Not a bad idea, but this is a feature, not a company.
I think LinkedIn already shipped something like this.
Customizing the shared preview for each reader based on their interest profiles? That’s more interesting. But still just a feature for Facebook, Google, and the other content aggregators.
Not a bad idea, but this is a feature, not a company.
I think LinkedIn already shipped something like this.
Customizing the shared preview for each reader based on their interest profiles? That’s more interesting. But still just a feature for Facebook, Google, and the other content aggregators.
Read a summary of The Cold Start Problem.
Make the product useful from the start, even for a single user, or focus on a specialized niche of users.
Social discovery platforms rely on heavy network effects. See if you can find examples of startups that have succeeded in this space. You’ll find very few.
A $20 asset library will get you something useably professional pretty quickly. If your team, vision, and early market validation are good enough, investors will forgive a some roughness. These are some good templates for ~$20: https://www.slidecow.com/
That gets you to 80/100.
We then hired professionals for $2000+ to polish it for a big pitch event. I hated spending that much, but the result was worth it. We would’ve looked amateurish next to the series A companies with truly professional decks.
That’s 98/100.
The best deck I’ve seen was made by former Apple designers and animators. Not worth it unless your company’s design skills are core to what you’re pitching.
The most important thing is that you have a graph that goes up and to the right. As long as it’s the right shape, it doesn’t matter if you made it with Google charts.
Can confirm. Acquirer promised a significant earnout, then found ways to claim none of their revenue fell under the acquisition terms. Investors and founders got screwed.
Earnouts are good in theory, but it better be written exceedingly clearly, and you should count on spending a ton on lawyers to enforce it.