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Year-End Achievements Presentation preview

Year-End Achievements

Need a way to encourage your teams for another year of positive performance? A Year-End Achievements presentation encapsulates a year’s worth of growth, challenges, and successes into a cohesive narrative that inspires employees and stakeholders.

Minimum Viable Product (Part 2) Presentation preview

Minimum Viable Product (Part 2)

How can you tell if a product idea will work out? This Minimum Viable Product presentation guides the initial triage of tasks to the development and execution of the MVP. More importantly, it includes North Star metrics that would ultimately determine if the MVP is successful. Use these slides to align stakeholders and communicate product vision.

Idea Testing Presentation preview

Idea Testing

How to know if an idea is worth pursuing? Companies need tried-and-true ways to discover the next big idea that will disrupt their industry. This Idea Testing presentation template includes tools that can be customized to different business scenarios and provide a framework for brainstorming and testing new ideas.

Corporate Brand ("Clarity") Presentation preview

Corporate Brand ("Clarity")

Whether for a presentation to stakeholders or a pitch to a new investor, slides with consistent design and concise information are important to grab and keep your audience’s interest. In order to tell the best story, it needs to be direct, to-the-point, and most of all: unique and true to your vision. Our Corporate Resources collection provides customizable resource slides which you can download and customize for any business need.

Consulting Frameworks for Innovation Presentation preview

Consulting Frameworks for Innovation

How do you unparse complex problems with a clear and logical mind? With the right frameworks and mental models, you can confidently guide any organization or client through periods of change. Our Consulting Frameworks for Innovation deck reviews problem-solving models that foster not only creative ideas but also structured thinking. From Minto’s Pyramid Principle, to Blue Ocean Strategy, Accelerating Diffusion of Innovation, McKinsey’s Three Horizons, SIPOC New Product Introduction Process, and more, these battle-tested tools have been used to solve some of the complicated issues in the business world.

Product Roadmap Presentation preview

Product Roadmap

Need to manage and share the development of a product? Product roadmaps work as a source of truth document to outline the direction, priorities, progress and vision of a product over time. This Product Roadmap collection provides customizable resource slides for product evolution roadmaps, now-next-later roadmaps, agile roadmaps, release roadmaps, product metrics, plus many more.

Ultimate Pitch Deck (Part 4) Presentation preview

Ultimate Pitch Deck (Part 4)

Need a pitch deck template to impress investors or potential partners? And why is it that the top-funded pitch decks all seem to follow the same format? Our customizable Ultimate Pitch Deck template includes all of the top slides you need to pitch your idea, from the problem and solution slides, the team, and company overview slides, as well as slides to showcase your business model, demo your product, or highlight how you create value to customers. We’ll also cover slides on market size, market validation, demographics, and financial projections.  

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Presentation preview

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

How can you create the best product with the least cost of failure? Use our Minimum Viable Product presentation to dedicate the right resources and develop the most important features that users actually want, gather usability feedback, and continuously reiterate until your product is widely adopted and loved.

Business books

The Cold Start Problem Book Summary preview

The Cold Start Problem

When a networked product launches, it faces a chicken-and-egg problem: people need to use it for it to be worth anything. So how do you start the very first network without a basis to work from? Andrew Chen, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, calls this the Cold Start Problem. The Cold Start Problem is Chen’s attempt to help us better understand network effects: how to solve the Cold Start Problem, how to scale network effects, how to manage growth plateaus, and so on. Chen’s Cold Start Theory is broken down into 5 stages: 1. the cold start problem; 2. the tipping point; 3. escape velocity; 4. hitting the ceiling; 5. the moat.

The Psychology of Money Book Summary preview

The Psychology of Money

How should investors manage the inevitabilities of risk? What are the most powerful wealth-building tools that require little technical skill? How do our brains hold us back from a more prosperous future? Morgan Housel answers these questions and shares how human thought, habits, and emotions are intertwined with investment. He shares insights and strategies for how investors can leverage these connections for personal gain — not only financial but personal and emotional as well.

High Growth Handbook Book Summary preview

High Growth Handbook

You’ve found a good product with strong market fit, so how do you scale from an early stage startup to list on the S&P? Elad Gil, co-founder of Color Genomics and VP at Twitter, lays out the key frameworks that CEOs of high-growth companies need to understand in this High Growth Handbook. Learn about best hiring practices, CEO change management, roadmap for M&A success, and how to evaluate the pros and cons of IPOs. With specific and actionable advice for every stage of the hyper-growth, this guide is meant to launch founders and their companies to the moon.

Better, Simpler Strategy Book Summary preview

Better, Simpler Strategy

Ever wondered what strategies make Apple, Amazon, and other juggernauts so successful? Better, Simpler Strategy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee shares top insights on how those companies succeed. Learn about the value stick framework to raise a customer's willingness to pay and lower an employee's willingness to sell, how these players contribute to value incentives, how to build value maps against competitors, and how to prioritize the right value drivers to grow your business. 

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber Book Summary preview

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Learn how Uber's growth was fuelled by obsessive product focus, broken rules, growth at all costs and minimal bureaucracy from the book that inspired the hit Showtime TV series. The same traits eventually proved to be bottlenecks in Uber's transition from a scrappy startup into one of the world's largest and most influential companies. Within a year, Uber lost nearly 20 billion dollars in valuation and faced half a dozen federal investigations. Throughout it all, Uber broke the law, developed a product that has not been banned and dominated the transportation industry.

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Book Summary preview

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Elon Musk's ascension has been described by experts as the fastest bout of wealth creation in history. So how did he do it? In this book, the inventor and entrepreneur opens up about the rocky road he traveled and the inner chamber of his life and work. Plus, hear from firsthand experiences of those who came to love Musk – or hate him – during the two decades he created companies.

Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Book Summary preview

Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Laszlo Bock, Google’s innovative Senior Vice President of People Operations, offers his best answers to these puzzling questions in his book Work Rules! Bock shares valuable insights and experiences from 15 years as a leader of Google’s strategy to attract, develop and retain the world’s top talent.

The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon Book Summary preview

The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon

Have you ever wondered how Amazon managed to grow from the first online bookstore to a global technology leader in just 20 years? Jeff Bezos' humble internet startup has become a well-known case study as a company that built an agile, efficient and productive business. In this book, risk and growth expert, Steve Anderson, identifies specific Cycles of Growth and 14 “Growth Principles” based on patterns he observed within shareholder letters written by Jeff Bezos between 1997 and 2018.

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