Haiku Deck

You might think our background is in presentation design, but that’s not quite how things unfolded. We started out at Startup Weekend and Techstars, wishing we could easily create the kinds of killer pitch decks that grab attention and rally support around a great idea. Although the businesses we’ve pitched and launched over the years didn’t always work out the way we hoped, we kept coming back to the slides. Why is it so difficult to create an awesome presentation?

Deep down, we believe that presenting your company, or your story, or your idea should be a fun, creative experience, but for nearly everybody we talked to, it was the opposite. We’ve all been using pretty much the same tools, in the same way, for years--using lame templates, fiddling with the space between our bullets, and wrestling with bulky file attachments--despite the fact that we hate doing those things and we’re spending an increasing amount of time on connected, mobile devices.

We decided it was high time to reinvent presentations for how we work, communicate, and create now. With Haiku Deck, anyone can easily create a flawless presentation that can be easily projected, shared, posted, embedded on a website or blog, or viewed on any web-enabled device.

We’ve built Haiku Deck around presentation tips recommended by experts and designers. Keep it simple by limiting your text and focusing each slide on a single idea. Make it beautiful by building your story around high-impact images and keeping your formatting consistent. And, most of all, have fun. Fun is not a word most people associate with presentations, but we feel they should be fun to make and fun to listen to.