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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Startup Professionals Musings

Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time.

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Alelo, USC Team On Virtual Learning Technology

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Los Angeles-based Alelo , which develops game-based, role playing simulations and teaching technology, says that it has partnered with the USC Institute for Creative Technologies , to co-develop disruptive learning technology. READ MORE>>.

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Adding Slides Does Not Enhance Your Investor Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Opportunity sizing.

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Startup's Technology Helps L'Oreal Target Ads Based On Hair Color

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Accoridng to L''Oreal Paris and GumGum, they are using image recognition technology to dynamically target product ads, based on hair color identified in photos of faces on its publisher partners'' sites. GumGum offers up in-image photo advertising technology, which slides in ads in photographs and images.

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Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation

Startup Professionals Musings

A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Most advisors will tell you to write the business plan first (20-30 pages), then distill the key points into a set of Microsoft PowerPoint slides for standup presentations to potential investors. Solution product & technology.

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10 Keys To Limiting Your Startup Story To Ten Minutes

Startup Professionals Musings

Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time.

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It’s A Tablet! It’s A PC! No! It’s The Samsung Sliding Tablet PC 7 Series

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Samsung announced the launch of its first sliding tablet PC with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and powered by the upcoming Intel Atom processor platform, currently code-named “Oak Trail,” the PC 7 Series. We first caught a glimpse of this beauty at the Microsoft Keynote the opening night of CES. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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