If you are going to submit slides or a bplan, recognize that once it’s out of your hands, it’s out of your hands. The document must be clear enough to stand by itself. Therefore graphs/charts should be labeled with the knowledge they want to provide. A chart with a diagonal line labeled “revenues”, is pretty meaningless. The same chart with the label “20% yearly growth” says something else, and the label “Break Even in 30 months” conveys more information. Note that the numbers are all the same, the graph is the same, but the knowledge conveyed is different in each case. It is true the investor can do the work and come up with the same result. Problably the investor won’t do that unless you’re in that special group of folks who has already made the investor tons of money. If you’re in that group, you don’t need me to tell you how those guys think.