Investors are quick to judge.
Weak decks get 90 seconds or less. A pitch deck must catch their interest in the first couple of slides.
If you can afford to, use a designer.
I received a pitch a day in 2021.
Trust me -- if you're lucky, investors will spend about 3 minutes reading your pre-seed deck the first time.
You need to make it count.
A plain-English thread for first-time founders on how.
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Investors are quick to judge.
Weak decks get 90 seconds or less. A pitch deck must catch their interest in the first couple of slides.
If you can afford to, use a designer.
You're not trying to put every last bit of information about your startup in your deck.
You're trying to get a meeting.
Don't try to force-feed the investor information. Leave out the minutiae.
Your pre-seed deck should be ~12 slides.
It signals "there's too much information in here".
Cut any slide that does not advance the narrative, like detailed financial projections. Your numbers are probably wrong anyway.
Investors will spend the most time on these 6 slides:
- Product
- Business model
- Go to market strategy
- Traction
- Competition
- Team
Build a narrative flow, starting with a slide about a problem to a solution to the product.
Use visuals. Illustrate important product features using wireframes, screenshots, embedded videos, or Figma mockups.
Use simple (correct!) analogies to explain the business model:
"Uber for X" or "Like Y but with better economics"
Be data-driven and explicit:
"We are targeting a Z% gross margin."
How will you acquire your first 1,000 customers?
You are your startup's first sales & marketing lead. Organic growth, not paid ads is how you'll prove to an investor that you can find product-market fit.
A 100-person survey isn't impressive.
You're pre-seed, so you don't need much (or any) revenues. But you do need commitment & grit.
Show traction appropriate to your stage, e.g. letters of intent, waitlists, customer pipeline, beta feedback.
That's superficial. If the problem you're addressing matters, your customers are already solving it somehow.
Think broadly. Include incumbents & hacks, tech or non-tech. And say what's special about your product compared to competitors.
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• Added 20% cap more when in profit
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• Booked loss in calls
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Curated the best tweets from the best traders who are exceptional at managing strangles.
• Positional Strangles
• Intraday Strangles
• Position Sizing
• How to do Adjustments
• Plenty of Examples
• When to avoid
• Exit Criteria
How to sell Strangles in weekly expiry as explained by boss himself. @Mitesh_Engr
• When to sell
• How to do Adjustments
• Exit
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— Mitesh Patel (@Mitesh_Engr) February 10, 2019
Strangle selling. ( I am doing mostly in weekly Bank Nifty)
When to sell? When VIX is below 15
Assume spot is at 27500
Sell 27100 PE & 27900 CE
say premium for both 50-50
If bank nifty will move in narrow range u will get profit from both.
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— Mitesh Patel (@Mitesh_Engr) November 3, 2019
Nothing big deal in that.
For selling weekly option just identify last week low and high.
Now from that low and high keep 1-1.5% distance from strike.
And sell option on both side.
1/n
1st Live example of managing a strangle by Mitesh Sir. @Mitesh_Engr
• Sold Strangles 20% cap used
• Added 20% cap more when in profit
• Booked profitable leg and rolled up
• Kept rolling up profitable leg
• Booked loss in calls
• Sold only
Sold 29200 put and 30500 call
— Mitesh Patel (@Mitesh_Engr) April 12, 2019
Used 20% capital@44 each
2nd example by @Mitesh_Engr Sir on converting a directional trade into strangles. Option Sellers can use this for consistent profit.
• Identified a reversal and sold puts
• Puts decayed a lot
• When achieved 2% profit through puts then sold
Already giving more than 2% return in a week. Now I will prefer to sell 32500 call at 74 to make it strangle in equal ratio.
— Mitesh Patel (@Mitesh_Engr) February 7, 2020
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