Evans & Evans

Chinese investment in North America is on the rise. Entrepreneurs and CEOs have become aware of this in the past number of years in the residential real estate market for the most part but are starting to see more and more corporate transactions.

Further, while many business managers are familiar with China’s potential as a vast market for goods and services, relatively fewer seem to have caught on to the notion that the Chinese are aggressively looking for investments and acquisitions across virtually all business sectors.

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The successful entrepreneur built his company from the ground up. In many cases, he guided it through stormy economic times and took decisive action when necessary. Thirty years later, his modest lifestyle business has evolved into a multi-million dollar operation with a significant payroll. Now there’s an opportunity for a sale and a profitable exit that will allow him to achieve his personal financial goals – but he’s struggling to let go.

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A professional-looking PowerPoint Presentation is a key document in your financing package. So why do so many companies get the PowerPoint wrong?

Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki memorably provided his own take on sub-standard PowerPoint pitches:

“As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning.”

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