessly complicated to get those resolved. Goodcarbon just raised a €5.25 million (around $5.5 million) round to put a dent ...

CommandBar, a B2B tool designed to make software easier to use, closed a $4.8 million raise in 2021 with one of the most starkly minimalist decks I've ever seen. The deck only has seven slides and is ...

Each and every slide is important. Yet, if you only have time to really nail and improve on some of them before your next investor meeting, which ones do you focus on? Decks seem to be shrinking. It’s ...

When I sit down with new startup founders, most ask me about one thing: raising money. This is smart of them, because, as I’ve stated previously, fundraising needs to be one of the core competencies ...

The pitch deck is a presentation that entrepreneurs put together when seeking a round of financing from investors. On average pitch decks have no more than 19 slides. As described in my book, The Art ...

Everyone knows first impressions matter, but you might not realize how much that first handshake impacts your future progress with investors and clients. The human brain gives a lot of weight to that ...