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Designer Fund's Guide to Building a Winning VC Pitch Deck

If you’re looking to land VC funding for your company, one of the smartest investments you can make is to build a stellar pitch deck. We share what we think truly makes a great deck—and where and why founders go wrong.

For Founders

Designer Fund Guide to Designing Your Fundraising Process

For Founders

Stripe: Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech

Hiring

The Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Startup Design Team

  • For Founders
  • Design Management & Leadership
  • Hiring
  • Career Guidance
  • Craft
  • Culture

Category 01

For Founders

  • Designer Fund Guide to Designing Your Fundraising Process
  • How to Build a Design-Forward Company: Lessons from Northstar’s Will Peng
  • Designer Fund's Guide to Building a Winning VC Pitch Deck
  • What You Need to Know Before Becoming a Designer Founder
  • Building Design Teams From the Ground Up
  • Stripe: Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech
  • Designer for Business Impact Case Studies
  • Climate Tech Primer for Founders
  • A Guide for Working with Design Freelancers and Creative Studios
  • The Future of Design Entrepreneurship

Category 02

Design Management & Leadership

  • How to Succeed as a Design Manager at a Startup
  • Driving Impact Through Design: A Fireside Chat with Alissa Briggs
  • Design for Business Impact Case Study Library
  • A Design Team’s Guide to Leveling
  • 3 Ways To Be A Better Design Leader
  • Achieving Alignment in the Design Process
  • How to Communicate the ROI of Design
  • Design Critiques: How to Maintain Trust at Scale
  • Thrown into Management: Lessons Learned Leading Thumbtack’s Design Team
  • How to Create a Process Map for Your Team
  • Level Up: A Framework for Growing High-Performing Design Teams

Category 03

Hiring

  • The Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Startup Design Team
  • Designer Fund Job Board
  • A Founders' Guide to Hiring your First Designer
  • How I Build Effective Design Teams

Category 04

Career Guidance

  • Climate Tech Guide for Designers
  • How to Ace Your Portfolio Presentation
  • Going Pro – What it Takes to be a Lead Designer at a Top Startup
  • How to Understand and Negotiate Your Startup Compensation
  • 5 Dos and Don’ts for Your Design Portfolio
  • The Right Way to Accept a Job Offer
  • A Designer’s Guide to Working in Tech

Category 05

Craft

  • The ROI of Branding: Best Practices for a High-Impact Project
  • 3 Tips for Designing Behavior Change
  • To Drive Growth, Dive into Data
  • How to Use Photography in Branding
  • How to Use Photography in UI
  • Approachable, Human Design: How an Illustrator & Letterer Bring a Brand to Life

Category 06

Culture

  • How Rules and Repetition Inspire Creativity
  • How to Use Space to Change Behavior
  • Respect the Maker: How to Weave Creativity Back into Your Day to Day
  • Shaping Design Culture

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