Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz: An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck

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Two books to help you craft your story, design better visualizations, impress your audience, and turn your idea into reality.

• Provides the new "how to write a business case" for the start-up generation.
• Great visual examples of pitch decks.
• Detailed walkthroughs on how to create your own pitch decks.
• Sharp, motivating assessment of the dataviz-for-business context.
• Framework for "thinking visually."
• Step-by-step guide for getting from data to sketch to final product.

Audience: Any manager, entrepreneur, or employee in any kind of enterprise who needs to understand dataviz/graphics better and to use it in making their case and advancing their career.

Author Bio

Scott Berinato is a self-described dataviz geek and a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review. He has written and edited many articles for HBR and other top business and tech-related print and web publications. Evan Baehr is cofounder of Able, a venture-backed financial services company helping fund the Fortune 5 Million--the millions of small businesses across the United States. Previously he was cofounder of Outbox, a venture-backed start-up aiming to disrupt the US Postal Service. He's run or supported capital campaigns raising hundreds of millions of dollars, including the second largest raise in angel-investor history, and worked for legendary investor Peter Thiel. Evan is also a Venture Partner with StartupRunner Capital. Evan Loomis cofounded and launched TreeHouse, the Whole Foods version of Home Depot, a home-improvement store in Austin, Texas. He started his career on Wall Street as an investment banker and then as the COO of an angel investment group called Wedgwood Circle, a national angel investment group that seeks to inject goodness, truth, and beauty into the art and entertainment industries. Through these he raised millions of dollars from over thirty angel investors and venture capital firms. His newest venture is StartupRunner Capital, a venture that funds and builds early-stage companies with scalable, repeatable business models.

Author social media/website info:
Berinato: linkedin.com/in/scott-berinato-6330ba54, twitter.com/scottberinatolang=en
Baehr: evanbaehr.com/, linkedin.com/in/evanbaehr, twitter.com/evanbaehrlang=en
Loomis: linkedin.com/in/evanloomis, twitter.com/evanloomislang=en