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Powerpoint alternatives for investor presentations

Tired of PowerPoint? Here are the best alternatives

by David Cannon on May 2, 2013

Roughly 95 percent of slideshow presentations are still given in PowerPoint, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t evaluate other tools. We’ll run through the top alternatives and weigh the pros and cons. Google Docs Presentations A free feature in Google Docs (Trust us, it’s there; you just never use it.) If you consider yourself a [...]

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Webinar: How to Write a Winning business Plan

by Bailey Koharchick on January 24, 2013

If you missed the webinar on “How to Write a Winning Business Plan,” you can still watch it below. You get to see how quick and easy it is to create both a dynamic business pitch and a business plan that supports your brilliant business idea. We’ve also included answers to the questions we were not able [...]

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How to pitch to investors in 10 minutes and get funded

by Caroline Cummings on January 2, 2013

I know what it’s like to pitch to investors – both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology start-ups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Below is a format I’ve successfully used, [...]

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Shark Tank – Perfect your pitch

by Chelle Parmele on August 12, 2009

A new television show debuted this past weekend, a show based on a popular UK show, Dragons’ Den. The US show is called “Shark Tank“.  The “tank” is a panel of highly successful business people with investment money to spend. Each week 4 to 5 entrepreneurs pitch their idea to the panel. There is a [...]

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Business Planning workshops scheduled for London

by Alan Gleeson on January 7, 2009

Palo Alto Software Ltd is delighted to announce that we will be running a number of business planning workshops in London, U.K., commencing on 27 January 2009. These business planning workshops will be run in conjunction with Company Partners, a Wokingham-England based business matching service, and will be held at the British Library in Central [...]

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The Business Pitch

by Alan Gleeson on December 10, 2008

Business pitches are growing in popularity here in the UK as well as in the US. However, as this article, The Business Pitch by Alan Gleeson illustrates, business pitches are no substitute for the real thing – a thorough business plan! This short article describes the concept of pitching in detail, and argues why pitches [...]

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