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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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 5, 2018

Through a slide-by-slide explanation of the investor deck, you will learn what turns investors on, what turns them off, and what investors absolutely abhor when founders are pitching them. The purpose of this workshop is to educate idea-to-early stage startups about investors, fundraising, and how to make a successful pitch.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How to leverage an option program: Each month, at the monthly company lunch for all at the main office, 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. Show everyone financials?

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2011

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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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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sophiris Bio said Monday that 10 patients who were administered its experimental prostate cancer drug a second time didn’t see any additional benefit. The news sent the San Diego, CA-based biotech’s stock plunging 40 percent.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 8, 2018

Through a slide-by-slide explanation of an investor pitch deck, learn what turns investors on, what turns them off, and what investors absolutely abhor when founders are pitching them. The purpose of this workshop is to educate you about investors, fundraising, and how to make a successful pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

Motherboard--citing an internal company slide presentation from Ring--said people were encouraged to report on their neighbors in exchange for discount codes and "swag" from Ring, after creating a new "Digital Neighborhood Watch" program.

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2020

Join JJ Richa in a fireside chat with Scott Fox, CEO of the OC Startup Council, for a discussion of the top mistakes that early stage entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups for funding.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have seen dramatic but volatile price surges during the past year. But this month their billions in estimated market value are eroding , amid widening suspicions against one trading platform, a half-billion-dollar heist from another exchange, and an awakened global regulatory community.

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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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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.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2020

housing market continues to slide due to the economic aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Irvine-based property data provider b> ATTOM Data Solutions reports that even more properties in the United States have fallen into what it calls the "zombie foreclosure realm" in Q3, as the U.S. According to ATTOM Data, it tracked 1.5

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

AnyMeeting offers up an online service which lets users run webinars, run online meetings, share screens and slides, and much more. CEO Costin Tuculescu said in an email that "We don't have anything to announce at this time." The company's investors include the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Keiretsu Forum, and Sand Hill Angels.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2019

An entrepreneur pitches using a deck with no slide for competition. If you are raising funds, list “do nothing” as a viable competitor in your slide deck. We investors see this all the time. When asked (as we always do,) the response is “This is new. We have no competition.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2011

I think you can get the gist of it from my presentation although some slides don’t quite tell the full story. But Adeo asked so I obliged. I don’t know whether they shot video. If they do I’ll post it. See you in the comments section for our debate. VC Funding in a Frothy Market.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 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 tonight at 7pm. You’ll have two minutes to pitch in front of two local judges and then two minutes of questions. Boomtown is at 2060 Broadway B1 in the basement.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 21, 2021

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 of them are angel or VC investors, how many are entrepreneurs, and how many are service providers such as attorneys.

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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.

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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. The worst behaved will literally never be on the slide you’re presenting. In slides, less is almost always more. This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

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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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2019

But in Paris, this cardiologist will be in a conference center, walking an audience through a slide deck packed with Phase 3 data for a new cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran. You might be camping, barbecuing, or sleeping on Monday. It’s Labor Day, after all. Inclisiran’s owner, the Medicines Co.,

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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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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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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2014

GumGum offers up in-image photo advertising technology, which slides in ads in photographs and images. 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. READ MORE>>.

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