The 5 most repeated tips for pitch decks from these 6 top VCs
I thought it’d be interesting to see if some of the top venture capitalists have any widespread agreement on how to pitch them for investments. So I did a short analysis and noticed that the top…
2 Powerful Techniques Reid Hoffman used in LinkedIn’s Pitch Deck
In October of last year Reid Hoffman posted LinkedIn’s Series B pitch deck from 2004. He packed it full of some great lessons, and a bunch of people commented on it and analyzed it. And…
Stop wasting time with PowerPoint and make your presentation more awesome at the same time
One thing about working with startup founders is that they love to talk about how busy they are. Hell, you’re probably reading this right now and thinking “Man I’m so busy.” Yeah, ok. But if…
What are the most common mistakes in startup pitches? (Probably not what you think)
Here’s a post I did on Quora about what the most common mistakes in startup pitches are. Most people focus on things like “Follow Guy Kawasaki’s 10 slide outline” or “Spend x% of the time…
Anyone can make graphs look so much better
Just a quick note to say props to the folks at Dark Horse Analytics, who, in a single gif show how to turn a typical cluttered graph into one that is outstandingly clear… Their article, Data Looks…