Duyk - Pitch Deck Guide

POV: You're an investor reviewing pitch decks on a Tuesday morning Deck 1: "We're the Shopify of dog therapy" Slide count: 25. Font size: 8. Close tab ❌ Deck 2: Cover slide says "Confidential" Nothing else. No company name or one-liner. Just vibes. Close tab ❌ Deck 3: "Our TAM is $4.7 trillion" The product is a Chrome extension. Close tab ❌ Deck 4: Clear problem, real traction and specific ask with beautiful design. 12 slides. Great font size. Opens calendar ✅ That's it. That's the whole game. Your deck isn't competing with your competitors. It's competing with the 32 other decks sitting in someone's inbox on a Tuesday morning. Make it easy to say yes. (Or at least don't be Deck 2)

Close your laptop. Grab a pen. Write down the one sentence an investor should remember about your startup. That sentence is your pitch deck’s backbone. Build everything around it.

In person visits are great but it is not new, even, it is the oldest model of sales. So, if we come back to the old tactics, we probably should get rid of all fancy titles and start clean, simple companies.

@aaron_epstein So remote era is completely over?

The biggest hack I’ve seen for founders to close deals faster: just show up. Get on a plane, fly to their office, meet in person, bond with the whole team. Instantly replaces weeks of zoom calls.

@paulg @Sherifdeenolat2 Are we embracing AI or running away from it? What is the current attitude rn?

@Sherifdeenolat2 You may not know me, but your bot has been replying to me. That's the whole problem.

Wtf is this? Why he blocked me tho, I don’t even know him

@sherifgjini Existing users leaving is better. At least, they loved me once and it is fixable 💔

Which is worse? - no users - existing users leaving

@yahyavision @every I love them so much.

Designers tell me your all time favorite branding, I go first: Wise

@alexwtlf You don't need a pitch deck. Just be confident. Talk loudly and they'll listen.

How to raise $500k for your startup? wrong answers only.

Fundraising is full time and highly repetitive job. Every day, you'll do the same things. You can't have the same motivation every day, but you can keep your discipline. Start with building your system.

Honestly same. I'm missing real human conversations even pointless ones. Sometimes, I'm tired of my own opinions and ideas lol AI cannot replace great team but since it is cheaper, it'll be common. And in the past, solo founder was a red flag. Investors had a bias about it. It is changing now.

@pitchdeckguide @dara_venture Solo founder. Brainstorm with AI all the time, but still a real human brain is missing. That’s what I’ve been missing the most as a solo founder. I used to have large teams of smart people.

A bad co-founder is more expensive than no co-founder.

@amarifields_ For some stories, it's just this $1k that makes them real.

if you’re building and need a first check between $1k-$10k that early belief can change everything lvlup ventures is investing before the product, hype, and attention arrive

Turn your idea into pitch deck:

In 2022, a founder reached out. They needed a pitch deck for their AI content generation tool. No existing deck, no story, no positioning. Just a product that felt like it came from the future. An AI that could actually write usable marketing copy, months before ChatGPT existed. The best part: I was already using their tool before they ever reached out. So when they showed up in my inbox, it felt like a small miracle. I genuinely loved this product. I knew what it could do. Their instinct was to prove themselves technically. Competitors were everywhere, and they felt pressure to show why their engine was better under the hood. More architecture details. More model comparisons. More "here's why we're different technically." I get why founders think this way. When the market is crowded, it feels logical to out-explain everyone. But when the third AI startup explains their proprietary NLP pipeline, it all starts sounding the same. So I went the other direction. And honestly, it felt risky. Because I was genuinely impressed by the technology. Part of me wanted to show it off too. But being impressed by the tech and knowing what investors need to see are two different things. I simplified every technical explanation down to two points: it's fast (with data to back it up) and it works. Then I shifted the entire story toward what actually mattered. This tool writes content automatically. It has 40+ ready-to-use templates for blogs, ads, social posts. Not fill-in-the-blank templates. Real structured outputs that generate usable copy. In 2022, that was still magic. Investors hadn't seen ChatGPT yet. Claude didn't exist. Watching software generate real marketing copy felt like a demo from the future. I was excited building this deck because I could feel it. The timing, the product, the moment. Everything lined up. So I built the deck to let that feeling land. Benefits first, magic second, tech proof simplified to support, not lead. I also did something I'd never done before. I used the founder's own tool to write sections of the deck content. If your product generates copy, your pitch deck should prove it. It was a bold move. It could have looked gimmicky. But thankfully, it worked! We trusted the product and we weren't wrong. The founder stopped pitching like an engineer and started leading with numbers and outcomes. That shift changed every investor conversation after. The company was acquired by a growth company. They now have over 200,000 users and have evolved into a content automation platform. Investors don't fund the best technology. They fund the clearest picture of why it matters right now. Sometimes that means cutting the parts you love most to make room for the parts that close the deal. -- P.S. If you're building something exciting and need a deck that does it justice, I'd love to hear about it. Let's talk about your pitch deck and how I can help you get more investor meetings.

@oykun Is being dead x 2 like doing a 180-degree turn? I mean... have we come back to life?

designers are “double”-dead now, i guess.

🤔 pitchdeckmaxxxing

@dominikmartinX Marketing's bottleneck is not automation and people couldn't see that yet.

I haven’t seen ONE ai tool that actually automates anything meaningful in marketing… Not even one, yet I’ve tried so many.

@CultureCrave I cannot believe sharing post is limited. In the past, rewards were given for sharing content. Now, sharing is limited. Shocking.

Unverified accounts on Twitter (X) now have a daily limit of 50 posts and 200 replies

@aryanlabde Looollll $0 revenue 🤌🏻

Expectations after launch: > 10000 visitors > 100 signups > $500 MRR Reality: > 100 visitors > 0 signups > -$200 revenue

@KevinNaughtonJr That is not true

once you reach 30 it's impossible to raise VC money