9. Guy Kawasaki 10-20-30 Presentation Rule Video Lecture | How to pitch your Startup? - Entrepreneurship

so before there's an epidemic of
Meniere's disease in the venture capital
industry i came up with the 10-20-30
rule this is the 10-20-30 rule you
should have 10 slides in your PowerPoint
pitch 10 not 50 I don't care if you have
curve jumping paradigm-shifting p2p
Google AdWords social network optimized
sequel based way to sell dog food online
10 slides that's all we can handle those
10 slides you should be able to give in
20 minutes you may have a one-hour
meeting but you're using a Windows
laptop it's going to take you 40 minutes
to make it work with the projector
alright 20 minutes and the smallest font
you should use is 30 points you see 20
14 and 12 you should use 30 points for
two reasons first the kind of people
you're pitching to looks like that
the second reason is by having a 30
point font you can put a lot less text
this forces you to actually know your
presentation and just put the core of
the text on your slide if you need to
put eight points or ten points fonts up
there it's because you don't know your
material if you start reading your
material because you don't know your
material the audience is very quickly
going to figure out that you are a bozo
they're going to say to themselves this
bozo is reading his slides I can read
faster than this bozo can speak I will
just read ahead if you don't buy that 30
points is the right font size I will
give you an algorithm give you an
algorithm find out who the oldest person
is in the audience divide his or her age
by - that's your optimal font size okay
unless you're pitching to 16 year olds
don't use the 8 point font