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
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
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
That’s right, founderlings! There’s too much advice out there telling you how to ‘pitch’ – but nowhere near enough telling you how to ‘talk’. I’ve attempted to condense my 13 years of startup fundraising experience into a short and snappy
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
Hello chums. When a founder ‘raises money’ through investment, they’re essentially inviting another individual or company to become another *owner* of their startup. Obviously, for the privilege (and I really do mean that word – privilege), they pay a price
Hello fellow founderlings. Startup fundraising is a tricky thing at the best of times. But a common error from my observation is that founders attempt to speak a language that isn’t their own. They often believe it’s important to ‘speak
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
Raising investment is hard. But I believe it’s hard because people follow too much advice on *how* to raise money, instead of asking for advice on *why* people invest in startups in the first place. it’s a big topic –
Ah. Fundraising. A commonly misunderstood topic. In today’s small little nugget, I make the comparison that fundraising is like using money to change your project’s momentum. Momentum is made up of ‘stuff’, ‘speed’ and a ‘direction’. When you fundraise, you
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
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
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
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
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
This time, it’s Antill – founded by former The Rattle team member, Gigi Piscitelli! Now, usually, I try and make sure I have no prior knowledge of the startup before recording my cold read. But on this occasion, I already
Decibels – a hearing enhancement technology company. I had never seen this deck nor know anything about the company before seeing this deck. Where this deck fails is that there is a discrepancy between the problem the company Decibels is
Here’s how to read past the BS on #Crowdfunding #pitch pages. How Crowdfunding is gamed, and how it works behind the scenes. I share what I look out for when I’m looking to invest, what I ignore, but more importantly – WHY
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