Testing your slides. I have added a free PowerPoint file to the template store. It contains 2 meeting room background to test how your slides will look in a real presentation setting. Time to fix those small fonts and graphics before you are up there tomorrow.

Generic disruptive startup pitch. Here is a very common flow that keeps on coming back in many situations

But what does your app do? You have been thinking about your app for 2 years, before this moment when you are ready to talk to investors. You have grand visions of the bigger picture, and how your app could become a major platform in your industry. Investors have not gone through this process, and see many pitches that claim to be a platform in your industry.

Investor pitch in VR. It was bound to happen soon, a startup active in the field of virtual reality made an investor in pitch in well, virtual reality.

Referral fees. People in the HR business complain about this: a headhunter makes a connection between a candidate and a recruiting officer without asking them both first, and, when the introduction ends up in a match, sends an invoice for a referral fee. The same starts happening to me for custom design projects: an introduction, an anticipating client, and the request by the introducer to get paid in a separate email.