Am I the only one who feels like a search focused business like this that presents itself well and is taking 20% (!) commission might be more an incentive to invest than the pitch deck?
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#42My 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.
What are your mechanisms for this?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your pitch deck will get you meetings, not investment. No one invests from only seeing a pitch deck. From speaking with investors, we learned about better ways to get across what we are doing. What the key ares that interested investors, etc. Most of that we learned was from the actual conversation rather than specific feedback on the deck. On a side note, the first version of this deck makes me slightly embarrassed.…
"Even the "final" version does because the company has evolved since we closed our investment round." Do your investors find that concerning at all?
I think they would be more concerned if we didn't evolve. For example, Twitter isn't just an SMS service anymore
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What are your mechanisms for this?
This article explains it:
http://tech.co/twines-ceo-creative-marketplace-brings-qualit...
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#47When did the transition occur from success and profit mattering to $$ raised being the most important metric? So many startups today brag about $ raised before they even mention what they do. Is this really the new norm?
I totally agree that money raised is irrelevant. The hope was our journey can be useful to others.
The hard work is just beginning.
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#48I'm overwhelmed by the noisy design of the blog. The pitch decks, what visitors want to see, are a tiny, 430px wide embed under the fold. There is a huge header image, left floating side bar, a large right sidebar, then a floating ad, then a slide-in form in the bottom right partway through the page. This all makes for a distracted reading experience.
You can view it directly here:
slideshare.net/stuartlogan2002/the-pitch-deck-we-used-to-raise-over-1-million