Let’s say you wanted to ship something to the other side of the country, and you didn’t want to look for a box big enough, or queue at the post office. None of that. You just wanted to have someone come and pick up your package, from the comfort of your home. Well, Shyp did just that.
Mastering how to do fundraising without making mistakes comes with a great experience. But knowing the basics of how to raise funds the right way can certainly get you off on a much-needed good start. So we’re sharing 5 critical steps with you today on the art of raising funds. By following up on these, we hope your next or first round is successful!
We’re focusing on unicorn startups today, defining what makes a startup worth more than $100 million in 2020. As times change, so does business, markets, startups, and investors. Let’s see what key aspects drive startup valuation above the first hundred million in today’s business world.
The fundraising process for a startup requires a crash course on some terminology that you've probably never heard of. So, to better explain all of this, we are going to tell the story of a startup company, from funding to IPO. This is Startup Funding Explained, part 1.
We gathered some healthy assumptions to help you deflate the false sense of security many new entrepreneurs might have when launching a product or service startup.
As marihuana becomes more popular worldwide with legalization, so do cannabis startups. So let’s take the opportunity to check what the state of these plant-centered businesses are and the entire new industry they’re building into 2020 and beyond.
The fundraising platform, akin to KickStarter, IndieGogo or GoFundME, was an online crowd-funding site aimed at helping users raise the funds they needed from a group or community for whatever projects they outlined. The company would only tilt, meaning collect and distribute the funds from users, if the targeted money was fully raised. It ended up tilting in other senses a bit too much, if you ask me.
The recent truth about tech companies is that many of them are funded by VCs nowadays; especially those that focus on software. So, if you’re considering building up a new tech company, here are 9 tips on what to know before starting a business.
You’ve chosen the grant or grants to which you’ll apply. Or maybe you plan on doing that next. Either way, you’re here now, which is already a great start to your applications. But, before you fire your plea out into the business world, let’s see how to make the best use of a grant proposal template by covering its very basics and a bit more.
At this time of the year, many of you might be wondering how to start a business in 2020. Fortunately, discussing startup topics is one of our main areas of interest and expertise. So we couldn’t wait for a more appropriate time to discuss how to start a business this new year.
My, how time flies! Five versions already! I promise you we don’t want to go down the rabbit hole of naming versions with numbers, Apple-style, and the number is somewhat irrelevant. The real point is that we’ve grown (and luckily, learned) a lot over the course of 6 years and that growth is reflected in the 5 major releases we’ve done so far (roughly, one major update per year since 2014).
We deal with thousands of companies in the process of fundraising. Last year, I spoke to over 1,000 founders, and I've set a personal goal to beat that this year. These companies mostly come to me for office hours, and most of the time, their questions revolve around fundraising. One thousand people are enough to detect some patterns: the mistakes these companies are making when approaching their fundraising.
Creating a thorough marketing plan is an essential part of any new business’s ground considerations. If you’re looking for guidance on how to create a marketing plan to accelerate the process or even if you’re just looking for a trustworthy and free marketing plan template, Slidebean’s always here to help. Enhance your startup’s marketing strategies with our key facts and resources to create the perfect marketing plan.
Creating a business model slide in a startup pitch deck can be a confusing puzzle to solve for many entrepreneurs. Therefore, and over the course of this article, we will not only define what a startup business model is, but we will also share key facts any presenter should consider when attempting to answer the question of just how to make the best of a business model slide for a business pitch deck.
Can 60 seconds end a unicorn that managed to raise $120 million? If you ask Doug Evans, founder of Juicero, he will say yes.
What we had as initial input material to recreate Uber’s pitch deck were slides with no design we found on Slideshare. This means we only had the plain text to work with. The challenge to redesign it was to give the Uber pitch deck a solid graphic identity that could accompany the powerful business idea they presented back in 2008.
ince the Airbnb pitch deck was one of the first ones from unicorn companies to be released publicly, we had plenty of input and information from the media attention it got, and the great structure it actually has. Therefore, the challenge at the moment of redesigning it at Slidebean was how to make better something that’s already so good and popular!
