Essentials of Business Communication 10th Edition by Dana Loewy,Mary Ellen Guffey

Exercise 36

Venture capitalist and angel investor Guy Kawasaki believes that persuasive PowerPoint presentations should be no more than 10 slides long, last 20 minutes at most, and contain 30-point fonts or bigger (the 10/20/30 rule). Kawasaki is convinced that presentations deviating from this rule will fall short of their purpose, which is typically to reach some type of agreement.
Could you interest an investor such as Guy Kawasaki in your business idea? The venture capitalist believes that if you must use more than 10 slides to explain your business, you probably don't have one. Furthermore, Kawasaki claims that the 10 topics a venture capitalist cares about are the following:
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 time line
10. Summary and call to action
Your Task. Dust off that start-up fantasy you may have, and get to work. Prepare a slideshow that would satisfy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule: In 10 slides and a presentation of no more than 20 minutes, address the 10 topics that venture capitalists care about. Make sure that the fonts on your slides are at least 30 points in size.