Top stories published by SlideMagic in January of 2014

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Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 6, 2014

The investment banker

Investment bankers use presentations that are documents for reading, they are even denser than the slides a management consultant typically produces. And whereas a management consultant usually can be convinced easily to change a presentation approach, investment bankers stick to their…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 29, 2014

Document standards

Here is an article from the Guardian, discussing how the UK government is thinking of getting rid of Microsoft Office in favour of open source software. The arguments 1) cost saving, 2) making it easier to share documents.

The article highlights an inevitable trend: the reduced importance of…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 22, 2014

PPT 2011 for Mac color bug

Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac has an annoying bug: when you apply a colour to a font, it comes out slightly differently than when you apply the exact same colour to a shape. One: it looks bad on slides, two: it gives surprises when you open a PowerPoint file created on a Mac on…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 23, 2014

Usage rights in Google images

In the search tools in Google Image Search is now an option to filter out images with a Creative Commons, or other usage rights. The details on the GOS blog. Very useful, but still: double check the image rights at the source and do not rely on Google solely. Via Gavin McMahon.

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 28, 2014

Forced analogies

Many hightech investor pitches contain parallels to big success stories (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.). Many of these analogies are forced. They do not make the right comparison, and worse, might actually confuse the audience.

There are two ways to use an analogy correctly:

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 16, 2014

Big architecture slides

Almost every presentation by a tech company has a big architecture slide in it, lots of boxes that are connected to the cloud. This slide does not explain what your products are, let alone how these products help solve your customer’s problems. It does show that though that your product…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 2, 2014

The joy of tables

Tables in PowerPoint are a great basis to set up a slide in PowerPoint. Everything is instantly lined up in a grid, it is easy to add and remove boxes (lines). I often use tables with a very light grey fill and fat white lines.

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 30, 2014

You vs the competition

In a startup pitch try not to define yourself early on through an explicit competitive positioning. Early in the presentation, you can mention how current solutions fall short, and you do something clever to fix that. But only later should you introduce the actual names of the competitors.

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 1, 2014

OS X — Windows compatibility

Now that the installed base of Macs is growing, especially outside the large enterprises, you need to take into account that your PowerPoint presentation is likely to be opened on both machines.

There are obvious differences to be aware of. The key one is fonts: there is a…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 23, 2014

Nitty gritty

One of my clients has a technology that can save cost for a retail business. They did a pilot implementation at one retailer and have a lot of cost saving data as a result.

You can present this data to other potential clients (sanitised of course) in 2 ways. Approach one is the absolute number: we…

February 2014

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