The PitchReady™ Blog
What investors actually read, why raises stall, and the maths behind the money — written for Australian founders and SMEs, sourced claim by claim. New pieces weekly.
Featured · Pitch deck
You get four minutes. Investors read twelve slides in a loose consensus — Sequoia, YC and the engagement data all point the same way. Here's the structure, slide by slide, with the receipts.
Read the guideStartup advice · 7 min
Story, deck, Q&A, targeting — the four failure modes, what they look like in the room, and the fix for each. With the post-mortem data that explains why "ran out of capital" is rarely the real cause.
Capital raising · Guide · 11 min
The round medians, who writes the cheques, the Corporations Act rules behind every offer, and the incentives that change the numbers. The Australian-specific guide the offshore playbooks don't write.
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