I've ranted about bad PowerPoint before. I just came across Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint, sage advice for entrepreneurs pitching their new new thing to VCs. 10 slides max, 20 minutes max, 30-point font minimum. On using too small a font:
The reason people use a small font is twofold: first, that 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, the 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.
Incidentally, the banner to Guy's blog contains this pithy definition:
Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do.
He doesn't mean me, right?
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1. Posted by PK on July 11, 2006 @ 7:40 | Permalink
Actually, I've been with some VCs and entrepreneurs that absolutely won't allow the use of powerpoint. Plain and simple, they don't want to be bothered by what's going on, on the screen. It's a distractor, and a comfortable one, especially if you're not comfortable speaking in front of people.
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