Every month we spend around $20,000 in SaaS products. Our landing pages, our servers, our accounting- you know, the stuff you need to run a business. I figured we could share some of those platforms, which I expect other startups and small businesses will also find useful.
The Slidebean Office sitcom is a glimpse into the startup life. All the situations are inspired by true events!
Great presentations captivate an audience right off the start. For that, having an excellent hook as an attention-getter is the most effective business presentation opener. So let us give you a good set of pitch deck hook ideas along with the best pitch deck opener tips for you to take into consideration before your next startup pitch.
When we hear the term “pitch deck”, we usually think of what can be considered a general or main deck, a presentation used to pitch investors. However, there are pitch decks variations, depending on where you post them, how you share them, and what use you give to them.
We’ve created this list of the best presentation software tools to ensure you make the right call in the platform you select. This articles is the result of several weeks of research and review of 50+ presentation tools currently available on the web.
When it comes to pitch deck literature, it’s always useful to have a list of the most successful books ever written around. These pitch deck books will certainly help you to focus your presentations better, aside from the multiple free templates and other resources available online.
Our CEO, Caya, has become a go-to source when it comes to how to write a pitch deck. There have been countless articles he has written about the subject, and today, we’re summarizing a few of his key ideas here.
Making presentations interactive should not be hard to achieve for your upcoming business pitch. Let us share with you a few tricks and ideas on how to make your next presentation a bundle of interactive time spent with your audience.
As we close 2019, we wanted to share with you the Slidebean content that attracted more visitors during the year. Is your favorite video, article or template here? Find out!
We are thrilled about our success in content, specially in video content. 2019 was a breakthrough year for the Slidebean Youtube channel, and since we don't get to be on Youtube's Rewind (yet), we figured we'd do one of our own.
A crucial part of getting your pitch deck right is having a strong story to tell. In that sense, how we tell a story and the ways in which we allow our audience to navigate the flow of that storyline, will set a reliable foundation for pitch deck success. So, let’s go over a few tips on how to improve your pitch deck storytelling.
Let us share a few interesting facts about pitch decks to take your mind off those excruciating financial and business model slides.
Whenever you hear talks about series A, B, or C of funding rounds, the discussion has to do with outside investment as a means of growing a business. These are truly just usual stepping stones in the path towards building a global company.
We are doing a potpourri on this one; scouting for the three top startups to look out for in 2020 across diverse industries to give a varied little menu on three most-possibly leading business startups for next year. Our chosen industries of focus are:
From its QWERTY keyboard to real time emails, the BlackBerry was, for many years, the smartphone by choice. BlackBerry did a lot of things right. But… they did A LOT of things wrong.
We all know that funding and venture rounds are extremely quick because investors evaluate and pick who are they giving their money to, from a large number of entrepreneurs. Here are the 7 essential visual assets you need for a startup Pitch:
Pebble was the next great smart watch until it wasn’t. In 2012 it became the most successful Kickstarter campaign at the time with over $10 million pledged.
In today’s episode of Startup Forensics, we’re going to throwback to Vine and dig into some key aspects of its rise and fall, including Twitter’s acquisition of the company, along with some product, and competition analysis.
What makes a pitch presentation great is a combination of the following: A compelling story, An appropriate tone Engaging slides, Relevant figures and data We will cover each area to an excelling pitch deck over the course of this article, starting by the relevance of a compelling story.
The question around how much does a pitch deck cost depends on your pitch deck needs, of course.
In our last article, we talked about the 19 growth channels available in the world, so for this one, I am going to talk about the ones that we've tried, the ones that failed, and the ones that worked.
In general terms, the competition slide will come right after the market size and right before you go into the uniqueness of your product or service. There is a reason for that and we will cover that along with this article.
Anonymous messages and local context were the perfect mix to make the popular social network, YikYak, come to life in 2013. They were also the poison to kill it and to write on its tombstone the epitaph of: died too young and too soon.
Throughout this article, we will present practical ways to fix the insertion of storytelling for a pitch deck. If that is not what is happening in your business presentations already. Improve your presentation
In this article, we will analyze the story behind WeWork, their rise, and downfall, and of course, what lessons we can learn from them.
Is starting a business that directly competes against a player as big as Microsoft a good idea? Maybe. I hope our story sheds some light.
