![]() While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. ![]() To prevent an epidemic of Ménière’s in the venture capital community, I am evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. ![]() As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Thus, I’ve worked to limit control all these factors. There are many medical theories about its cause: too much salt, caffeine, or alcohol in one’s diet, too much stress, and allergies. The symptoms of Ménière’s include hearing loss, tinnitus (a constant ringing sound), and vertigo. ![]() I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease-don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. ![]()
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