For founders who are raising right now
You send me your deck, we talk for an hour on Google Meet. Afterwards you know what an investor sees and won't tell you.
Rejections come without a reason. Often they don't come at all.
You write to investors and never hear back. DocSend shows you that nobody reads past slide three. You have good meetings that never turn into a second one.
You never learn why. There are two reasons:
So they go quiet, or they write that it's not a fit right now. And you rebuild blind: new slides, new order, new list. The problem everyone sees stays in.
€350 plus VAT · 60 minutes
One hour, you and me, on your deck. We go through it slide by slide: where an investor stumbles, what is missing, what can go. You leave with a list you can work through before you send it out again.
€550 plus VAT · 60 minutes
I tell you what the people around you see and don't say: about the deck, the company, the plan and about you. No padding.
Because honesty hurts. You when you hear it, me when I say it.
In Plato's cave, the one who comes back and says the shadows on the wall are not real is not celebrated. The others would kill him if they could.
Companies work the same way, with less blood. What nobody tells you stays unsaid, because it hurts and because the messenger gets punished. Your team has jobs to lose, your investors have told their partners a story, and your friends just like you.
That's why I charge for it. Paying shows you want to hear it, including the parts that sting. Then I can say them without cushioning anything.
I have been at this for twenty years, and I know both chairs.
As an investor I read decks, sorted them out and turned them down. I know what an investor thinks after three slides. And I know what it is like when nobody tells you.
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