Founder Unfriendly: A LIVE Pitch Deck Teardown

​Deck submissions here: https://nextnyc.typeform.com/to/JN1h9V8V

​Most founders treat pitch feedback like something to survive. Get through the meeting, escape with your ego intact, never actually find out what the investor thought.

​That's backwards.

​The founders who improve fastest are the ones who go hunting for the harshest read they can get.

​Our session is an hour of exactly that, in public from Charlie O'Donnell, a formerly active VC for 20 years and author of Founder Unfriendly: What Investors Won't Tell You About Getting Funded, the bestselling reality check for founders raising.

​Charlie will choose a deck ahead of time and take it apart live in front of an audience. No softening, no "this is great, but." The point is that you know what's coming before you sign up, and you sign up anyway.

​It sounds like a nightmare — pitching while someone dismantles your slides in real time, then watching it get shared afterward. It's also the fastest way to find every weak assumption, every slide that's carrying nothing, and every place a real investor would pass on you and never bother to tell you why.

And if you can't stand the idea of doing this in public, Charlie runs private paid workshops. More info about that here: https://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/fundraising-pitch-feedback-for-startups