Preface
What Is the PowerPoint Predicament?
Several years ago, I attended a networking breakfast where several entrepreneurs were pitching their start-up companies to a panel of venture capitalists. It was set up as a competition, and one of the entrants didn’t show up, so the moderator asked if anyone in the audience had a concept they wanted to present.
At the time I was on the “board” of an Internet start-up (like everyone else I knew in the technology arena) hoping to get funded. I volunteered, and without any notes or preparation, I spoke for five minutes and ended up winning the competition.
Afterward, several colleagues congratulated me (I won a T-shirt—no funding), and several said, more or less, you were great, but imagine if you’d been ...
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