Presentations Made Easy With Slide Tool App Adam Tatt and Kevin Leneway wanted to put together a slick presentation without a design staff, so they invented an iPad app to do it for them.
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Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway didn't set out to build a productivity app for small businesses. In 2011 the Seattle TechStars alums were busy trying to get their celebrity-driven Facebook game off the ground.
Despite raising $600,000 in seed money, partnering with rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot (yes, he of "Baby Got Back" fame) and nabbing a mention on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Mix-N-Match With Sir Mix-A-Lot flopped. Nobody wanted to play.
After a couple of course corrections fizzled out, Tratt and Leneway knew the jig was up. It was time to tell their investors they'd failed. Like good 'treps, they planned to show up with a slide deck. But without their in-house designer, who had left when Mix-N-Match imploded, creating a decent deck was tear-your-hair-out frustrating. That's when lightning struck.
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