The document provides advice from multiple venture capitalists and startup experts on how to structure a pitch deck for an initial VC meeting. It recommends including sections on the problem, solution, market size, sales strategy, competition, team, financial projections, and status/timeline, with the full presentation kept to under 25 minutes and 10-20 slides. The advice emphasizes clearly outlining the problem, solution, metrics to show traction or adoption, and the management team's experience.

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5. Marc Suster Slide 1 – Team Bio Slide 2 – 50k foot view of your company Slide 3 – Problem Definition Slide 4 – How do you solve the problem ? Demo Web Version and a Demo Video Example Slide 5 – Market Sizing Slide 5 warning: ( Market Sizing Pitfalls ) Slide 6 – Competition Slide 7 – Customer Adoption / Traction Slide 8 – Team Slide 9 – Financial projections Slide 10 – Use of Proceeds Slide 11 – Fund raising process / Next steps Appendix – Back-up slides How to deal with the dreaded question of valuation ?