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Ask Jason: investing in similar startups, pitch deck tips + MycoWorks Co-Founder Sophia Wang | E1630

This Week in Startups

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Venture Capital Firms Aren't Competing With Slack

Five to ten slides gives you the overview of what the company's doing, but keeps you wanting more. A slide should move every 30 seconds other people think every 20 seconds or a minute. Make your deck is simple clean and one point per slide not eight or nine. Don't text heavy some people want to write paragraphs for raising money. You're making an uber killer if you're making a slack killer you don't want slack as What if slacks venture capital firms who's on the board? If they ask you to pitch just tell them straight up "I'm building another communications platform that competes with it"

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