Get Backed by Evan Baehr and Evan Loomis is a great book for any entrepreneur who expects to raise equity funding for his business.
Not only does the book explain the mechanical and definitional aspects of the fund raising process, but more importantly it teaches the relational realities necessary to be successful in building your venture. The teaching/writing style is gentle and encouraging and the authors use plenty of real-world stories and examples to help the reader get a true sense for what it looks like when done right. This book is one of the best at teaching how to build a pitch deck, and yet it is so much more. I strongly recommend it to anyone involved in raising money for any venture.
I also recommend reading Part Two before reading Part One. I’ve had this book for more than 5 years. I’ve really appreciated the first part of the book and recommended it to others as a great guide for how to build a pitch deck. But I had never actually read the book until now. Part Two explains the key things an entrepreneur needs to understand about raising funding. This is at least as important as knowing how to put together a pitch deck and without this background, building the deck lacks the context to approach the exercise with the subtlety needed to truly connect with potential investors.