The 3 Slides Entrepreneurs Need to Remove From Their Fundraising Pitch Decks Right Now

Most pitch decks have three useless slides that are making it harder to successfully raise capital

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A pitch deck for a fundraising entrepreneur is like an air tank for a scuba diver. Sure, you could technically attempt your job without it, but the end result won’t go particularly well.

Since every fundraising entrepreneur needs a pitch deck, it means every fundraising entrepreneur has to figure out what belongs in a pitch deck, and the way they do it is almost certainly some combination of the following four things:

1. Searching the Internet (Google/YouTube/Medium/etc.)
2. Watching other people give their pitches at pitch competitions
3. Getting trained in some sort of incubator/accelerator type of program
4. Watching Shark Tank and/or Dragon’s Den

Let’s throw out the last one. If you learned how to give fundraising pitches by watching reality TV, I can’t help you. In fact, nobody can. You’re a lost cause, and you’re never going to raise meaningful capital.

For everyone else who learned to give fundraising pitches using whatever combination of the other methods, your…