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A Fast Company column arguing that AI-generated pitch decks have become indistinguishable, and asking whether founders should ditch the deck altogether.
Design and prototyping tool used across the industry, with a free Starter plan that covers design files, FigJam whiteboards and slides. Useful for portfolios, pitch decks, wireframes and simple brand assets.
Why I recommend it: Free Starter plan has limits on the number of files and collaborators, and some features (Dev Mode, advanced Figma Make usage) sit on paid seats. Enough for one person building a portfolio or deck without paying.
The actual 2004 pitch deck Reid Hoffman used to raise LinkedIn's Series B, with his annotations explaining each slide.
From the site: 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.
Why I recommend it: One of the few real pitch decks published with the reasoning attached. Read the annotations more than the slides — they show what a room of investors was actually asking.
Generates decks, documents, and simple sites from a prompt or outline. The free plan covers pitch practice and portfolio pages.
Why I recommend it: Clients use this constantly for pitch decks and one-pagers. Start on the free plan and see if you outgrow it.
What investors expect at each stage, how terms and valuations work, and how to prepare a raise in the current funding climate.
From the site: Great ideas from dedicated teams can find solutions, yet breakthroughs can fail due to the one resource needed to propel growth: money.
Why I recommend it: Read this before you assume you need VC. Most of the businesses I mentor are better off with revenue, grants, or an SBA loan.
Two pitch decks compared side by side: Airbnb's 10-slide deck that raised $600K, and Fyre Festival's deck, whose company later faced fraud charges, plus sample GitHub work to use as a model for your own portfolio.
In plain terms: This guide compares successful and failed pitch decks from Airbnb and Fyre Festival alongside real GitHub profiles. You can use these examples to learn how to present business ideas clearly and structure your own technical portfolio.
Why I recommend it: One idea per slide. Problem, solution, evidence. Decoration never closed a round.
Created by Justin Smith — Launchpad Library
Free, good-looking pitch deck and one-pager templates you can edit in minutes.
In plain terms: This website offers free templates for pitch decks and one-page overviews. You can quickly customize the designs to present your business ideas.
Why I recommend it: Ten slides, one idea per slide. Design is not your bottleneck — clarity is.
