[tferris]

Always when I see such exceptional HTML based pitch decks (the last one was from a wedding thing, don't know the name anymore) I am on the fence: They look so damn good and for sure you get attention en masse (today you should get 20K from HN and many VC related people).

BUT:

- Isn't this a hell of work? A good JS/frontend guy should need at least one or rather two weeks? Please tell us how many people did this gem of a presentation in how many days .

- The pitch deck is basically an evolution—everytime you meet a VC, an angel or whoever the deck gets better due to their feedback—after 2-3 months it's perfect. This means that you need some good presentation software where you can quickly add and change content all the time (nowadays it's Keynote which is both fast and makes stylish presentation with ease).

- And my last point (which is a matter of taste): if you go public with your pitch deck, you are public and the surprise effect if you approach VCs after you went stealth for months is gone. I think latter is pretty important, when something is public, everybody knows it, incentives are smaller to make intros and get angel/advisory shares and finally you have also the risk that you don't get funded and the pitch quickly wears off (in your case with your stats I wouldn't worry but still for startups in earlier stages this may be not the right path; anyway I am wondering that you did this presentation because your stats are so incredibly good and skyrocketing that you'd need only this one stats chart attached to your an email).

So, isn't it better to spend time and effort instead for a great parallax HTML JS page landing page for the actual users of your site??

Or you just want to put a VC who you currently talk to under pressure to get a better valuation (by getting more leads and offers).

[piccsydaniel]

Thanks for the <3

Yes, it is a lot of work. Creative Director + Copywriter + Art Director/Designer + Developer.

The deck is dynamic, we can change it pretty easy. And/or, we can present with Keynote or whatever else alternatively in person.

We want to make as many VCs aware of our upcoming raise as possible. This seemed like a smart way to do it :)

[backspace]

While your pitch deck is beautiful (no argument here), your usability is less than average. If those navigational elements are meant to be sections, why do you not support back/forward navigation?

As an investor, these sorts of omissions make me doubt if your team is detail oriented (not just in the design sense) and will be able to make a product that is truly intuitive and easy-to-use (because honestly that's all that you're pitching).

[beshrkayali]

I wouldn't say this is too much work actually. It's beautifully designed and coded but a decent designer/coder duo can probably finish this in a week, iterations can happen after.

I believe they must have some sort of a Keynote presentation that is evolving constantly, to show in meetings or so. This thing is for showing off maybe.

My personal opinion is heck yeah it's worth it! I mean, even if it turns out to be not such a good idea for startups to consider, it's innovative if they have some good plans for growing -I believe they do considering that the founder is already in this field (vizualize.me)- it would be like creating some sort of a startups meme.

[dustinrodrigues]

I believe you're referring to http://investors.dressrush.com/

[Stares_at_You]

The most cursory glance at that pitch, and one fact shone out:

Cost to acquire customer: $0.55

Long term customer value: 5-7x of "cost to acquire".

Either my English comprehension is declining with age, or someone just shot themselves in the foot.

They list revenue of $2750 - 3850 for 1,000 customers.

That's ATROCIOUS. Groupon-land.

If that's the state of quality of companies, no wonder the whole market is crumbling.

[piccsydaniel]

Also a great deck, the inspiration to create ours!