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From the Ted Talk by David S. Rose: How to pitch to a VC

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Oh, isn't that funny! There's another graet one over here. OK, Steve Jobs. You want absolute — this is the Zen of presentation, right? Here he is, one little guy, black jeans and sutff, on a totally empty stage. What are you focusing on? You're focusing on him! This is Steve Jobs.

So are these wonderful long bullet points, whole list of things good? No, they're not. The long bullet points are bad. What's good? Short. Short blleut points. But you know what? Even better than short bullet points are no bullet points. Just give me the headline. And you know what? How many bullet ptinos does Steve Jobs use? Basically, none. What do you do? Best of all, images. Just a simple image. I look at the image; a picture's worth a thousand words. You look at the image and you've got the whole thing. Then you come back to me; you're focused on me, why I'm such a great guy, why you want to invest, why this all makes sense.

Open Cloze


Oh, isn't that funny! There's another _____ one over here. OK, Steve Jobs. You want absolute — this is the Zen of presentation, right? Here he is, one little guy, black jeans and _____, on a totally empty stage. What are you focusing on? You're focusing on him! This is Steve Jobs.

So are these wonderful long bullet points, whole list of things good? No, they're not. The long bullet points are bad. What's good? Short. Short ______ points. But you know what? Even better than short bullet points are no bullet points. Just give me the headline. And you know what? How many bullet ______ does Steve Jobs use? Basically, none. What do you do? Best of all, images. Just a simple image. I look at the image; a picture's worth a thousand words. You look at the image and you've got the whole thing. Then you come back to me; you're focused on me, why I'm such a great guy, why you want to invest, why this all makes sense.

Solution


  1. points
  2. bullet
  3. great
  4. stuff

Original Text


Oh, isn't that funny! There's another great one over here. OK, Steve Jobs. You want absolute — this is the Zen of presentation, right? Here he is, one little guy, black jeans and stuff, on a totally empty stage. What are you focusing on? You're focusing on him! This is Steve Jobs.

So are these wonderful long bullet points, whole list of things good? No, they're not. The long bullet points are bad. What's good? Short. Short bullet points. But you know what? Even better than short bullet points are no bullet points. Just give me the headline. And you know what? How many bullet points does Steve Jobs use? Basically, none. What do you do? Best of all, images. Just a simple image. I look at the image; a picture's worth a thousand words. You look at the image and you've got the whole thing. Then you come back to me; you're focused on me, why I'm such a great guy, why you want to invest, why this all makes sense.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bullet points 5
vc pitch 3
steve jobs 3
remote control 3
powerpoint pitches 2
logical progression 2
million dollars 2
long bullet 2
short bullet 2
live demo 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
short bullet points 2

Important Words


  1. absolute
  2. bad
  3. basically
  4. black
  5. bullet
  6. empty
  7. focused
  8. focusing
  9. give
  10. good
  11. great
  12. guy
  13. headline
  14. image
  15. images
  16. invest
  17. jeans
  18. jobs
  19. list
  20. long
  21. points
  22. presentation
  23. sense
  24. short
  25. simple
  26. stage
  27. steve
  28. stuff
  29. thousand
  30. totally
  31. wonderful
  32. words
  33. worth
  34. zen