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Dennis Berry's avatar

Awesome practical framework. Especially love to avoid the “jargon soup”. Most investors are pretty sharp and can see through it.

Keep it crisp and on point.

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Thanks for the wisdom Dennis. Spot on advice ✅

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Karen Spinner's avatar

This is a very clarifying exercise, even if you’re not pitching investors!

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Indeed. It's just good to know now investors think about what's a compelling investment proposition 🌞

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Noel Lourdes's avatar

Here is my practice:

My company, SPEAR, is developing a procurement platform that helps aircraft maintenance companies cut labour hours and delays when sourcing spare parts — using AI agents. We compete in an $8bn software market serving a $49bn spare-parts industry. We’re similar to SkySelect, but we’re building a buy-now, pay-later feature to help workshops close deals faster and improve cash flow. I’m a former corporate financier with a tech co-founder. Together, we built a beta product used by a division of Singapore Airlines, which grew its seats from two to 11 in six months. We’re raising €3m to reach product-market fit and scale across Asia and Europe.

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Chris Tottman's avatar

If you want some critique on your investor pitch - my team & Co-Authors built a Deck Hack GPT using 20000 of the decks & analysis I've run over them and 7 VC scorecards including 3 of my own - see here - https://vencha-academy.com/pitch-deck-critique - best of luck with it ✅

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Chris Tottman's avatar

If you want some critique on your investor pitch - my team & Co-Authors built a Deck Hack GPT using 20000 of the decks & analysis I've run over them and 7 VC scorecards including 3 of my own - see here - https://vencha-academy.com/pitch-deck-critique - best of luck with it ✅

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Chris Tottman's avatar

If you want some critique on your investor pitch - my team & Co-Authors built a Deck Hack GPT using 20000 of the decks & analysis I've run over them and 7 VC scorecards including 3 of my own - see here - https://vencha-academy.com/pitch-deck-critique - best of luck with it ✅

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Noel Lourdes's avatar

Thank you Chris. I will give it a go.

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Noel Lourdes's avatar

Chris. I loved it. I was the one the one that waffled and had so many 60 second "car crashes". Your structured note helps people like me. May I ask, is it ok in your competitor part to talk about your vision to differentiate ie right now I have no compelling differentiator, but I will if I had the capital.

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Chris Tottman's avatar

If you want some critique on your investor pitch - my team & Co-Authors built a Deck Hack GPT using 20000 of the decks & analysis I've run over them and 7 VC scorecards including 3 of my own - see here - https://vencha-academy.com/pitch-deck-critique - best of luck with it ✅

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Abdulai Jalloh's avatar

Great piece Chris

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Chris Tottman's avatar

Thanks for sharing

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