Your Startup’s Investor Pitch Deck Is No Longer Cutting It

The failure rate of VC-backed startups is high, so why do all the pitch decks look the same?

Joe Procopio

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The odds of your startup landing venture capital money are getting slimmer and slimmer.

And I don’t think that’s necessarily your fault.

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Written by Joe Procopio

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Entrepreneurship Handbook

I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer. Building TeachingStartup.com & GROWERS. Write at Inc.com and BuiltIn.com. More at joeprocopio.com

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