We’ve all sat in one of those endless power point presentations that went on and on and on….

Guy kawasaki back in 2005 talked about trying to remember the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. 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.  This rule is applicable for any presentation when trying to reach agreement for raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc.

Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting and venture capitalists are very normal. (The only difference between you and venture capitalist is that he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.

The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:

1.    Problem
2.    Your solution
3.    Business model
4.    Underlying magic/technology
5.    Marketing and sales
6.    Competition
7.    Team
8.    Projections and milestones
9.    Status and timeline
10.   Summary and call to action

Short video that introduces the concept of Thinkbigbebig Entrepreneurs and why it was started. The video quality is not great however as is mentioned in the video, it’s about getting started and testing your ideas.