“Your slides are good, but you should change them all.”
In November, my co-founder Andrew and I started the process of raising money for our company Cornerstone AI. We put hours and hours into the slide deck, the detailed explanation of our product (automated AI-driven data cleaning), the financial model, etc. We did several practice investor pitches, but each time the feedback was a polite version of “I don’t really get the problem or why it is important”. It was a discouraging start. But we had partners who could help…