The best advice is to prepare for any situation that might go wrong. Always have at least one backup of your presentation; email your talk to the organisers in advance; do a practice run to test for ...

We are a team of writers, experimenters and researchers providing you with the best advice with zero bias or partiality. When trying to raise funding, first impressions matter, and that’s where a ...

When tendering to award high value contracts, business and government entities often include a presentation in the procurement process. Presentations provide an evaluation committee with a chance to ...

Contrary to popular belief, a pitch is not a presentation. A presentation is a clearly defined event allotted a fixed amount of time. The audience sits back, expecting the presentation to start at a ...

Learning to pitch ideas persuasively is a foundational skill for today’s founders. But effective persuasion is hard, so I like to look for simple, time-tested tactics that successful communicators use ...

Today I’m at Plug and Play, one of the world’s largest venture capital investment firms and start-up accelerators. I’m with a client from a Fortune 1000 consumer products company to hear 25 startups ...

Ciocca Center's Business Pitch Competition takes place each spring. We use a virtual portal called Pitchtape, an asynchronous online platform where companies can record their pitches. Teams must ...

The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact has now brought us to an interesting moment in technology. Some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be — are getting revisited ...