Guest Post by Peter Geyer, MBA

You have finally scheduled a meeting with a potential investor to fund your new company.

You only have a few minutes to convince them that you are their perfect future partner.

Your marketing department (you) has spoken with your controller (your co-founder) and your engineering department (both of you), and you have developed the perfect pitch deck to present to this investor. It has nice graphics, it has numbers, it has a description of your product.

The investor is not impressed.

But why? You have a great product and all you need is some seed money to make yourself and your investor millions. How could the investor not see your potential?

Maybe it’s because you didn’t address the 5 essential things that your pitch deck should say about you. Continue reading →