The 10 Slide Investor Pitch

Guy Kawasaki has long said that he would never invest in a business that couldn't make its case in 10 slides. While I'm no venture capitalist like Guy, I've seen plenty of pitch and investor decks that had no hope of getting investment—and one of the common themes was far too many slides. When you don't understand your business well enough to explain it simply, or if your business model is so complicated that it can't be explained simply, then why would an outside want to invest?Guy revisits his 10-slide maxim in the below Entrepreneur article.