LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

&quot;You have the most attention from investors in the first 60 seconds of your pitch, so how you begin is incredibly important. One common mistake is putting the team slide early in the deck. The team behind your idea is critical, but don’t open with that. Instead, open with the investment thesis.&quot;<p>Great piece of advice, so obvious in retrospect and at odds with many other pitch guidelines out there, that suggest you <i>start</i> with the management team &#x2F; &quot;company snapshot&quot;.

Interesting data from the &quot;LinkedIn is the Market Leader&quot; slide (data from 8&#x2F;04):<p>- Friendster is the largest social network. - Facebook is not present.<p>Something to keep in mind when considering how much emphasis to place on existing competition in a market.

I would love to see a visual representation of the relationship between pitch deck length and successful raise. I was surprised by the length of this deck.

Love this post. Only about a fifth of the way through it right now (@work), but I&#x27;m definitely going to peruse the rest later and bookmark it for when I make my own pitch deck here soon!

Wow this is fantastic! Not only are the slides included, but a detailed and helpful analysis of each slide as well.

Wow, the design looks much worse than I would have expected from LinkedIn.

I know what a lot of future startup pitch decks will look like :)

am I the only one who is surprised at how ugly it is?

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this on HN.<p>This one line is simply bang on at so many levels:<p><i>...we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.</i><p>And seemingly relevant in the current climate of 2013 again.

A much better system would be printing money to fund startups, instead of our current, print money to fund debts.