The White Rabbit

Alper goes further into must-have principle #3 of the entrepreneurial pitch deck: Timing, and suggests some more imaginative ways to represent that element on a slide.

A shout-out goes to Mathieu Carenzo, Alper's mentor in Barcelona. Mathieu is not a slide designer, but rather a business school professor, a seasoned entrepreneur and a dynamic business angel with current investments in scale-ups. This episode is about how to represent his ideas in a slide deck, and therefore his ideas are key to the construction of this episode. The original conversation about this criterion is at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yupl8vA693w

Follow Mathieu Carenzo on his website 

https://www.mathieucarenzo.com 

and subscribe to his YouTube channel for more videos at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4fbJOa_mNe3Z8ldMl6XJA

Alper goes into the first two of six must-have elements in an entrepreneur pitch deck: Market, and Value Proposition, and how to represent those in a slide deck.

A shout-out goes to Mathieu Carenzo, Alper's mentor in Barcelona. Mathieu is not a slide designer, but rather a business school professor, a seasoned entrepreneur and a dynamic business angel with current investments in scale-ups. This episode is about how to represent his ideas in a slide deck, and therefore his ideas are key to the construction of this episode. The original conversation about this criterion is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OsnztwVZVw 

Follow Mathieu Carenzo on his website https://www.mathieucarenzo.com and subscribe to his YouTube channel for more videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4fbJOa_mNe3Z8ldMl6XJA

Matt and Alper cover 6 of their presentation pet peeves, and try to do so quickly without droning on and on for 6 hours. Avoid these common mistakes and your audiences will appreciate it!

Alper asks Matt what he means by the phrase "vocabulary is a zip file," a phrase Matt uses a lot but that probably warrants some explanation, and Matt demonstrates how you can use vivid words in your presentations, even when you are speaking to an audience that might not know your fancy native-speaker terms.

Alper witnessed a presentation this week where the speaker missed out on using three particular tools he probably should have taken advantage of. They are very common, but even so, all too many presenters overlook them. Don't overlook these three tools, and your presentations are almost guaranteed to be better.

Matt uses this phrase all the time: "Talk to the dog." What does that even mean? Finally, an answer to the question.

Warning: They are taking somebody else's one thing, and seeing if it can be repurposed for a different thing. Your results may vary.

Show notes:

Blair Enns' website:

http://www.winwithoutpitching.com/

Alper tells us about 3 favorite apps useful for presenters.

The apps:

Camo Studio: https://reincubate.com/camo/
Duet Display: https://www.duetdisplay.com
PromptSmart: https://promptsmart.com

Matt makes an observation about how PowerPoint training and presentation training are often conflated, and offers a theory as to why.

Alper and Matt go deeper on the issue of audience resistance, and the unfortunate tendency of presentation training to try to overcome it, instead of elicit it and then leverage it. This was not an intended episode, but last week's discussion of resistance triggered it.