Pitch Deck Bootcamp
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build a head-turning pitch deck that attracts investors and brings your fundraising goals within reach.
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build a head-turning pitch deck that attracts investors and brings your fundraising goals within reach.
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Hosted by
Jack Zerby (Instructor)
Jack's a pro designer and 5x founder, with $2B+ raised using his deck designs
Course overview
A well-crafted pitch deck creates a winning narrative and crystallizes ideas for your audience, bringing your fundraising goals within reach. In this highly interactive, actionable training, you'll create an effectively-designed pitch deck to attract investors to your startup.
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You're a founder raising initial funds for your startup from angels and seed investors.
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You're a startup CEO or executive raising a seed or pre-series A investment from VCs.
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You're anyone working to attract investors and customers to your startup and its mission.
You’ll weave your startup idea into a clear, cohesive and attractive narrative that lands with your investor audience.
You’ll distill your pitch into the 9 - 13 core slides that most investors look for in an early-stage pitch deck.
You'll help investors grasp a specific problem in the world and why your startup's solution is best-positioned to solve it.
You'll make your product demo the apex of your story clearly, concisely and without missing a beat during your pitch.
We'll cover techniques to make your Total Addressable Market (TAM) slide specific and believable.
Using common mental models for quicker orientation, you'll keep your business model slide clear and easy-to-understand for investors.
You'll design your competition slide in a way that emphasizes your startup’s differences, and shows how your startup is a vast improvement over the competition.
You'll learn how to build a team slide that highlights your team's winning strengths and exudes confidence.
You’ll learn how to best communicate your vision to investors, in a way that builds on your story and keeps you in the driver's seat of the pitch conversation.
You’ll take a deck design crash course to help you master your presentation's layout and design details to keep your audiences rapt attention.
You'll get recommended resources and tools like stock imagery, illustrations, and fonts, as well guides and cheatsheets you can use while building your pitch.
David Tisch
David Stark
Foti Panagiotakopoulos
Liz Cohen
Emma Datny
Dalia Landes
Michal Eisikowitz
Thomas Mazimann
Seasoned design professional, entrepreneur, and pitch deck expert
Jack has been pitching investors and designing pitch decks for over a decade. He's seen what works, what mistakes to avoid, and built this Pitch Deck Bootcamp to share his design principles, systems and methodology with other founders and operators.
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Three Principles Of An Effective Pitch Deck
1. Tell a great story - How to use tried-and-true Hollywood story frameworks to engage your audience
2. Know your audience - How to understand the conversation going on inside an investor's head
3. Be clear & concise - How to get your message across as succinctly as possible
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Crafting Your Core Slides: Part 1
One-by-one, review each of the core slides that most investors look for in an early-stage pitch deck, all with real examples, starting with:
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Crafting Your Core Slides: Part 2
Building on Part 1, we'll continue reviewing each of the core slides that most investors look for in an early-stage pitch deck, closing with:
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Leveraging Design Principles To Elevate Your Story
You'll integrate timeless design principles into your slides, including:
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Pitch Feedback
You'll get a chance to pitch and receive personalized feedback from your instructor and cohort peers.
11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT
Meet your instructor, your peers, and dive straight into to the first topic: Three Principles Of An Effective Pitch Deck.
11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT
The first week of Jack Zerby's Pitch Deck Bootcamp will focus on live training sessions, happening Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Each session will last an hour and include short lectures on key topics, along with brief workshops and Q & A.
11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT
Submit drafts of your core slides for individual feedback, and experience a closed-door pitch feedback session with your cohort peers.
11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT
Submit drafts of your core slides for individual feedback, and experience a closed-door pitch feedback session with your instructor.
11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm GMT
In our final session, you'll participate in a crash-course on pitch deck design principles. This session will help you level up when communicating with designers and/or using presentation design tools yourself, bringing your pitch deck to pixel-perfection.
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
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