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In a perfect world, you give your pitch in twenty minutes, and you have forty minutes left for discussion. Even if setup goes perfectly, people will arrive late and have to leave early.
THE NIGHT THE GHOST GOT IN POWERPOINT WINDOWS
Sure, you have an hour time slot, but you’re using a Windows laptop, so it will take forty minutes to make it work with the projector. You should give your ten slides in twenty minutes. The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are: If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.
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(The only difference between you and venture capitalist is that he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). 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. While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc. 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. To prevent an epidemic of Ménière’s in the venture capital community, I am evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup.
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As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Thus, I’ve worked to limit control all these factors. There are many medical theories about its cause: too much salt, caffeine, or alcohol in one’s diet, too much stress, and allergies. The symptoms of Ménière’s include hearing loss, tinnitus (a constant ringing sound), and vertigo. I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease-don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog.
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