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Breaking Down HomeCooks’ $3.2M Seed Deck: An Analysis of the Pitch Presentation

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Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has grown rapidly and today serves around 7,000 customers. Quick spoiler alert here: At 25 slides, this deck is way too long, but it’s also one of the best pitch decks I’ve seen in a hot minute. Slides in this deckThe company shared its 25-slide deck in full, without redactions or edits. In this deck, HomeCooks shows that it has figured out how to make this work. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things HomeCooks could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!

“Analyzing Metafuels’ $8M Climate Tech Seed Pitch Deck”

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There are some minor redactions, but the bulk of this slide deck is intact. In 2022, around 300 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel was produced, and that doubled this year to more than 600 million liters, per the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Let yourself nerd out about the techWhen you’re building a deep tech company, the tallest pole in the tent is always going to be the tech itself. Make it work, then make it work at small scale, then scale to production scale. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Metafuels could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!

Common Mistakes Founders Make in Their Pitch Decks and How to Avoid Them

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A while back, I built a tool that would automatically analyze a pitch deck and give you feedback. A couple of months and a few thousand analyzed decks later, I have built up quite the library of insights for what most founders are getting right — and wrong — in their pitch decks. 5 things most founders get rightAbout 90% of founders don’t include an exit strategy in their slide deck. 60% of the decks analyzed had a decent value proposition, explaining how and why the product is delivering value to its customers. Here are the five most common issues:5 most common mistakes in pitch decks