Check out this old Foursquare logo![/caption] If you want to launch the next big thing, chances are good you’ll need to secure some funding. Pitching your product is part of that process, and now you can look back at the pitch-deck submissions that some huge tech entities used to convince venture capitalists to throw gobs of cash at them. SlideShare has some interesting catalogued decks. Even monoliths such as YouTube have decks hosted on the site, and we’d be lying if we told you we didn’t giggle at YouTube’s old position that email was its biggest competitor (totally fair in 2005; in 2017, it’s just so darn cute.) Other firms, including WeWork, now have enormous valuations based on a really great idea. Venture capitalists (sometimes) know what they’re doing, and any good idea can be worth big bucks for the right crowd. The decks we’ve assembled here are meant as a learning tool as well as a stroll down memory lane. If you’re riding another company down the VC funding rabbit’s hole, we suggest checking out SlideShare to get an idea of how some of the tech world's buzziest firms secured capital – and how to distinguish yourself from their pitch.
5 Decks That Turned Startups into Huge Companies
[caption id="attachment_142262" align="aligncenter" width="4350"] Check out this old Foursquare logo![/caption] If you want to launch the next big thing, chances are good you’ll need to secure some funding. Pitching your product is part of that process, and now you can look back at the pitch-deck submissions that some huge tech entities used to convince venture capitalists to throw gobs of cash at them. SlideShare has some interesting catalogued decks. Even monoliths such as YouTube have decks hosted on the site, and we’d be lying if we told you we didn’t giggle at YouTube’s old position that email was its biggest competitor (totally fair in 2005; in 2017, it’s just so darn cute.) Other firms, including WeWork, now have enormous valuations based on a really great idea. Venture capitalists (sometimes) know what they’re doing, and any good idea can be worth big bucks for the right crowd. The decks we’ve assembled here are meant as a learning tool as well as a stroll down memory lane. If you’re riding another company down the VC funding rabbit’s hole, we suggest checking out SlideShare to get an idea of how some of the tech world's buzziest firms secured capital – and how to distinguish yourself from their pitch.
LinkedIn
How #meta is this?! From 2004, we get a glimpse at LinkedIn’s Series B round when it sought $10 billion. Now part of Microsoft, the company was bought for $26 billion in 2016. Another very thorough deck, LinkedIn’s is a great example of how to properly lay out a B2B service when you want to get investors excited.
Check out this old Foursquare logo![/caption] If you want to launch the next big thing, chances are good you’ll need to secure some funding. Pitching your product is part of that process, and now you can look back at the pitch-deck submissions that some huge tech entities used to convince venture capitalists to throw gobs of cash at them. SlideShare has some interesting catalogued decks. Even monoliths such as YouTube have decks hosted on the site, and we’d be lying if we told you we didn’t giggle at YouTube’s old position that email was its biggest competitor (totally fair in 2005; in 2017, it’s just so darn cute.) Other firms, including WeWork, now have enormous valuations based on a really great idea. Venture capitalists (sometimes) know what they’re doing, and any good idea can be worth big bucks for the right crowd. The decks we’ve assembled here are meant as a learning tool as well as a stroll down memory lane. If you’re riding another company down the VC funding rabbit’s hole, we suggest checking out SlideShare to get an idea of how some of the tech world's buzziest firms secured capital – and how to distinguish yourself from their pitch.
