You should NEVER send out your full deck to either audience. Ok, never say never, but please don’t. Here are the Guidelines:
- Whittle Down the Deck – Choose 5-8 ESSENTIAL slides to send out – don’t give away everything but intrigue them enough to see that they NEED a meeting with you. (Possible choice for Investor Deck: 1) Problem 2) Solution 3) Traction 4) Market 5) Competition 6) Biz Model 7) Team 8) Ask)
- Add Some Text – While a presented deck should keep words to a minimum because you are there to explain, you must add some text to the slides so they can read a bit and understand a bit more
- PDF It! – Do not let any documents related to your startup out of your computer without PDF’ing first. I’m not saying that a PDF makes it foolproof, but at least you know it’s keeping its format and it will be harder to copy paste chunks