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The bit about financials slides mattering most because investors spend more time reading them seems misleading, especially in light of the evidence that "only 5
by ftio 11y ago
The bit about financials slides mattering most because investors spend more time reading them seems misleading, especially in light of the evidence that "only 57 percent of successful decks have this section."
Investors spend more time on financials slides because they're information dense (there's literally just more to read), because they often receive less design consideration than the "softer" slides (slap a table on there because it looks like something an accountant would make), and because they're calculating runway and evaluating business-savvy — not because they necessarily "matter more," whatever that even means.
- pcrh 11y agoI suspect it also has to do with traditions in finance. Due diligence, audits of accounts, etc, are a integral part of how education in finance is conducted. Also, it is easy to do the basic arithmetic and see if proposals "add up". So people are more used to examining financial documents in detail. When it comes to markets, people, sales, etc, people are more used to going with their "domain knowledge" or "gut instinct", which takes only a few seconds.
- frandroid 11y ago> because they're calculating runway and evaluating business-savvy I would agree that if that's what they're doing that on that slide, then it still does "matter more".