Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

If you have another 15–20 super detailed slides they should either be in an appendix after you get through the main presentation or in a separate deck that you may or may not get out. These additional slides are often called “pocket slides” as in you have them in your pocket in case you need to pull them out. Don’t send these?—?go

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

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. What is the timeframe for the exit?

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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. But I find when you don’t assign slides that each person owns often the quiet team members get silenced. It’s OK to attend a first meeting on your own but eventually people want to meet the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. Hand out copies of the slides before the presentation for note taking, with proper cover sheet, with brochures, product samples, or other marketing material you may have.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

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. Can always appoint other startup CEOs to the board to take founder seats (which you control) and/or bring in industry experts as independents. It’s all in this deck in a prettier format.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

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. If you really get nervous and are afraid you’ll forget your lines have one 3X5 cue card in your hands for each slide. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. The audience will love you.

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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.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

slide 29). 70% of Korean population has Internet speeds > 5mbps (and avg = 15 mbps) – don’t bet that the Koreans won’t innovate on online content (slide 30). Larger online game market ($1 billion) than Japan despite 1/3 population and 1/2 GDP per capital (slide 99). Way ahead of the US on mobile gifting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

Remember that most people are visual thinkers and Powerpoint slides simply help frame the conversations. You should have 10-12 slides and anything else that is detailed should be in your appendix. The “exit&# slide is controversial but as I discuss in the video – necessary no matter what anybody else tells you.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2011

I am a big believer in VC pitches that the bio slide should come up front. I wanted to write a quick post on a pet peeve that I have when teams present “who they are” whether in a bio slide or just in the up front introductions. Actually, I think the advice in this post applies to any sales meeting also. I hate this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Too many sales reps walk into customer meetings with their pre-canned sales decks and proudly squawk through 30 of their favorite slides without engaging the customer in a discussion. 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.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2010

The report consists of: The Mobile Internet Report Summary Slides – a 92-slide presentation that provides highlights on the key themes The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes – a 659-slide presentation that drills down a bit more The Mobile Internet Report – a 424 page report which explores 8 major themes in depth and includes the two aforementioned (..)

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2017

No slides, no props, no costumes (Ok, maybe costumes.) A reminder that I’ll be holding a micro-meetup at Boomtown on Broadway in Boulder, Colorado on Wednesday, March 29th at 7pm. You’ll have 2 minutes to pitch in front of two local judges and then 2 minutes of questions. Boomtown is at 2060 Broadway B1 in the basement.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I said (out loud), “I sure wish that some of the time that went into these PowerPoint slides would have gone into meetings with the COO, CFO or CMO of [Elephant Customer].&# We missed our sales target by more than 66% for the year but we had great slides explaining why. After a few board meetings I finally spoke up.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2009

Separately, Katalyst and Slide said that it will release the season finale for the firm's online series KatalystHQ on Slide's FunSpace site Wednesday. Slide has been the exclusive distributor of the KatalystHQ series on its FunSpace site, since February. KatalystHQ is a parody of Kutcher's production office.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

If you present slide after slide and if this becomes a download of too much information and not enough of a discussion then people’s attention spans wane. The best board meetings are discussions and debates about the business yet many executive teams spent their time wanting to walk through hours of slides on how great they’re doing.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Santa Monica-based video game publisher behind popular games such as “Call of Duty” and “Overwatch” saw its profits decline more than 18% from this time last year, reporting a net income of $328 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

They had slides with moving images and music. If you really get nervous and are afraid you’ll forget your lines have one 3X5 cue card in your hands for each slide. The best way to manage to a time is: a) practice with a stop watch and b) have less slides than you think you’ll need. One strategy I often employ.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time? R : Referral - Do they like it enough to tell their friends? R : Revenue - Can you monetize any of this behavior?

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Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

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

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Aperio, a maker of digital pathology and slide digitization systems, and Leica had announced the deal on August 21st. The acquisition of Vista, California-based Aperio by German firm Leica Biosystems has completed, the firms said Thursday. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers). I tried to visualize how I was going to hit such a precise presentation where you get 20 seconds per slide and then they get auto forwarded.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The stock price for Snap Inc. hit a new low — falling 6.4 percent to $7 a share – after a report described the Santa Monica social media company as “quickly running out of money.”

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Slides Pricing Report Santa Monica 113

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

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2011

If the other party asks you to send them your slides, find out why they need them. If it is to inform others in their organization, set up a subsequent meeting in which you present the slides and lead the discussion. At the end of the call, he requested that we, “send him the slides and a proposal.”.

Startup 216

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Each month, at the monthly company lunch for all, I’d greet everyone with “Hello shareholders”, and proceed to show the assembled throng slides of high level financial statements, pointing out progress against plan.

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Slides News Equity Writing 243

L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Tinder announced on Thursday that it had acquired Wheel, a video-and-picture slide show app developer, for an undisclosed amount.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

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. I outlined what investors expect to see in an old article “ Adding Slides Does Not Enhance Your Investor Pitch. Then match your pace to cover all the material.

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Slides Funding Technical Review Startup 147

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

You put some update slides on things like key hires or biz dev deals being negotiated and you didn’t plan to talk about them. But they were in a slide and people asked you questions so it ended up chewing up 30 minutes. You didn’t intend it to happen that way.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

BRoadcom said that TiVo is using its Broadcom Bluetooth technology as part of the new TiVo Slide QWERTY keyboard remote control, the first TiVo remote to feature Bluetooth. Shipment volumes and expected financial impact of the win were not disclosed by Broadcom. READ MORE>>.

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Design Slides Report Technology 140

Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2014

Immediately, I can tell how to orient the explanations behind my pre-cast slides, based upon the response. When I give a keynote address, I often start by asking my audience, by raise of hands, to tell me how many are angel or VC investors, and how many are entrepreneurs, how many are service providers such as attorneys.

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Slides Startup Venture Capital Organization 201

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Chumby's software runs mini apps for viewing stock quotes, weather, video clips, slide show, and other information. ,/p>. According to the firm, its app--available on the Android Market for $4.99--brings the firm's software to Android 2.2

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Avalon Slides San Diego Software 160

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Because management is so important I always tell people to make the bio slide the first in your deck. If you haven’t read my post on the bio slide before here it is. I never feel that way. If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I decided we''d patent a sliding mechanism on our Bluetooth, and use 3D printers to take pictures that people send to us, and my company will design a Bluetooth based on their picture, on our 3D printer. It dawned on me that I could, with 3D printing. That''s the idea behind the 3D printing concept.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

And having frameworks is a useful way to standardize your customer studies so that highly intelligent, inexperienced young people can crank out PowerPoint slides with such authority and beautiful consistency. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper.

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