The Understanding of Pitch Deck for Startups.

Before launching a business, you must plan it, prepare a pitch deck, and draw out a startup flowchart. In this deck, you will outline your ideas for how the business will be organised, run, and serve clients.

Definition:

A pitch deck is a graphic representation of a company proposal or plan. It's a platform that helps entrepreneurs articulate their vision, attract financing, and fine-tune their approach.

What is a pitch deck?

A pitch deck is a succinct presentation that gives a summary of the idea, product, and business. Professional companies, startups, and entrepreneurs usually use it to present their ventures to possible partners, investors, and customers. The purpose of a pitch deck presentation is to clearly convey important details about startups and businesses in order to gain support, funding, and cooperation.

What is the appearance of a pitch deck?

There are numerous methods to create a pitch deck, but most will look the same: a 10–20 slide presentation with brand colours and images showing mood, a product, or data.

Why would someone use a pitch deck?

A pitch deck's primary goal is to attract the interest of potential investors. The main issue with a pitch deck is not being dismissed immediately, but rather securing investor buy-in.

It's a widespread misconception that a pitch deck is intended to persuade investors to invest in your startup, project, or business idea, but this is still a long way off. You must first be considered for evaluation.

Every investor or venture capitalist has their own investment criteria, and because investors are inundated with requests for money, they are attempting to dismiss you based on those criteria.

Who requires a pitch deck?

Startup founders and entrepreneurs use pitch decks to demonstrate their high growth potential and rapid business scaling strategy in order to secure investment for their enterprises.

Who doesn't require a pitch deck?

If any of the following are not thoroughly worked out, you do not require a pitch deck:

• A Business Model
• Market Analysis
• Competitive Analysis
• Costs of building your business
• A growth plan
• A GTM Strategy (Go-To-Market)
• If your firm is too niche, you don't need a pitch deck.
• If you can secure funding for your business independently, you don't need a pitch deck.

What does a pitch deck include?

1. Introduction
2. Why Choose Us
3. Our Vision and Our Mission
4. Problem
5. Solution
6. U.S.P (Unique Selling Product)
7. Services we provide
8. Market Size
9. Target Customers / Market
10. Scale-Up Strategy
11. Revenue Model
12. Business Model
13. RoadMap
14. Competitors
15. Financials
16. Marketing Plan
17. Other Investors
18. Promoters
19. Team
20. Get In Touch

How to style a pitch deck.

• Keep it simple
• Start with compelling opening slide
• Visualize data & Statistics
• Use charts to emphasize numbers
• Use icons to simplify text
• Use tiled layouts to break down information
• Use timeline to chart milestones
• Use a word cloud to represent market trends
• Use an XY Graph to Compare competitors

What makes a good pitch deck?

A strong pitch deck is concise and direct. Make it obvious to your investors what you can provide them and why they should care. Any assertions you make should be supported by concrete evidence, which you should then compile into an engaging story.

A strong pitch deck should demonstrate an in-depth understanding of your market and industry while communicating in a language that even someone with little knowledge of your field can grasp.

Pitch decks that perform best depict:

• This is exactly what we are doing.
• This is how we intend to proceed.
• We can do better if we obtain some money.
• This thing is going to happen with or without you
• Do you want to be in or out?