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Today, we will look at a seed deck from Stakester used to raise $2M.
Standard cover slide that had little to no effort put into it. This slogan would look great on a website but it tells investors very little about what the company does or why they should continue reading.
This “philosophy” slide is a lesser version of a perspective framer. However, it does still achieve the same purpose of helping investors interpret the rest of the deck in a manner that benefits the company.
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This is a unique problem slide; the 5 different problems are definitely too much. None seem big or important enough when you list them like this. There should be 3 specific problems max.
If you have 5 problems but 4 solutions that immediately raises red flags. Your solution slide needs to mirror your problem slide. This difference will “distract” investors and diminish the impact of your pitch.
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The sudden change in design here is jarring. Split design decks work amazingly well when you use one design for the “problem” slides to open the deck and another design for the “solution” slides towards the end. A random change however is distracting.
Swapping back to the original design here makes the design change in the previous slide look even worse. The numbers here are so big and lack so much context that they lose their credibility.
You can’t just claim that something has community growth or is inherently viral; you have to support those two things with evidence.
Honestly, I’m shocked this company was funded. I was sufficiently concerned that it received funding that I added its investors to my red flag list to warn any clients actively approached by them. The company has gone under, and it’s really not a surprise, given the huge gaps in this deck.
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