pitch deck
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2024 by Mike Maples, Jr. · across every show →
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Jul 7, 2024 negative
Maples: Answering every investor objection creates an obscure 'Franken deck'
“A lot of times, this is the other thing I see happen is the poor founder will get advice from 20 different people about their pitch deck. And a lot of the people giving them advice are not believers in that different future. They're giving generic startup advi…”
Jul 7, 2024 positive
Maples: Pitch slide one should explain what a startup does in plain English
“Slide one, you say what you do as if I literally know nothing. So it's not, we're Airbnb, we're a marketplace for unused residential housing space. Bad. But you'll get advice that says to do that because VCs think marketplaces are hot, residential real estate'…”