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Avoid Death By PowerPoint – Create Slides That Don’t Suck

InfoChachkie

As a venture capitalist, I am asked to provide feedback on a fair number of PowerPoint and Keynote slide decks. 9 Steps To Better Slides. Presentation slides serve two primary purposes. Presentation slides serve two primary purposes. One is to support a live presentation in which each slide is annotated verbally.

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How To Give A Horrendous Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

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.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion. The VC might have tried a few times to prompt a discussion and you didn’t take the queue but in stead reverted back to slides.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. Slice it up enough to do many posts.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 cheap accessible digital hardware].

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

. - 47 Hats , March 9, 2010 Seed funding best practices - StartupCFO , February 11, 2010 PowerPoint Is Evil, Redux - David Silverman , April 28, 2010 I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 The Scene Will Kill You - Brad Hargreaves , November 7, 2010 The Magic Word in Customer Development Emails - Kevin Dewalt , January (..)

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