Pitch Deck Research

Since we have our final pitch to the Dragon's next Monday, I decided that for this week, we needed to research into how to ideally lay out and structure your pitch.

To do this, I began researching existing pitch-deck models. 

The sites I found showed a whole bunch of things to do, and a whole list of things not to do during your pitch. Some consisted of:

DO: 
- Tell a story and engage people emotionally
- Limit each slide to expressing one idea
- Prepare to make a great first impression
- Show the people behind your idea
- Keep a consistent look in presentation
- Know your metrics better than anyone (traction speaks louder than words)

DON'T:
- Don't use too many bullet points
- Don't make it too long
- Don't read word for word from a script
- Don't create text-rich, picture-poor presentation
- Don't come unprepared
- Don't use small fonts

There are a whole bunch of online examples and templates that we can use as inspiration, so that we know exactly what we need to include in our pitch's presentation:

It's helpful knowing all of these dos and don'ts, as it will enable us to have a killer presentation, and make sure we get our idea and business model across the best we can. For the final presentation, I want us to be able to read it all off by heart rather than reading it off a piece of paper or our phones.

I want it to be a professional pitch that really sells our idea.

-Blake