Here are great startup pitch deck resources. Comment away if I have missed any.

The Ultimate Pitch Deck to Raise Money for Startups by Chance Barnett

Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors for your startup is challenging at any stage and requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their company.

The good news is that there’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.

In this article below I’ve distilled the investor pitch formula down to the 11 core slides you need in your initial pitch deck. I’ve also provided specific examples including the actual deck that Reid Hoffman used to get funding for LinkedIn LNKD +1.75% from Greylock.

The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup by Dharmesh Shah

One of the big no-no’s we’ve learnt about early on in Silicon Valley is to publicly share the pitchdeck you’ve used to raise money. At least, not before you’ve been acquired or failed or in any other way been removed from stage. That’s a real shame, we thought. Sharing the actual slidedeck we used (and one, that’s not 10 years old) is by far one of the most useful things for others to learn from. In fact, both Joel and I have privately shared the deck with fledging founders to help them with their fundraising. On top of that, our case study is hopefully uniquely insightful for lots of people. Here is why:

Half a million is not a crazy amount : It’s therefore hopefully an example that helps the widest range of founders trying to raise money.

: It’s therefore hopefully an example that helps the widest range of founders trying to raise money. Both Joel and myself are first-timers: We couldn’t just throw big names onto a slideshow and ride with it. We had to test and change the flow and deck a lot.

The 9 Best Startup Pitch Decks of All Time by Heather Carson

Every month, we round up our favourite posts of all time on topics ranging from content marketing and social media to analytics and CRO. We delve into everything you need to get your startup the attention and traction it deserves!

This month, we’re diving into one of our favorite parts of #StartupPR: the best startup pitch decks we’ve seen. Not only do these get the job done, but they do it with style, creativity, and noteworthy tactics.

Just how much fun can you have with a pitch deck these days? Let me share a little story: at a Demo Day I emceed in 2012, the founder put up this slide at the end of his investment pitch. After months of neglecting family and friends to build his MVP, he asked for two things: $500,000 and $500 to take a trip with his wife. Genius.

LinkedIn’s Series B Pitch To Greylock by Reid Hoffman

At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.

Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks. Because we value integrity and confidentiality at Greylock, we never share an entrepreneur’s pitch deck with others. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004.

Perfecting Your Pitch by Garage Technology Ventures

Pitching is about understanding what your customer (the investor) is most interested in, and developing a dialog that enables you to connect with the head, the heart, and the gut of the investor. If you want advice about pitching, you can ask a venture capitalist, but you probably won’t get a very good answer. Most VCs are analytic types, and so they will give you a laundry list of topics you should cover. They won’t tell you what really floats their boat, mainly because they themselves can’t articulate it in useful terms. “I know it when I see it,” is about the best answer you’ll get.

10 Things to Include in Your Startup Pitch Presentation by Bill Clark

Have a presentation (a “pitch deck”) prepared with which you can pitch your entire idea and business plan in less than 20 minutes. You should also be able to provide more details if questions arise. Decks should be about 10 pages long, but what should they include? Here, we’ve listed the 10 components that investors care about the most and how you should approach them.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint by Guy Kawasaki

As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning.

This 14-Slide Pitch Deck Helped Content Startup Contently Land $9 Million by Alyson Shontell

Contently helps freelance writers find work. It recently raised a $9 million Series B round of financing from Lightbank, ff Venture Capital, and Consigliere Brand Capital. It has raised $12 million to date.

Co-founder Shane Snow says the fundraising process took two months, but his team networked for a number of months with investors before the round was raised. His advice to other entrepreneurs who are trying to raise money is to focus on telling a story with your pitch deck.

What should I send investors? Part 1: Elevator Pitch and Part 2: Deck by Venture Hacks

Get a first meeting with an elevator pitch.

A great elevator pitch is more important than your deck and less important than the “introducer”. If you don’t have an introduction, the elevator pitch is critical to a cold call.

An introduction sells the investor on reading the elevator pitch, which sells the investor on reading the deck, which sells the investor on taking a meeting. Many investors will just skim the deck and take a meeting if the introduction and elevator pitch are good.

A PowerPoint plan (“deck”) is less important than an elevator pitch, and an elevator pitch is less important than an introduction. Read What should I send investors? Part 1: Elevator Pitch for tips on crafting an elevator pitch. Many investors will just skim a deck and take a meeting if the introduction and elevator pitch are good.

But you can still send a deck. A deck lets investors learn more about your company. It demonstrates that you’ve thought about the company in detail. It’s an industry norm. And you need one for presentations anyway.

What we learned about pitching to investors from running demo days in NYC by Peter Thomson

Since I joined SeedInvest, I’ve been helping companies to prepare their presentation for our investor demo days in New York. Once a month we invite companies that are listed on SeedInvest to present their companies in an in-person demo day format. We limit each pitch to five minutes, which keeps the message simple, focused, and straightforward.