drew_m

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by drew_m 6y ago
Addressing the issue of fake pitch decks: I gathered the decks from a variety of sources on the web and trusted they were originals. Although interpretations of company pitch decks may be of value for some people. I'd rather this be a
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by drew_m 6y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I've taken the FB deck down. It was a mistake for me not to properly vet each of them before uploading them and it does look pretty dubious.
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by drew_m 6y ago
Thanks for the admiration for the work I put into it. It didn't take too much time and it was a fun project to work on :) I'll try to remedy the fabricated decks
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by drew_m 6y ago
Kegstand? If so, fair play for them having that in one of their early pitch decks and still becoming one of our tech overloads. I felt if we put a foot out of line in our pitch deck we were sunk. Number don't lie though, they had serio
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by drew_m 6y ago
Sorry man... I'm sure you have good reasons to question the validity of some of them and I don't doubt your sincerity. It was my understanding that they are all legitimate. I don't want to promote a 2nd year business student&
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by drew_m 6y ago
Not that I have first-hand experience at successfully pitching for huge money, but I completely agree. A lot of successful companies have average pitch decks but have great content on their side. One takeaway I've gotten from this side
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by drew_m 6y ago
That's really interesting, and a great way of analyzing pitches. I've noticed most seem to follow the order you have listed too. It's pretty similar to the template Sequoia shared. Interesting that you found the pitches that
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by drew_m 6y ago
Yeah absolutely, I'd like that too. I think year, amount raised, stage, sector and team size would be a good start
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by drew_m 6y ago
Good idea, I can add the sources/references in. They were scattered around a lot of different websites
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by drew_m 6y ago
No kidding, I wasn't expecting this to potentially be a paid product. Just thought it would be cool resource to share with the community. Good to know this is something people want though, I'll implement it
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by drew_m 6y ago
The thought didn't cross my mind when I was building it but come to think of it, it's actually something I'd like too. It would be nice to be able download them for traveling. I can implement it so
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by drew_m 6y ago
Yeah absolutely, I was thinking a filter by the funding round, year, team size and industry would be good. Any others? It has been a fun side project and I wasn't sure if people would be interested in it so I wanted to launch early and
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by drew_m 6y ago
Understandable, it isn't available now but I could add the option to bulk download all files if people would be interested. Or I could email you the pdfs or share them on a Drive if you'd like?
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by drew_m 6y ago
Glad you like it, thanks a million.
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by drew_m 6y ago
I used fuse.js - it's a fuzzy search javascript library which works pretty well.
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by drew_m 6y ago
Thanks a million for your very kind words. I'm delighted you like it and it's a great encouragement to keep working on it!
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I've collected over 600 pitch decks(starthouse.xyz)
606 points by drew_m 6y ago|87 comments