We will unveil a bit of the information that has circulated in regards to Reid Hoffman's understanding of a pitch deck structure and what it should include.
Join us in this casual conversation with Caya, Slidebean CEO and Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures as they talk about how to create compelling pitch decks and how to effectively pitch to VCs.
As pitch deck consultants, we are confident that many elements take part in delivering the perfect pitch deck story.
Rather than “walking like an Egyptian,” thinking like an investor is more the right way to go into this dance. You’re in the business world, trying to make your startup pitch deck succeed and reaaally trying to get investors to like you and back up your work and company. We get it!
Pitch Deck Examples that made companies like Airbnb, Uber and Facebook, the giants they are today. A pitch deck is usually a 10-20 slide presentation designed to give a short summary of your company, your business plan and your startup vision.
In this article we are going to look into: What startup accelerators are, choosing a program that is worth it for you (or deciding if you should skip them altogether), and finally how to get in.
If you’re wondering how to write the perfect pitch deck or how to craft the right story for it, you have come to the perfect place!
Not long ago, we covered the 5 Best Startup Directories. Let’s cover another five online sites to give you the 10 Best Startup Listing Websites altogether.
Unicorn startup companies are privately held companies with a valuation of a billion dollars or more. For this article, we will focus on a narrowed-down list of United States startups that have been valued as unicorns this year of 2019.
The way in which a company strategizes to bring a product, service, offering or brand into a market for maximum penetration and profitability is called a go-to-market strategy
In this article, we talk about and redesign Idwall Series A pitch deck, and how they managed to raise more than $3MM. The pitch deck is pretty well constructed for several reasons:
So, for the best healthcare startups of 2019, we will focus on a specific kind of company in healthcare; those who are setting new trends in the drug discovery business
For this article, then, we have outlined the 5 best startup directories we could find and we’ve elaborated on them a bit for your reference, as well.
We get dozens of questions from people interested different topics. From starting a business to measuring KPI's of a successful company.
An Elevator Pitch is a succinct 20-30 second speech geared to convince someone about a product or company. We've collected some startup elevator pitch examples like Airbnb, Facebook, Buffer, for you to get some inspiration out of it!
Giving an effective presentation has its tricks, yet that’s exactly where we draw 5 tips on presenting and public speaking for today.
Today, we will analyze diverse types of learners, their styles, and how they impact presentations. What’s important is to start realizing the diverse ways in which your audience might need to grasp information from you.
In this article, we are going to talk about how to grow a small business. If you don't know me, my name is Caya. I'm one of the founders and the CEO at Slidebean- a venture-funded, profitable, multi-million dollar startup.
Based on the experience gained during that summer, we today share a bit of what it was like to have been accepted into DreamIt.
Through storytelling in a presentation, stories draw readers and audiences into your content and captivate them. People connect with stories at an inexplicable level whereby narratives manage to stick to their memories in the most peculiar of ways.
Can a pitch deck be more appropriate than a sales presentation, do you wonder? What the difference between a pitch deck and a sales presentation is should be fully clear by the end of this article.
The presentation we’ll be looking at today is not really an investor pitch deck per se. These slides were created by one of Spotify’s early developers, Jon Aslund, who joined the company in 2006.
What if I started a new business today? How would I approach it?
In this article, we’re gonna be looking at the Canva Pitch Deck used to pitch their company to investors.
In this article I am going to talk about the startup mistakes I made, the hard lessons I had to learn, and how they translated into the success of this new company.
9 out of 10 startups fail; that's just the hard truth. The most common reasons, according to founders themselves, are related to the 5 Startup Myths that we covered in this article.
Having raised $800K on a seed round, Slidebean not only deals day in and out with the best presentation templates, it does so from the very knowledge of a functioning start-up that is now at 25+ employees and has historically moved from zero capital to a profitable 7 digits in current revenue figures.
If you are a US company or a foreign startup that is looking to incorporate in the US for billing/investment purposes, this article will help you with the number of corporation costs that you should be prepared of, in order to avoid a hit to your company.
What are the essential elements to a successful pitch deck? For any investor (honestly, serious or not about doing business with you), these are just crucial pieces of information to have for an investment decision to be made. So, keep them in there, and do make the best of them that you can.
