Makes it sounds like these days you sell Pitch Decks to investors, not businesses
Piccsy Pitchdeck
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Re: Piccsy Pitchdeck
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Team has no apparent prior company operations experience, let alone M&A success. The advisors do have M&A experience, and that may well be why they have them. Two of the team founded a company called Moxy, so they'll have some operations experience. Not everyone needs it to start up and an investor should look at the details, not the flashy site. > "Technical" team member isn't a "founder". I'm not aware that this…
I promise: no snark intended with this question, but I don't know a better way to ask it: does starting a design shop count as company operations experience in startupland? Totally prepared for the answer to be "yes". And clearly there are design shops that have become serious companies, with growth trajectories, quarterly and yearly revenue forecasts, employee turnover, the whole nine yards. Is Moxy one?
I totally see where you're coming from on this, but I think you're placing an awful lot of importance on things that might not be that important.
I'd say starting a design shop could count as company ops experience, but not everyone who starts a startup has experience. Indeed, people start up without experience all the time. From the looks of the presentation they have an MVP, have users and have burned through less money than they're asking for (although the details we don't know).
I don't know enough about Moxy to tell whether or not that's yes, but I would say it might not be wholly necessary and would be down to the investor to decide.
Re: Piccsy Pitchdeck
#43If I can get on my soapbox for a second (and let me know if this isn't cool - I just like pointing people towards more effective products), I'd like to call attention to http://www.lookwork.com , which was designed and developed by Ben & Eric of Svpply fame quite a few years ago using the jQuery Masonry that people seem to think is Pinterest's bread and butter. You can follow friends, tag images, add your own feeds a…
Is Pinterest using Masonry? It's not listed on the Masonry site as a reference.
Why does it cost 5$?
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#44Always when I see such exceptional HTML based pitch decks (the last one was from a wedding thing, don't know the name anymore) I am on the fence: They look so damn good and for sure you get attention en masse (today you should get 20K from HN and many VC related people). BUT: - Isn't this a hell of work? A good JS/frontend guy should need at least one or rather two weeks? Please tell us how many people did this gem o…
Thanks for the Yes, it is a lot of work. Creative Director + Copywriter + Art Director/Designer + Developer.
The deck is dynamic, we can change it pretty easy. And/or, we can present with Keynote or whatever else alternatively in person.
We want to make as many VCs aware of our upcoming raise as possible. This seemed like a smart way to do it :)
Re: Piccsy Pitchdeck
#45Always when I see such exceptional HTML based pitch decks (the last one was from a wedding thing, don't know the name anymore) I am on the fence: They look so damn good and for sure you get attention en masse (today you should get 20K from HN and many VC related people). BUT: - Isn't this a hell of work? A good JS/frontend guy should need at least one or rather two weeks? Please tell us how many people did this gem o…
I believe you're referring to http://investors.dressrush.com/
Also a great deck, the inspiration to create ours!
Re: Piccsy Pitchdeck
#46If I can get on my soapbox for a second (and let me know if this isn't cool - I just like pointing people towards more effective products), I'd like to call attention to http://www.lookwork.com , which was designed and developed by Ben & Eric of Svpply fame quite a few years ago using the jQuery Masonry that people seem to think is Pinterest's bread and butter. You can follow friends, tag images, add your own feeds a…
My favorite image bookmarking site today is designspiration.
Different strokes. The deck shows the direction we're going. Anyone will be able to create any stream. So, you'll be able to aggregate all of the quality images you want :)
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#47If I can get on my soapbox for a second (and let me know if this isn't cool - I just like pointing people towards more effective products), I'd like to call attention to http://www.lookwork.com , which was designed and developed by Ben & Eric of Svpply fame quite a few years ago using the jQuery Masonry that people seem to think is Pinterest's bread and butter. You can follow friends, tag images, add your own feeds a…
Is Pinterest using Masonry? It's not listed on the Masonry site as a reference. Why does it cost 5$?
It might not be Masonry, but I've noticed that any site that uses that method of floating content is automatically compared to Pinterest.
I'd assume it's $5 because it took some effort to build and there's no other means of revenue for the time being. The homepage doesn't really do the rest of the experience justice, but the whole thing is really clean and not nearly as distracting from the actual content it claims it is highlighting like Pinterest/Piccsy/Snip.it/Cubbi.es/etc.
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#48Always when I see such exceptional HTML based pitch decks (the last one was from a wedding thing, don't know the name anymore) I am on the fence: They look so damn good and for sure you get attention en masse (today you should get 20K from HN and many VC related people). BUT: - Isn't this a hell of work? A good JS/frontend guy should need at least one or rather two weeks? Please tell us how many people did this gem o…
Thanks for the Yes, it is a lot of work. Creative Director + Copywriter + Art Director/Designer + Developer. The deck is dynamic, we can change it pretty easy. And/or, we can present with Keynote or whatever else alternatively in person. We want to make as many VCs aware of our upcoming raise as possible. This seemed like a smart way to do it :)
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#49Always when I see such exceptional HTML based pitch decks (the last one was from a wedding thing, don't know the name anymore) I am on the fence: They look so damn good and for sure you get attention en masse (today you should get 20K from HN and many VC related people). BUT: - Isn't this a hell of work? A good JS/frontend guy should need at least one or rather two weeks? Please tell us how many people did this gem o…
Thanks for the Yes, it is a lot of work. Creative Director + Copywriter + Art Director/Designer + Developer. The deck is dynamic, we can change it pretty easy. And/or, we can present with Keynote or whatever else alternatively in person. We want to make as many VCs aware of our upcoming raise as possible. This seemed like a smart way to do it :)
Ok, so you know what you do ;-)
So keep us updated how many VC approached you cold/via intro because of the HTML pitch
> The deck is dynamic,
Just the text content or is everything easily changeable (animations, obejct types, etc.)?
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#50Blinking team profile pictures are a really nice touch!
Thanks, this is one of my favorite parts!