Last week I wrote about pitch deck does and don’ts. This week we’ll take a look at the structure of the presentation.

One word of caution: If you ask 10 investors what they want to see you will get 10 different answers. However, the differences are usually small. What is important is that you keep your deck short and below 15 slides. The deck should be able to stand on its own. Often, slides can be consolidated so that you end up with 11 or 12 slides:

This is a two part series about pitch decks, what to do and what not to do, and what a pitch deck needs to include (and what not).

A pitch deck’s purpose is to open doors. It is similar to a resume in that sense. If investors want to learn more after looking at your pitch deck you reached your goal.

Despite uncertainty over the NAFTA agreement, German engineering company Bosch plans to build a new plant in Mexico’s state of Guanajuato. The company will invest EUR100 million (~USD124 million) and add another 1,200 employees to its 16,000 workers in Mexico.

“Did you just wake up one morning and ask yourself: What is possibly the hardest thing you can do?” I get that question a lot. I am Andreas Kraemer, Co-Managing Partner at MITA Ventures, a cross-border venture capital fund that invests in Mexico and broader Latin America.

In business (and in life), timing is everything. Being at the right place at the right time can determine whether your business is going to be successful or fail. In this brief article I’d like to present a few examples where timing is everything, and how to increase your chances that you are at the right place at the right time. Given my extensive work with tech startups I am using this industry as an example, however the conclusions and advise applies to many other situations as well.