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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? That notes only told part of the story. I funded them 8 weeks later. Call an audible.

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Identifying Pain in the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How

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If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. And then there’s the key transition slide, which I call “What We Find” (WWF) or some variation of this. Click here.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them.

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How to Quickly Build a Customer Base With Lead Generation Tools

Tech.Co

But apart from building traffic, what I find most challenging is incorporating a lead capture strategy that will actually generate some blog subscribers. It also takes only an hour to develop your own using a rapid development framework like CakePHP. Everything can be done via the drag-and-drop interface.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

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If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. I would expect 2-3 deals out of 10 to hit the A status.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts.