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Pitching your business to investors often requires a pitch deck. Pitch decks typically contain between 10 to 20 slides and are designed to tell investors about your story, your brand, and your vision. Presenting a powerful and professional pitch deck can be the opening you need to secure funding. It’s therefore key that you know exactly what a pitch deck should contain, the best way to make yours stand out, and what trends to keep an eye on.

Thousands of small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) up and down the country are facing significant financial hardship. Inflation is at a record 40-year high, and the cost-of-living crisis is putting extra pressure on business owners. For many, just staying afloat is now a real challenge. For many small business owners, access to credit is a necessary part of business management, such as easing cash flow processes. And in today’s economic climate, many are turning to credit to weather the storm.

STEM efforts are too often associated with traditional education, such as school, college, and university education, rather than with the myriad alternative learning approaches that better meet the needs of a rapidly changing technology landscape.

If the past year has taught us anything it’s that sticking to the same business model and strategy just won’t do anymore. Many businesses have had to extend their offering to keep afloat such as moving their services online and some have had to completely alter their product temporarily until normal trading begins, whatever that new normal may be or look like. Some have even been online but are now considering bricks and mortar premises to enable them to re connect with their customers in a new, post-pandemic way.