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Business Model Slide Pitch Deck Best Practices & Examples

Share your revenue generation strategy with a business model slide that highlights scalability, income streams, and your plan for profitability.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | February 5, 2025

Solution Slide Pitch Deck Best Practices and Examples

Showcase your innovative solution with a slide that explains how your product uniquely addresses critical challenges and provides real-world value.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | February 5, 2025

Competition Slide Pitch Deck Best Practices and Examples

Use a competition slide to highlight your position in the market, emphasizing unique advantages and how your startup outshines competitors.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | February 5, 2025

How to find startup ideas

Where do startup ideas come from? Is there a process? How does one even conceive of a startup idea? More importantly, how do you assess it?

Posted by Shaun Gold | February 2, 2025

14 ways to scam a founder raising funds

In this post, I'll break down 14 ways founders get scammed when raising funds. Because there are no VC scams, only poorly informed founders.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | February 2, 2025

How to raise funds with OpenVC

New on OpenVC? In 5 min, you will know exactly how to use OpenVC to raise funds for your startup. If you have questions, the answer is probably here.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | February 1, 2025

Evaluating competition as a VC

Venture capital is in the business of disruption. Naturally, the job of an investor necessarily includes evaluating how new startups will compete with existing incumbents. Learn how VCs think about competition in an uncertain environment.

Posted by Shaun Gold | January 29, 2025

The best startup pitch deck ever built

What does the perfect pitch deck look like? Well, we built it. We took the absolute best slides, we put the together, and we created a deck that no investor could pass - ever.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | January 29, 2025

How to build a startup pitch deck

This playbook is my home-made, battle-tested process to prepare the structure, content, and design of a typical early-stage startup pitch deck. These 2 hours of prep work will save you 10x more time down the road, I promise.

Posted by Stéphane Nasser | January 26, 2025