Limit your pitch deck to 10 slides or less, tell a story and demo your product (see post here).

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Pedro Hernandez relieved, and Buck drove a full-count pitch into the second deck of seats above left-center field to stretch the lead to 10-2.

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Index Ventures--a backer of Facebook, Dropbox and online retail sites Etsy and ASOS--had called her in 2010, when Amoruso had no deck, no pitch.

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