Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Matt Rubright, an operator turned banker at Silicon Valley Bank. Building an effective pitch deck is a unique topic of conversation in the startup ...

Q: When preparing to pitch investors, what are the slides you should include in your deck? A: In that first meeting, most investors need just 20 minutes to decide if your idea is something they’re ...

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. With so much riding on the outcome, ...

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In a lot of the pitch deck teardowns, I get stumped by a certain slide, even though I am 99% sure that when a founder uses it to pitch a VC, they will give a little bit of additional context that ...

Longtime friends Evan Baehr and Evan Loomis are the kind of entrepreneurs who learn lessons not only by doing things themselves, but also by studying others. Baehr is a co-founder at Able, an online ...

Carbon credits (and the trading thereof) is big business, but it can be needlessly complicated to get those resolved. Goodcarbon just raised a €5.25 million (around $5.5 million) round to put a dent ...

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When I sit down with new startup founders, most ask me about one thing: raising money. This is smart of them, because, as I’ve stated previously, fundraising needs to be one of the core competencies ...

Relief just raised a $2 million seed round led by Collaborative Ventures. The startup automates the debt relief process, negotiating consumers' outstanding credit card debt on their behalf. Here's the ...