For my book, “Pitch Perfect,” I created a pitch deck template and included the operating plan template you can see at the top of this article.

5) Market Size Every single pitch deck should incorporate the size of the market and potential size of the opportunity. These are must have metrics. Think in billions and always add credible sources.

3. Pull your information into the template you’ve chosen. Before you do so, do a quick Google search for some pitch deck examples that you like and whose elements you might want to bring into ...

As described in my book The Art of Startup Fundraising, investors spend on average 3 minutes, 44 seconds reviewing a pitch deck. Normally pitch decks include no more than 19 slides.

Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule for presentations specifies that your deck should have no more than ten slides, run for 20 minutes, and have a minimum text size of 30 points. "The purpose of a pitch ...

A pitch book, also known as a Confidential Information Memorandum, is a presentation more focused on the sale of a company, its assets, or shares. It is most frequently used in M&A by business ...