socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The group--which is run out of Los Angeles, and is made up of the former team of Panache--said it has added a new Social Slide Bar, Action Button, and Click-to-Long Play formats, all designed to help advertisers engage viewers with video advertising. 24/7 Media acquired Los Angeles-based Panache in December of 2011.

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Media Slides Social Media Advertising 154

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Avoid PowerPoint and graphic slide presentations. He, like Steve Jobs, believes the process of generating a short written narrative forces a clarity of thinking not found in visual slide presentations. As a side benefit, Amazon has ranked as #1 for customer satisfaction for many years in a row.

Slides 137

Slides Customer Custom Satisfaction 137

InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

If you are forced to display financial data, ensure that the slides are unintelligible. An effective method to incite Death By PowerPoint is to deploy an extraordinary number of slides. A minimum of 20 to 30 slides per minute is a reasonable rule of thumb. Limit the use of pictures or graphs on your slides.

Slides 220

Slides Tips Startup RSS 220

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Alelo--which originally spun out of USC--said they have been partially funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build a project called VRP (Virtual role-playing) Builder, which is aimed at helping to make it easier to develop virtual role playing-based learning courses.

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USC Technology Slides Training 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

She presents a roadmap to help us navigate this new business landscape, retaining the best of the old, while innovating the path to success. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that numbers and text on a slide with a bar graph won’t. Good stories make us think and make us feel.

Commerce 109

Commerce Slides Customer Custom 109

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Help us to get to know him or her. It’s OK to throw in some facts & figures that people won’t remember because giving people numbers helps them understand the magnitude of the problem you’re solving. Don’t write sentences on them – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say.

Slides 399

Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides. Even the best behaved of recipients can’t help themselves but to flip ahead to see what’s coming. The worst behaved will literally never be on the slide you’re presenting.

Tips 392

Tips Screening Slides Venture Capital 392

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Assign out slides: The best way to involve your team members is to assign out slides they will own. Help them prepare and practice. But I find when you don’t assign slides that each person owns often the quiet team members get silenced. Weave in their pitch to an overall pitch narrative.

Venture Capital 377

Venture Capital Slides Course Summary 377

InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

If you are forced to display financial data, ensure that the slides are unintelligible. An effective method to incite Death By PowerPoint is to deploy an extraordinary number of slides. A minimum of 20 to 30 slides per minute is a reasonable rule of thumb. Limit the use of pictures or graphs on your slides.

Slides 154

Slides Tips Startup Research 154

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. I think the norm in the industry is still to see Powerpoint slides and I wouldn’t hold this against anybody.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

The “competition slide&# of your investment deck is such a great opportunity to talk about how you’re positioned (premium product vs. economical product? Here’s some thoughts on the competition slide and also how to talk about it: Competition. The Harvey Ball slide should in a way just be a depiction of this strategy.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Slides Competition Education 313

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

So I naturally spend much time with the companies in which I invest helping them: recruit. Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare. figure out roles. measure performance / quality of team. identify gaps. and so forth.

Startup 388

Startup Slides Outsource Development Sales 388

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. It’s up to you to build that relationship by listening to their needs and concerns, and offering help where you can. Provide regular feedback on execution and results.

Coach 145

Coach Slides Social Network Metrics 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even if it’s only a few PowerPoint slides or typed paragraphs, writing something down is the first step toward making it real. Before you know it, you will have a ten-slide pitch that you can use to gauge interest from potential customers, as well as friends, family, and early investors.

Ideas 99

Ideas Slides Writing Startup 99

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

For extroverted people I recommend that entrepreneurs have an “executive summary&# slide up front that cuts to the chase. Don’t dwell on this slide for ever. If I have an hour with you I want to maximise the time we have a discussion so I want to get through the slides quickly. It’s in their personality type.

Slides 358

Slides Venture Capital Startup Summary 358

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

They would use that funding to help them accelerate the development and manufacturing of the next generation of Bluetooth headsets. The campaign will help Deka create custom 3D printed headsets and launch a number of stylish designs and colors. Users select the headset cover they want and simply slide it over the earpiece.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Slides Design 89

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I also recently wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. If you’re not “feeling it&# then you need to get to the slides or demo quickly as a means of trying to engage. I need something structured like slides or a demo to orient me.

Venture Capital 238

Venture Capital Slides Startup Sales 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

I think it may be helpful to think about your relationships as “continuous boards” in which you more frequently send texts or emails or do short update calls to keep investors in sync on the changes in your business. In each board meeting it is helpful to think through what your goals are. Most of the time this is a bad idea.

