Crowdfunding Review – Violet – A ‘smart home’ dashboard for all your devices
It’s another Crowdcube Pitch Review! The point of this is to give BOTH founders and crowd investors some perspective on what ‘professional’ investors think when evaluating projects to invest in. For founders, the intention is to give some advice and framework on what to include and what not to include when crafting a crowdfunding pitch. […]
COLD READ – Personal Fav – Sexual Health Products
Ah here we are! Time for another dish of brutal honesty on someone’s #pitch deck. My friends, it’s a Cold Read. This time we have the US-based ‘Personal Fav Co.’ – a range of sex-related products aiming at making good-ole love-making’ a safe, pleasurable, and adventurous thing. Now, subject matter aside, let’s discuss the #pitchdeck. […]
Cold Read – Musiervsal – Some kind of decentralised music studio concept
This pitch deck is a goldmine of examples on how to get an investor to spend a lot of time on your pitch deck, but also how to really piss an investor off with over-hyping to-a-fault the problem/solution alongside proposing a rather naive fundraise strategy For those who don’t know, a ‘cold read’ is where […]
Cold Read – Rockids – a reading-trainer application for young children with dyslexia
Now this is an *excellent* example of an early-stage/pre-seed pitch deck. Like… really… wowsers! It’s often too easy to show/share things that people do badly – but if it’s not counter-balanced with sharing what people do right, then what’s the point, eh?! Here we have Rockids – a reading-trainer application for young children with dyslexia. […]
Cold Read – MeliorAI – a set of AI models used to help organise high-volume documents
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. #founders!!! NEVER EVER DO THIS! I felt compelled to create a cold read based on an unsolicited email from one of those ‘fundraise broker companies’. Now, a good broker company – if the founders are just starting out – can be a helpful thing. I’m not anti […]
Cold Read – Tickets for Good
PITCH DECK COLD READ TIME! Here we have a fine example of a founder attempting to create a new and novel kind of #pitchdeck , but it failing totally and miserably 🙁 Watch the video to see how… Oh dear 🙁 In this Cold Read, we have Tickets for Good – an events ticket reseller […]
Crowdcube Pitch Review – Howbout – August 2022 (Full Version)
This is the full version review of the Howbout pitch deck on Crowdcube (https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/h…) In short, a good deck – but 4 really important unanswered questions… 1) How do they see investors getting a return? It’s not clear in their financial model 2) User growth – numbers are good but only if it’s retention 3) […]
Crowdfunding Pitch Review – Montvel – A French-made Pellet Barbeque (Full Version)
This time around on our ‘Q&A for Crowdcube’ series, we have Montvel – a BBQ & Pellet Fuel company from France. Now, to some, not the most glamerous of industries/products – but you can be sure that, until the Star Trek replicator is invented, people will always spend money on home-cooking. So, glamerous or not, […]
Cold Read – Renkap – Construction Industry Pre-site Survey Tech
This one is a beauty of a cold read. What we have, across 5 minutes, is some of the best things to do in a pitch deck, and some of worse. Here’s my ‘ranking’ of this deck: If I were a VC: I’d have to say no and not take the intro 🙁If I were […]
Cold Read – Measurevent – a ‘impact analytics’ company for live events
Aaaaaaaaaaand here we go again! This time it’s a pre-seed company called ‘Measurevent’ cofounded by local Chilean, Félix Barros . This deck is a beauty… it has a fantastic example of how to open a pitch deck to build confidence and interest (woo!) but it also is a fantastic example of what NOT to do […]