“We don’t have competitors,” some founders say. Or they might downplay how big a threat their competition is, assuming that talking about competition at all will ruin the magic spell they’re trying to ...

There’s a godawful number of pitch deck templates out there, and there’s one thing that most of them get wrong: They forget to mention that the template is (meant to be) flexible. For some companies, ...

A typical investor in a venture firm receives roughly 5,000 pitches in a year, and reads about 700 of them. They only spend 3 minutes scanning each deck, and may fund a handful of startups or none at ...

Startups frequently prepare a “pitch deck” to present their company to prospective angel or venture capital investors. The pitch deck typically consists of 15-20 slides in a PowerPoint presentation ...

Among successful pitches, companies that presented the problem they were attempting to solve and their solution before getting to the specifics of their product were more successful than companies ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The pitch deck is a unique beast: Once it’s created, it’s never static. As you grow, your deck will evolve alongside you. Since it’s ever ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The number of startups and entrepreneur investments has grown drastically amid the uncertainty of the past few years. Although acquiring ...