Startup 234

Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team.

Tips 212

Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2021

She presents a roadmap to help us navigate this new business landscape, retaining the best of the old, while innovating the path to success. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that numbers and text on a slide with a bar graph won’t. Good stories make us think and make us feel.

Customer 140

Customer Custom Slides Commerce 140

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Having a methodology instead of just going on random sales visits helped force a bit of rigor and honesty amongst team members about how well or not we thought we were doing. And then there’s the key transition slide, which I call “What We Find” (WWF) or some variation of this. Just watch Mad Men and you’ll know that.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the right focus on search engine optimization, or the help of companies like ReputationDefender , you can usually push negative links out of sight into the swamp of the Internet. On the other hand, if you let your reputation slide early to be “cool,” it may take a lifetime to recover. Remove unwanted content, where possible.

Search Engine Optimization 163

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 163

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2009

ScanDigital helps consumers digitize their boxes of photos, slides, movies, and video; Pixily helps convert paper documents into a digital archive, and is aimed at home offices and small businesses. According to the firms, they will cross promote their services. Financial details of the cross promotion deal were not disclosed.

El Segundo 133

El Segundo Slides Services Help 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2022

Dini, tied together several threads I have often seen in my own experience of mentoring and helping aspiring entrepreneurs. Only a few of these slide into farming, as the company grows in employees and products. Dini makes the case that entrepreneurs are hunters, while the rest of us (large majority) are farmers.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Marketing News Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

A narrow scope doesn’t help your case either. So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace?

Competition 166

Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The number is much higher for those who choose to go it alone, without help. I recommend a ten-slide pitch to start, reviewed by friends and advisors, to be expanded to a ten-to-twenty-page business plan with opportunity sizing, cost and price details, competitors, marketing and sales strategy, financial projections, and resources required.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Maybe it helps that I love controversy and pushing the boundaries so people felt it was OK for them to do it as well. but there are some people you just take an (extra) liking to and want to help. I was blunt (warning: that sometimes happens with me) and told him not to bother and that I wasn’t prepared to help with angels.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

No amount of tracking when she read your deck is going to truly help you get inside her head so those benefits are oversold. There are a million ways to make graphics lighter or resize your file without a huge impact on the quality of the slides?—?after I’m sure that some VCs and others do love online viewers when they read a deck.

Funding 239

Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

It always started the same way – a founder would ask for an intro because they figured he could help with promotion. Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet. They make a great pair.

Conference 150

Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2010

I recently wrote a post on how to ask for help or favors from people. This is a related post that will not only help you get the results you want more effectively but will also help earn the respect of your senior people (whether management or your board). As your senior manager I’m happy to help you any time you need.

Slides 342

Slides Help Ideas Venture Capital 342

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Wolpert is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry, helps to run technology accelerator Amplify, and has been involved in countless other startup ventures. One was a blip way back in mid February which I thought would be the start to a big slide but it wasn't.

Southern California 100

Southern California Startup Slides News 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2021

They never think they have "arrived"—because they know that once they think that, they'll start sliding back to the place from which they came. It helps them move from success to significance. They are always looking for ways to learn, apply, improve, and grow. They stay humble and hungry. They are lifelong learners.

Training 121

Training Slides Pricing Entrepreneur 121

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

.&# In many of the meetings you’d meet clients who would tell you everything you needed to know, would offer to help you and then would never follow up on the help that they had offered. And he was one of those guys that you meet and you just want to help because he’s so earnest and nice. He had a family.

Startup 378

Startup Framework Slides Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. If you can’t get the message across in ten minutes, more time and more charts won’t help. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful.

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

The role of these investment staff varies firm-to-firm but they often entail: Sourcing deals for partners Helping with initial deal screening with a partner Helping with due diligence (competitive assessments, customer calls, reference checking, market sizing, technology reviews, etc.) Maybe they even help you meet other partners?

Venture Capital 314

Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2016

Fool A Fool – I sold surgical robots from PowerPoint slides in the early 1990’s, before the robots existed. These conversations are helpful, but we attribute more value to discussions with customers who came upon the company’s product on their own. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse. Image credit: Shutterstock.

Venture Capital 176

Venture Capital Product Software Review Technical Review 176

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. This approach generally works well with customers because I find it much easier to build rapport when we talk like humans than when we all stare at the PowerPoint slides being projected on the wall.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274