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I sat in on another pitch the other day – staring at a PowerPoint…

I think you might guess where this is going.  Why is every pitch a boring PowerPoint?  Show your product if you can.  Do something different – it is similar to American Idol – where Simon states how disappointed he is as he was hoping the contestant would be memorable but isn’t – do something memorable. Please! 

If you are like everyone else and your company is like every other company – why do I want to invest?  Here is some advise:

1. Don’t have a presentation – give a speech – tell a story
2. Show your product – even a mock up is better than nothing – wire frames of a website are ok.
3. Answer the key questions (http://hueyequity.com/blogg/2008/05/19/the-1-thing-a-web-company-should-provide-to-potential-investors/)
4. If you need to show a slide show it while you are talking about it and then advance to a blank screen as you stop discussing that one point.  By doing this you keep the attention on you as a speaker and not the slide.
5. Hand out the slides or have a leave behind that you distribute after your talk.

Don’t use PowerPoint as a crutch.  Focus the attention on you and your business.

Tags: investor pitch

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