What Business Pitches and Sex Have in Common

What do business pitching and sex have in common? Well with certain exceptions, not a whole lot of people get to see you engage in either of them. Really, how do you stack up against the competition in the boardroom? (Or bedroom for that matter.)

You might have seen Facebook's original ad sales deck from 2004 which is a fascinating archeological find.

But Business Insider seems able to get their hands on VC pitch decks fairly often, and I'm always interested to see how big and not so big names actually pitch and design their slides.

Here's a recent one from Buffer, a social media startup. What it lacks in design and visual storytelling, it makes up for in simplicity and clarity.

 

And this 18 slide deck from Dwolla netted the founders $16.5 million in startup funds.

 

And finally, take a look at AirBnB's investor pitch deck. Not bad...except for the incorrectly sized data bubbles...