Are you preparing for an investment? If so, you will need to create an investment proposal PPT that showcases your company's potential. To leave a strong impression on investment managers who review thousands of investments every year, you need a strategy tailored to the timing and situation.
StoryDoc, a global presentation company, creates eye-catching interactive decks for leading companies like Meta and Xerox and offers a variety of templates. Recently, they released content inspired by the pitch decks and promotional materials of unicorn companies, showing how to improve slides to make them more effective.
Today, we will examine two investment proposal PPT strategies suitable for the current times through slides redesigned by Storydog.
Investment Proposal PPT Strategy 1. Keep slides concise for important content.
Uber's 2009 pitch deck, simplifying industry issues and market size into a single slide
Uber's 2009 investment proposalmarked the starting point of innovation in the transportation industry, securing $200,000 in startup funding. The PPT presentation produced at the time focused on the problems of the inefficient transportation industry and Uber's innovative solutions. However, from the perspective of 2024, the content of the slides is excessively dense, making it difficult to grasp the core message. In particular, the method of listing numbers and tables across multiple slides in the sections presenting the problem and explaining market size does not appear effective.
Storydog focused on expressing content as concisely as possible within a single slide. While Uber's original investment proposal may have been a document that effectively explained a world-changing idea at the time, the situation is different now. We must understand how people consume content in 2024 and structure the slides accordingly. It must be concise to capture the attention of an investment manager during the brief 15 seconds or so they spend scanning the pitch deck.
Investment Proposal PPT Strategy 2. Visualization to Upgrade Ideas into More Attractive Ideas.
Netflix's 2001 email transformed into a slide showing business strategy
An email from Netflix, shared on Twitter in 2017 by Harry McCracken, the former editor-in-chief of Time magazine, is interesting. It was a pitch explaining the Netflix service and offering a free subscription. (Before OTT services became commercially available, Netflix used to make such bold and direct pitches. 😉) Unfortunately, however, McCracken reportedly ignored all contact from Netflix after this email. He was brave, but not persuasive.
At Storydog, we created a new Netflix pitch deck. It begins by discussing the distribution system of the entertainment industry. It clearly explains the problems viewers were facing and immediately presents the Netflix service as the solution. Furthermore, by presenting specific features, vision, and revenue models, the deck is structured to naturally visualize the storyline of the business strategy.
For early-stage startup investment proposal PPTs, slide strategy is important.
Even unicorn companies like Uber and Netflix struggled with their investment proposals during their early startup days. They, too, made mistakes such as having overly long slides filled with boasts or starting straight to the main point out of impatience without understanding the situation or context. Through these examples, we can realize how important it is to deliver the core message concisely and visualize ideas attractively.
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