The Ultimate Guide to Pitching your Startup (Pitch Decks, VC Meetings, Due Diligence)

I get a lot of the same questions about startup pitches to investors over and over, and I’ve yet to actually find a single Youtube video that covers how to pitch to investors holistically, from creating your pitch deck, running the pitch meeting itself, to following up after.

In this video, we'll dig deep into a standard pitch deck outline (using YouTube's original pitch deck as a template!), storytelling best practices, tips for how to best run your pitch meetings, and suggested followup actions after finishing the pitch.

0:00 Intro
0:59 Storytelling
2:35 Creating your Pitch Deck
9:16 Running the Pitch Meeting
11:04 Following Up
12:32 Managing your Psychology

[PitchBlocks]

It's incredible how much high-quality content you managed to pack into a video!! Thanks for doing this!

[KvanderHolyfield]

Incredibly informative, comprehensive, and practical. Can't wait to see more videos!

[davidpudwill]

Wayne - this video is great!! Thanks for putting it all together!

[alexander]

Thank you so much, Wayne! Great video! No fluff. Nothing but value in every word and sentence. ❤️

[jyotisood]

I can't believe how relevant and helpful this is to the product deck I'm currently working on. Thanks for all the great tips and keep the content coming!

[sgpsimonb]

Great advice. I’ve been told of a myriad of deck formats over the years and all have had an element of ‘argument from personal experience’. Your format resonates more with me than all the others so far. Rewriting my deck starts after posting this comment! Thank you!

[nahayomoses]

Congz upon the excellent presentation and sharing of ideas. I have really learnt alot. 👊👊👊👊

[dr.michaellittle]

Love your videos. This is my new favorite channel 👏👏👏👏👏

[myprideable]

I love those videos with details and real life examples. You are becoming one of my favorite start up youtubers to watch now along with Garry Tan and Justin Kan. With a couple more videos I think your youtube is gonna blowup and go to the moon 🚀🚀🚀🌕🌕🌕

[alysiawu]

Thanks for sharing, very helpful content and guidance for my prep for first round raise. Looking forward to more content!!

[FreelanceMVP]

Super video Wayne. I agree with a lot of what you were saying - and STRONGLY disagree with what you presented on some other points! Create controversy, right?

[winwinsri]

Outstanding From AtoZ needs of a founder! pls do more. thanks.

[faye]

Hi Wayne. This is really high quality content. Thank you very much for sharing those.

[farahbarre]

Absolutely top notch content Wayne! Networking is one of the great challenges in today's lockdowns for entrepreneurs, specially us here in SE Asia reliving 2020. Intrigued by SignalFire's model, do you target SE Asia?

[georgegoognin]

Thanks for the video!

The most tricky thing is to get some PayPal mafia folks to the Team slide :)

Many VCs (and top accelerators) explicitly prefer to engage primarily with founders with exits experiences or at least ex-C-levels at hot companies. So how can the rest, 99.999% of the world's founders, stand out? Only traction? It's okay, but it would be nice to outline it.

[martinwalsh]

Hi. Just wondering what tool/software you used for creating the video? Thanks

[alexagui]

Looking for how to pitch B2G business model I found your channel and only I can say it’s great because has a lot of work and detailed words to express your content. But I can’t find any hack about refining my pitch idea . Any chance to hear from you a tip about that?. P.S. already subscribed

[JoshConstine]

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[Blacksun]

Super useful as I was working on structuring my pitch. Thank you. 🫶