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Designer Fund's Guide to Building a Winning VC Pitch Deck

If you’re looking to land VC funding for your company, one of the smartest investments you can make is to build a stellar pitch deck. We share what we think truly makes a great deck—and where and why founders go wrong.

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  • Company Building
  • Hiring and Managing Designers
  • Craft and Practice
  • Fundraising

Category 01

Company Building

  • What You Need to Know Before Becoming a Designer Founder
  • Climate Tech Primer for Founders
  • A Guide for Working with Design Freelancers and Creative Studios

Category 02

Hiring and Managing Designers

  • The Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Startup Design Team
  • How to Succeed as a Design Manager at a Startup
  • Designer Fund Job Board
  • A Founders' Guide to Hiring your First Designer

Category 03

Craft and Practice

  • The ROI of Branding: Best Practices for a High-Impact Project
  • Stripe: Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech
  • 3 Tips for Designing Behavior Change
  • To Drive Growth, Dive into Data
  • How to Use Photography in Branding
  • How to Use Photography in UI
  • Approachable, Human Design: How an Illustrator & Letterer Bring a Brand to Life

Category 04

Fundraising

  • Designer Fund Guide to Designing Your Fundraising Process
  • Designer Fund's Guide to Building a Winning VC Pitch Deck

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