Here’s what to expect on stage — and how to make every minute count.
You will have a chance to present your Global Pitch at the Filipina Summit:
1. You have 10 minutes; 8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes for set-up and support feedback. Please rehearse your presentation to complete on time.
2. Use format presentation according to Guy Kawasaki’s modified 10/10/30 Rule.
Guy Kawasaki
The 10/10/30 Rule of PowerPoint
From Guy Kawasaki:
As a venture capitalist, I listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” and “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing; there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and the world starts spinning.
I am evangelizing the 10/10/30 Rule of PowerPoint, Canva, or Google Slides. It’s pretty simple:
• Your presentation should have ten slides,
• Last no more than ten minutes,
• No font smaller than thirty points. While in the venture capital business, this rule applies to any presentation to reach an agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc.
I. Ten slides. Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint, Canva, or Google Slides presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting, and venture capitalists are very typical. (The only difference between you and a venture capitalist is that s/he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.
The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:
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 timeline
10. Summary and call to action
II. Ten minutes. You should give your ten slides in ten minutes.
III. 30-point font. Most of the presentations have text in a ten-point font. As much text as possible is jammed into the slide, and the presenter reads it. However, as soon as the audience figures out that you’re reading the text, it reads ahead of you because it can read faster than you can speak. The result is that you and the audience are out of synch.
The reason people use a small font is twofold: first, they don’t know their material well enough; second, they think that more text is more convincing. Total bozosity. Force yourself to use no font smaller than thirty points. I guarantee it will make your presentations better because it requires you to find the most salient points and to know how to explain them well. If “thirty points” is too dogmatic, I offer you an algorithm: find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That’s your optimal font size.
Please observe the 10/10/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
IV. Highlight how your project benefits the Filipina women and girls where you live (in your geographic location)
V. End with a specific “ASK” for support - donations, investments, or resources you need.
*** FWN will flash on the screen the QR code for the audience to scan and link to the short form to indicate their support. We will also have printed QR codes available. FWN will send you the support forms collected so you can follow up with your supporters. ***