Every deck a startup
runs on.
The decks a startup actually ships: to investors, to customers, to the board, to hires. One narrative shape, taught across seven tracks.
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Benchmarks cited to the firms that set them: Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, First Round, Gong, and DocSend's own research.
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The library
Pick your deck by purpose
012 tracks
Raise money
Decks that get investors to a yes.
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022 tracks
Grow revenue
Decks that move buyers and partners.
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032 tracks
Run the company
Decks that keep boards and backers in sync.
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Full course · Track 01 of 07
Start here: the fundraising deck
The 10-15 slides seed and Series A investors actually read. Eleven modules, anchored to DocSend's ~3:44 average investor read.
Investor benchmark
3:44
Average time an investor spends on a seed deck during a first cold read. DocSend measured this across 200 funded seed decks; we use it as the attention budget every module is sized against.
200
seed decks measured
DocSend, 2015
$360M
capital raised by that cohort
DocSend, 2015
23s
peak dwell on Team / Ask slides
DocSend per-slide data