What’s the biggest problem you face after sending a pitch deck to investors?

I hunted @Interactpitch yesterday and that inspired me to write this thread.

After you send your pitch deck to an investor… what usually goes wrong?

From my experience, it’s rarely the deck itself. It’s what happens after you hit send.

Some patterns I keep seeing:

• You have no idea if they even opened it

• They skim it in 2 minutes and jump to conclusions

• They focus on the wrong slide in the first call

• You walk into the meeting reacting instead of leading

• Feedback is vague: “Interesting, let’s stay in touch”

• Or worse... total silence 👻

The most frustrating part for me has been the lack of context.

You don’t know:

• What resonated

• What confused them

• What they discussed internally

• What questions came up before the call

So the first meeting ends up being a guessing game instead of a real conversation.

What’s been your biggest frustration with sending pitch decks?