
Short form slide deck hints and tips
The slide deck should be a medium for you to sell your idea to the investor. It should provide basic information, but most of all should excite the investor and encourage them to want to know more about your business.
The short form slide deck will probably be the first visual experience that the investor has of your proposal. It has to create interest and fit within the providence of that investor’s remit.
We often get asked to supply a template slide deck that will contain the information that an investor will need. Certainly, we have a template available, but it is just a deck with suggested areas to be covered; there are no magic templates that will guarantee success. And remember, all businesses are different. Investors are different too, so what interests one may not interest another.
The slide deck should be a medium for you to sell your idea to the investor. It should provide basic information, but most of all should excite the investor and encourage them to want to know more about your business.
Here are the basics that should be covered. It could be the case that not all are relevant to your business, and some could be combined – again depending on the business. We did say earlier that there is no standard template that will suit every business!
Try not to put too much written information on the slides as in a competition between reading the slides and listening to the presenter, the slides usually win!