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Company Preso Template: (8 minute preso + 2 min Q&A)

 Pick a company to report. It can be ANY company. But have a REASON for your choice – and share it!  VERY, VERY STRONG Preference: Use Powerpoint or Slides to create the slides, but save your presentation as a PDF, so we can use PDF reader to display your company preso.  REQUIRED: As noted in the syllabus: Bring your company preso on a memory stick; do not go over the network to retrieve it while standing in front of the class; do not plan on using your computer for the preso; Bring your company preso on a memory stick. I will lend you one.  Formatting RULE – KEEP the slides simple; Keep the slides visually accessible; too many words make it impossible for the audience to follow, to absorb.

• Rule of 3: 3 bullets on a slide; this is a VERY important rule
• Each bullet is a sentence fragment; NO FULL SENTENCES!!!
• exceptions are allowed… but sparingly!
• Rule of 3: 3 bullets on a slide; this is a VERY important rule
• Each bullet is a sentence fragment; NO FULL SENTENCES!!!
• exceptions are allowed… but sparingly!
• Rule of 3: 3 bullets on a slide; this is a VERY important rule
• Each bullet is a sentence fragment; NO FULL SENTENCES!!!
• exceptions are allowed… but sparingly!

 Your company preso is a seriously timed presentation: you WILL be stopped at 8 minutes; and then you WILL entertain questions for 2 minutes. NO exceptions; no extensions! Why is time important? Respect for your colleagues. If you go over your time, you will short-change your colleague’s presentation time. Not a good thing – Remember the Golden Rule…

 If you only use 6-7 minutes that is BAD BAD BAD. Significantly under-utilizing your allotted time means you haven’t done a good job preparing – you haven’t dug deep into the company. You will be docked points if you use less than 7.5 minutes!

 You will be assigned a date for your presentation; you must give your presentation on that date.  Grading:

• All company reports will be peer-reviewed.
• If you don’t like your grade, then take a DO OVER… give another company report!
• Company reports must be uploaded to the wiki within 24 hours of the presentation.

 Good examples of a company reports – all of these earned a 10 from me – your peers have seldom awarded a 10. https://www.slideshare.net/JonathanBrelje/snapchat-company-presentation-69376925/1 https://www.slideshare.net/AshwinFujii/afujii-draft-kings-69380438 https://www.slideshare.net/AyushMehra3/instagram-81154209 https://www.slideshare.net/LiangLiu31/ofo-liuliang/1 https://www.slideshare.net/ChienMinSoh/wayfair-company-presentation/1 https://www.slideshare.net/ShahidAhmad43/company-preso-apple https://www.slideshare.net/secret/GQNihoJqd0rRQ0 Why are these “good” –  They DOVE into the company; they told the story BEHIND the story; they asked WHY (see below)  AND – they are visually interesting.  Note: the format for a company preso has changed over time; but viewing last semester’s presentations will give you a sense of what goes into a company preso.

Page 2 of 3 Required Company Preso Template (slide order is not hard-and-fast – but pretty hard-and-fast) (<slide number> <slide content>)  1 Title (company, your name, logo) – why did you chose this company???  2 Problem, Product, Persona (slide 2 can be 2 slides in actuality – remember: do not crowd too much info on one slide!)

• 2a what problem does the company solve? One liner format/elevator pitch format
• 2b what products solve that problem/those problems? (give concrete examples)
• 2c what persona does the company see as having the problem and needing their products?

 3 Financial Info: Answer this question: Is the company profitable? (Yahoo Financials for public companies; privately held takes some Googling)

• Include a graph of the GROWTH in sales, the GROWTH in customers; describe how the

company has changed in terms of customers, revenue, profit, etc. REMEMBER: do NOT put too much information on one slide, e.g., two graphs on one slide may even be too much info!  4 Business model of the company – how does the company make money?

• Again, a graph that shows the changes over time might be useful.

 5 SHORT History of company – the KEY here is to include KEY events in the history of the company – don’t just list events – list the KEY events that help you tell YOUR story!!!

• Be sure to include a slide on the leadership of the company, e.g., if the company is a start-up,

who started it up? And why? If it is an established company, who is the CEO and who are the key people in the “C-Suite”?  6 What's HOT at the company or what’s the company’s Secret Sauce (what makes the company or its products special?): identify A/THE HOT product that exemplifies the company’s secret sauce, e.g., Apple’s secret sauce is design and its watch is HOT;  7 Competition:

• Put your company into a context: What INDUSTRY is the company in? What is the ROLE of the

company in that industry (e.g., mover/shaker? Just milking? Or? E.g., Tesla is a mover/shaker, GM is just milking)

• Use a chart to compare/contrast major features of your company’s product with the product
• f other companies

 8 YOUR prediction: will the company succeed or fail -- and WHY  9 References – list the URLs or whatever you read – VERY IMPORTANT! Comments – how to make your company preso better: Ask – And Answer – WHY!  for EVERY statement you make in your company presentation, ask yourself the following question:  “self, WHY am I saying this? HOW does it bolster my overarching argument?” Examples:  "Netflix has taken on X millions in debt"  WHY is that important to say? HOW does it further my argument that Netflix gets a thumbs up? What is "debt" and how does it impact a company?  "in 2017, Uber brought on a new CEO"  WHY is that important? What did the old CEO do to get fired? What does the new CEO bring to the table? Have you seen benefits from the new CEO already?  "Epic does not want to go public"  WHY is it relevant to tell us that Epic doesn't want to do an IPO... what is an IPO?

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Company Report Presentation Tips: What goes into a GOOD Company Preso?

Answer the question – WHY, Why, why, WHY, Why, why…. Analyze – don’t just report!!!

Why did you chose the company? Even if the reason is lame – I worked there as an intern. But tell us how you arrived at the decision. Why did the company change CEOs? Why did the revenue take a dip? Why was a product delayed? USE the full 8 minutes; USE the full 8 minutes; USE the full 8 minutes; USE the full 8 minutes You will lose points if you leave more than 30 seconds unused!!! Secret sauce is typically ONE thing… yes, there could be two things… but not three things that make up the secret sauce. Some secret sauces are just good business practices – or market opportunities. But the secret sauce… it’s the ingredient that makes a difference! WHY is that one thing the secret sauce? Why is that one thing the secret sauce? If your company is a startup, talk about people who started it. A start up is ALL ABOUT the team – what is the team!! If company is established, talk about the CEO and her/his supporters in the C-Suite.

MAKE THE TYPING BIG; USE A BIG FONT.

 Do NOT put too much information on one slide  Do NOT put too much information on one slide.  Do NOT crowd a GRAPH by adding a bunch of bullets… unless the bullets help explain the graph.  Do NOT put TOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUUUUUCH information on ONE Slide.  Use LOGIC to lay out a slide – put a picture next to a word; don’t just string pictures then string words. Think about what your audience will hear when you deliver your presentation. The expression is: “WALK IN YOUR AUDIECE’S SHOES.”  For example: just because YOU understand what a company does, because you were an intern there, doesn’t mean that your peers in the audience will understand what a company does.  Do NOT assume that your audience knows about your company.

In the competition chart, make the MAIN DIFFERENCES STAND OUT… make the value-added of your company visually obvious; don’t make ALL the squares the

• same. Make the KEY differentiator JUMP OUT.