INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
And other secrets to a winning pitch deck, from DocSendRuss HeddlestonContributor
Russ is the cofounder and CEO of DocSend
He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at
Dropbox, Greystripe, and Trulia
Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsendMore posts by this contributorHundreds of billions of dollars in venture capital went into tech
startups last year, topping off huge growth this decade
ever, as more people build companies and try to get a slice of the funding opportunities.So it stands to reason that making your pitch deck
stand out is critical to raising a round
document sharing and tracking platform is used every day by thousands of startups to share their decks securely with investors, with visits
to pitch decks shared via DocSend having grown 4x from 2017 to 2018
users have shared over 2.2 million links through DocSend since we launched in 2014, and these documents have received over 220 million
Our product was still in private beta, and we had no revenue
However, we had an MVP and those who were using our product, including our potential investors, found the product to be very useful.