There’s a lot of advice on pre-seed decks out there, but this is what I’ve recently seen work well with a few founder friends who have raised $3M+

Naruto's Guide to a Good Pre-Seed Deck - by Besart Çopa

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2024-05-06 13:00:05

There’s a lot of advice on pre-seed decks out there, but this is what I’ve recently seen work well with a few founder friends who have raised $3M+ in the past four months. I’ve been sharing this structure in many 1:1 chats with prospective founders, so I’m putting it here for everyone.

Flow: The emphasis on this structure is flow and storytelling: each section flows onto the other naturally. This makes the pitch memorable in an ocean of a million pitches.

Clarity: It makes the sections you must include clear: you would be surprised how many 25+ slide pitches I hear and still can’t tell what the product is.

All Startup Advice is Bad: the Principles of Survivorship and Availability Bias apply to this advice— as to all startup advice.

Opening: “Hey everyone, my name is Naruto Uzumaki, and today I’ll be pitching the Shinobi Network as a Service (SNAS)!”