While this talk by David Rose is about pitching to Venture Capitalists, he also gives some great PowerPoint tips. I was very pleased to see that he agrees with many of my thoughts on PowerPoint. In particular, David presents his top five presentation tips:

1. Always use Presenter Mode
2. Always use a remote control
3. Handout are NOT your presentation
4. Don’t read your speech
5. Never, ever look at the screen

All of these tips are in my free e-book. The presentation is only about 15 minutes long, but well worth watching. I was a little bemused to see that he even uses one of same slides that I use – the one of Bill Gates presenting Windows Live in 2005. David does speak at about a million words per second, so you do need to listen carefully!

If you are going to pitch your idea to anybody, he provides a great speech outline. Here is a summarized outline, but watch the presentation for his insights.

• Company Logo / title
• Business Overview
• Management team
• Market
• Product
• Business Model
• Strategic Relationships
• Competition
• Barrier to Entry
• Financial Overview
• Use of Proceeds
• Capital and Valuation

You can watch other great speeches at www.ted.com

Enjoy, and keep talking!

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