Jeff “the Blog” Bonforte

Hello Entrepreneurs:

I am going to do a free slide make-over for 2-3 startups. Here is how it works. Just send me an email with 1-2 slides from your pitch. They should be the important slides…slides that will act as either the foundation for the rest of the presentation. I am not talking about making you a template, I will remake the actual slides that could transform your pitch. Here are some examples: (a) your product roadmap slide, (b) you “strategy” slide or your (c) your business model slide.

Here are the things you must consider before sending me anything:

1. I am going to blog the make-over (I will scrub/anonymize before doing so), but you have to be ready to let me show what I did on the blog to improve your slides.
2. I am going to use Keynote 09 on a Mac. PPT is just too time consuming.
3. No promises if I will pick yours, or how long it will take me, though I will notify you within a few days if you have been selected and give you a guesstimate when I will work on it.
4. I will not sign an NDA…I don’t want crazy confidential info…I’m blogging it after all.

How I will make my decision on who to help:

• Inspiration: I like your startup, idea or product (I am a product guy, after all…I need a muse). I don’t care what phase of the company or industry you are in.
• Need: You need the help (you suck at slides but otherwise are a very talented team)
• Potential: You have a bit of traction (product). Things are tough…I am looking for teams that just need that little extra help in telling their story. If you haven’t done anything yet to build your product or service, you need help there before your pitch gets a make-over

Here is what you should send:

• A few pages of your preso. Feel free to clean out some of the info, but I need to know enough to help you out, obviously. I am going to only pick 1-2 slides to make over.
• A description of your product, company, and its stage (team), etc
• Some basic info on the audience of the preso (and your product, actually)

As a bonus, here is what I will do for the startups I select:

• VCs: I will make a few, targeted introductions to a few appropriate top tier VCs in bay area and/or back East
• Advisers: I will make an introduction or two to people in my network that might be able to help you (advisors or key team members)
• PR: Perhaps I can help you get a “hit” with a significant blog/blogger or news outlet, assuming you have an interesting story.

If you are interested. You can send me your pitch to jeff at bonforte dot com. If you are reading this after Feb 2009, you can assume I am done with this offer.