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by PaulHoule 1674 days ago
If you're trying to explain anything new you need to be able to it in many different levels of detail.

You need to describe the pain you relieve in a sentence. For one venture I was involved, "Get the Government Off My Back" was the slogan. Not to overthrow or deprecate the government but to give Caesar what is Caesar's and be done with it.

You need to process and reprocess your material until you have a deck, not just to communicate with VC's but also to communicate with customers, vendors, potential employees, etc.

The #1 fear I have with any A.I. venture is that the solution will reach some certain level of accuracy which is not good enough and won't get past it. I think of all the flying machines people made before the Wright brothers, who were the first people to understand that you have to control roll, pitch and yaw or else you'll tumble. You've got to have a realistic plan to solve all the problems on the way to product-market fit and have that reflected in a deck.