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Slides from my guest lecture at the Technion

May 7, 2009 · by Jan Schultink
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Last night, I gave a guest lecture to the Eclub of the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel. We discussed presentation design in general, lessons for entrepreneurs wanting to pitch to venture capitalists for funding, and some PowerPoint makeover tricks.

The slides are a perfect example of visuals that cannot stand on their own (without the presenter being present). Having said that, here they are:

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4 comments

sorsa2009-05-07 11:54:00
Thanks Jan for your great blog its been a great source of inspiration and information for me!

As a feedback on your slideset: there were 89 slides that I liked. The one that you should remove is the one excusing your English. You should not be apologetic about yourself or the presentation, least of all in the beginning of it. The audience expects and wants you to succeed therefore blackballing yourself in the beginning undermines your whole setting for the presentation. Secondly bad English is the most spoken language in the whole world, therefore fluent speakers should be excusing us, the majority (I´m from Finland:)

I am sure that your presentation was a success and this minor detail did not ruin the whole show. However,that one slide was just something that caught my attention and you could reconsider the use of it.

BTW, slide nr. 19, is the background from iStockphoto?
Jan Schultink2009-05-09 09:54:00
Hi Ute-S, it is a fake in the spirit of a lecture for 50 students. I am not planning to write a book anytime soon, but you can check out some of the other books in the "For Dummies" series on presentations and PowerPoint on Amazon. I have not read them myself though.
Ute-S2009-05-09 09:41:00
I like your presentation. One question: Is the "Slide-makeover for Dummies" book title a fake or are you planning to publish this book? (I could not find it on Amazon, but I would buy it if it existed.)
Jan Schultink2009-05-07 12:02:00
Thank you Sorsa for the compliment. Excuse my English actually means "apologies that I am not speaking to you in Hebrew" :-)

The image in slide 19 does come from iStockPhoto.