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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. Start with the problem and your solution.

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10 Keys To Limiting Your Startup Story To Ten Minutes

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. Start with the problem and your solution.

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AnyMeeting Acquired, Say Insiders

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AnyMeeting offers up an online service which lets users run webinars, run online meetings, share screens and slides, and much more. AnyMeeting got its start as Freebinar. CEO Costin Tuculescu said in an email that "We don't have anything to announce at this time." READ MORE>>.

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How to Nail a Group Presentation

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Many of them have their iPhones and laptops ready to command their attention the moment that you start sucking. Stories have starts, middles and ends. I They all start to blend together. In any speech I do that is information rich I often have a summary slide at the end with the key points I want them to remember.

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Quick Practical, Tactical Tips for Presentations

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It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides. If you look at Diagram A above you’ll see that the presenters are sitting at the opposite end of the table from where the screen is. Sitting by the screen is the best excuse. We didn’t realize.&#

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I’ll put up the video when they post it on their website. Stories have starts, middles and ends.

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10 Setup Steps To A Compelling Startup Presentation

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. Start with the problem and your solution.

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