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Pitch decks we used to raise $1.1M

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Re: Pitch decks we used to raise $1.1M

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doctorpangloss wrote: post #6

"We use SEO to concentrate niche product conversions on our website." Seems briefer, more honest, and it's more obvious why that would make money. The people who ended up buying a creative stuff were going to do it anyway, and the people who were going to sell it do so slightly more often. Now they do it on your website, because a search led them there! The "Route to Market" slide changes are pretty funny. You're mic…

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doctorpangloss wrote: post #6

"We use SEO to concentrate niche product conversions on our website." Seems briefer, more honest, and it's more obvious why that would make money. The people who ended up buying a creative stuff were going to do it anyway, and the people who were going to sell it do so slightly more often. Now they do it on your website, because a search led them there! The "Route to Market" slide changes are pretty funny. You're mic…

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Post by alexbeloi »

My take is that it will become like upwork for creatives. Meaning, some amount of people will try it to land their first gig, and then immediately drop it when they get lowballed repeatedly or after they have a couple referrals. But there are a lot of eager freelancers to churn through.

They will be hated by everyone in the business and probably make boatloads of money.

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Post by ganoushoreilly »

throwasehasdwi wrote: post #12

All this tells me is that a slide deck matters little, if at all. There's hardly anything on these slides except some marketing bs. None of the graphs even show important metrics. I'm sure what was said when the deck was presented was far more influential

It's more about having the connections to pitch to the right investors. I think people see a pitch deck as the answer similarly to the mindset of presentations in business (powerpoint), often failing to realize the pitch is the pitch and the deck is a supplement. A well crafted deck is to support a well crafted pitch, not the other way around. A lot of want-reprenuers I've met haven't learned this and think flashy decks are the answer to good old fashion salesmanship.

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doctorpangloss wrote: post #6

"We use SEO to concentrate niche product conversions on our website." Seems briefer, more honest, and it's more obvious why that would make money. The people who ended up buying a creative stuff were going to do it anyway, and the people who were going to sell it do so slightly more often. Now they do it on your website, because a search led them there! The "Route to Market" slide changes are pretty funny. You're mic…

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Re: Pitch decks we used to raise $1.1M

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Post by stuartlogan »

throwasehasdwi wrote: post #12

All this tells me is that a slide deck matters little, if at all. There's hardly anything on these slides except some marketing bs. None of the graphs even show important metrics. I'm sure what was said when the deck was presented was far more influential

You're totally right, a deck alone won't do anything. This opens to door to speak to someone.

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Post by stuartlogan »

alexbeloi wrote: post #14

My take is that it will become like upwork for creatives. Meaning, some amount of people will try it to land their first gig, and then immediately drop it when they get lowballed repeatedly or after they have a couple referrals. But there are a lot of eager freelancers to churn through. They will be hated by everyone in the business and probably make boatloads of money.

We have mechanisms to stop Twine being a race to the bottom which I won't go into detail here.

I wanted to keep this is about the deck rather than our positioning and hope its helpful to someone.

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