Boris Hristov

Founder of 356labs

Founder of 356labs
and PowerPoint MVP.
Speaker, Trainer & Author.
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Starting My Company. Mistake 2.

June 27, 2016 By Boris Hristov 2 Comments

starting_a_company_mistake_2Thinking that the market will react really, really fast! And I mean — fast.

When I started 356labs, I seriously believed that at the moment when we announce that we are now opened to work with customers, there will be number of people and companies immediately seeking out our help. At the end of day, if you look at how those same people and companies present, it’s scary! It’s like we are back in 1995. Text, bullet points and Clip Art are still dominating their world and yet those same organizations wonder why they cannot sell or persuade their audiences to do what they want them to do — buy their product, subscribe to a service, act on a task, etc.

Now, let’s see what happened. Even though we are now reached by a new customer almost every single week, back then, yes, we indeed had our first customer on the 10th day (PhD presentation), but more or less that was it! After this project there was almost no one reaching out to us and trust me — we were pushing the news that we are there through every single channel possible, we were pushing great content(and we continue to do so) and a lot, lot more.

So…

I am not saying your company won’t explode on the first week after you announce it(hopefully it will!). I am just asking you to not believe as badly as I did that customers and business will come your way immediately just because you have a great product / service. It takes time. It just does…

Filed Under: Business, Perosnal Tagged With: 356labs, Career Development, Challenge, Design, Lean Startup, Lessons Learned, Presentation Design, Startup

Podcast: Presentation Design, 356labs and a Bit of SQL Server

June 14, 2016 By Boris Hristov Leave a Comment

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It’s a podcast after podcast, after podcast! This time I was invited by a friend of mine from the SQL Server community – Chris Bell to talk about my shift from the world of databases to the world of presentations and presentation design. We chatted for an hour and discussed a ton of things around what it takes to become a successful speaker and how to create stunning slides that differentiate you as a presenter. I shared quite some really practical advises, so go ahead, click the link and enjoy listening!

Filed Under: Perosnal, Presentation Skills & Presentation Design, Public Speaking, SQL Server Tagged With: Career Development, Microsoft, Policy-Based Management, PowerPoint, Presentation Design, Presentation Skills, SQL Server Community, Training

Podcast: Successful Presentations, Starting a Company and More

June 9, 2016 By Boris Hristov 1 Comment

Madeira Podcast

Here we go again! Again?

A few months back I was invited to join my friends from MadeiraSQL – Matan Yungman and Guy Glantser as part of their podcast and this time we talked not about SQL Server! This time we focused on my new adventure – 356labs. However, the podcast turned out to be not just on presentation design and why it matters, but incredibly practical. I thought it would be really cool to share a ton of seriously practical advices and so I did! 

Enjoy listening as this is probably one of my best podcasts ever!

Filed Under: Presentation Skills & Presentation Design, Public Speaking, SQL Server Tagged With: Career Development, Podcast, PowerPoint, Presentation Design, Presentation Skills, SQL Server Community

Leaving the SQL Server World.

June 2, 2016 By Boris Hristov 20 Comments

It’s an important day for me. I am making a move and leaving my SQL Server career to spend my whole time and energy on 356labs – the company I started last October. Our mission is simple – I want us to help and raise the level of the presentations out there because we are far away from being where we need to be.

And so with the below video I am asking you for your “Good luck, man!” and I am asking you, if I was of help to you at least once,  just know about us, the services and trainings that we provide. Probably this way we will be able to help more people and who knows – we may see each other at a training or an event…

Cheers, everyone and thank you for everything!

Filed Under: Business, Perosnal, Presentation Skills & Presentation Design, SQL Server Tagged With: Career Development, PASS, Presentation Design, Presentation Skills, Training

Welcome Back!

March 15, 2016 By Boris Hristov Leave a Comment

Hello and welcome back everyone!

I know it’s been a few months since I last wrote something here, but I have an excuse and I believe you know what it is – 356labs.

No more excuses, though! Starting today, I will “restart” my blogging here and trust me, I have a ton to write about…

Looking forward to it already, guys. Missed it.

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By the way, I hope you like the new minimalistic and simple design of the blog.

I am cleaning up some old blog posts and fixing a few issues here and there, but the overall look will be this one, so I really hope you like the third redesign of borishristov.com! 

Filed Under: Perosnal Tagged With: 356labs, Design, Presentation Design

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