It won’t be easy to fit everything you want to say into fifteen slides—to make it flow in one smooth narrative, to make it compelling emotionally and rationally, to keep it high-level enough so that people can easily grasp the important points but not so high-level that it seems like you haven’t dug into the details. It’s an art. As with all art, it takes practice. You’ll probably suck at it at first. Pitching is hard. You’ll need to constantly tune the deck up, change it around, tweak and revise. So you don’t want your first pitch to be in front of the very top VC in your area. VCs talk to
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