You know what really sucks? Your IoT devices not being able to phone home. Rarely a problem when you’re in the center of a well-populated urban center with oodles of cell towers, but think of that water temperature buoy floating around in the Atlantic, an autonomous drone flying above the rain forest or a glacier-creep […]
Bill Reichert Contributor More posts by this contributor Interest Rates, Unicorns And What The Fed Means To Silicon Valley Every pitch deck needs to have a “Market” slide. Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs get the market slide wrong. That’s not necessarily their fault. The fault lies in the pitch coaching industry that insists that every deck include […]
David K Smith Contributor David Smith is VP of data and analytics at TheVentureCity, a global early-stage venture fund investing in product-centric startups across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Of every 100 deals a VC firm considers, about a quarter get a meeting, and only one ends up securing investment. Given the downturn in […]
I get a lot of pitch deck submissions for this ZebethMedia Pitch Deck Teardown series from people who are raising friend and family rounds, and I mostly pass on them. Often, these decks aren’t very good, but it’s important to remember that they don’t have to be. For a small round (say $200,000 or below), […]