What are the essential elements to a successful pitch deck? For any investor (honestly, serious or not about doing business with you), these are just crucial pieces of information to have for an investment decision to be made. So, keep them in there, and do make the best of them that you can.
This Uber pitch deck that successfully raised the company's first round of funding. It's a fantastic example of a perfectly defined problem/solution combination.
Coming up with a compelling pitch deck is an essential instrument for getting a startup off the ground. How to make a pitch deck, therefore, is crucial, and startups need to nail this part of the funding process.
Each minute of this video costs around $150. Based on this numbers, what's a good YouTube content marketing ROI?
How to create an elevator pitch: the elevator pitch is about who you are, what you do, and what you want. Engage the person with your personal story and credentials, then ask for what you want.
As we've scaled Slidebean and had the chance to connect with hundreds of companies, one of the most common questions I get is around how to find a cofounder.
How to get seed funding: Just as a seed needs unconditional care and water to grow, a startup business needs crucial nourishing of finance to expand and grow.
Startup business funding: Going into business for oneself is always a daunting decision especially if you cannot personally fund the launch.
We've gathered our all-time top 10 pitch decks presentation templates. These templates will come handy when starting your company. Craft your message with our editable version.
Your company profile is a marketing tool that showcases your brand’s products, services, and activities. A powerful company profile presentation should be more than just a brochure.
You’ve started up, and gaining traction. You’ve put your seed money to good use, you’ve got a small but sustainable customer base, made your first couple of million and it feels like you’ve got something good going.It’s time for Series A pitch deck.
What is a Startup Financial Model and how does it work? We reviewed the full financials of Slidebean for our most important year.
Discover three powerful alternatives to deliver a powerful pitch deck design to your potential clients or investors. A pitch deck that stands out can say a lot about the stage your company is in.
Caya, CEO at Slidebean, answers questions from the YouTube audience. These are frequently asked questions when fundraising or starting a business.
If you're a freelancer applying for a contract job or a company proposing a new vendor agreement, learning how to write a business proposal properly will guarantee that you showcase your skills and close more deals when making your pitches. Also, get access to our business proposal template for free.
Startups Pitch deck templates can serve very different purposes, from trying to get a meeting with a new investor, to presenting in front of a stage, and each one of them should follow a different structure! Here's a few pitch deck examples every startup founder needs.
Not all businesses are created equal. There are many differences between starting a small business vs starting a startup.
In this article, we to look into the workflow of how to raise money for a business. Today we are going to look into the process of raising capital.
Startup CEO roles are a demanding and mentally exhausting job. The decisions you make, affect the future of your company and your employees.
A pitch deck is one of the most important representation that a startup could have. If you get this first step wrong you could jeopardize startup funding opportunities before investors even take a look at the 2nd slide. Here are some of the most common startups fundraising mistakes.
There's a lot to consider when starting a business, but the relationship with your co-founders is probably one of the most critical parts.
Demo days are often the first chance a startup gets at getting in front of investors. For most startup accelerators, this is your graduation event, and a lot of work goes into preparing those slides and those pitches.
Digging deep into what is a pitch deck and how to create a pitch deck for investors. There is a pretty standardized outline that most presentations follow, so we'll look at each slide and dig into what content you should include in each one of them.
If you are an early-stage startup in the tech space and you are looking for money to grow your company, the official term is raising capital, the most commonly recommended instrument to raise funds is a convertible note. However, to understand how those work, we first need to understand how equity (or stock) works.
Today we wanted to talk about accelerators. Slidebean/FounderHub, as a company, went through Startup Chile in 2013, through DreamIt in 2014 and through 500 Startups in 2015. Why so many accelerators, you ask? Well, great question.
This article is meant to be ultimate presentation design inspiration. It will provide you with a vast amount of resources, so you can master the art of transforming ideas into beautiful slides.
Be on top of your business budget with our startup financial model template! Not only it can make the difference, but also it allows managers and founders to make game-changing decisions. Download the template today!
The Elevator Pitch can be used in many situations faced by startups. It can be used in any scenario where we need to grab our audience's attention and pitch a product quickly. Use this article lo learn how to write an effective elevator pitch!
