What makes a deck work? Teardowns, templates, and investor commentary on the slides that get meetings and the ones that get archived.
58 min
Hustle Fund GP Elizabeth Yin takes live pitches from real founders and gives unfiltered feedback in real time, explaining her actual investment thought process as she reacts to each pitch.
1h 26m
Long-form conversation with Upfront Ventures' Mark Suster on how to pitch VCs, why he dislikes demo days, what separates the best founders, and how Series A decisions really get made inside a firm.
47 min
Michael Seibel's SaaStr session on pitching a seed-stage startup: the exact structure of a two-minute pitch, the most common ways founders confuse investors, and live Q&A with founders in the room.
An Australian health-tech founder walks through raising a $5M seed round led by Blackbird: how the process ran, what materials mattered, and what surprised them.
53 min
Jenny Lefcourt walks through her 'ultimate pitch' framework slide by slide, showing exactly what a seed VC wants in each part of the deck and the meeting.
6 min
Seibel contrasts pitching investors with pitching customers: investors buy the upside story and the market, customers buy the solution — and mixing the two kills both.
27 min
YC's Kevin Hale on pitch construction: clarity, the 'legible, obvious, conductive' framework, and live rewrites of muddled startup one-liners.
36 min
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, VCs give live unrehearsed feedback on audience members' actual pitch decks, disagreeing with each other about what works.
25 min
Hustle Fund reviews a real startup's deck slide by slide, narrating the investor's inner monologue and cataloging the seven mistakes they see most at pre-seed and seed.
27 min
Founders pitch live at Startup Summit and get immediate teardown feedback from a founder-turned-GP, covering deck structure, delivery, and fundability.
VC Peter Harris rips apart a real pitch deck for Appointment.com on camera, slide by slide, explaining what he'd need to see to invest.
4 min
NFX's James Currier maps the four types of pitch decks and the six things a VC must know by the end of any of them.
3 min
First Round's Bill Trenchard on pitch deck structure: ordering slides to build conviction and where most decks lose the room.
56 min
Startup Boston bootcamp on raising a seed round: process design, materials, investor targeting, and Q&A with local founders and investors.
23 min
Seedcamp's Carlos Espinal teaches raising capital at Slush's founder school, drawing on his book 'Fundraising Field Guide' and hundreds of Seedcamp deals.
AIVA TECH co-founder Lucia Mari Sanguino details raising a $1.5M pre-seed: the funnel, the materials, investor objections, and how the round finally assembled.