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This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. The picture above is from the actual event courtesy of Dan Farber who was writing for ZDNet.
It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. Far more expedient.
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She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. If you want to get a quick sense of the app there’s a short screen cast here that make it obvious what it does. They unveiled the app the the Launch conference and unanimously won 1st prize by all 10 judges. It sounds crazy, right?
I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr. AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2
You’re writing a freaking blog post! I run a conference – could you speak? I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Or ask Tasha to send you a screen shot of my weekly calendar. “But WAIT !!! How the hell can you tell us you don’t have time for email?”
” He was writing to people. Not replying to anybody on Twitter is like speaking on stage at a conference and then sneaking out the back without shaking any hands. To get on his radar screen. In the first 2 weeks I even saw a few people on Twitter say, “Is that the real Marc Andreessen?” Many people. Any people.
I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.
I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.
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It''s more than showing up every two months and writing that dues check so they can say they''re an angel--it''s having them pitch in and grab the oars, and help move the group forward. To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing.
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But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going. On a phone call it’s too easy to be distracted and thumb through paperwork, stare out the window or glance at your computer screen.
I’m not arguing that no screening is required. Brad Feld and I were discussing the topic at lunch at the most excellent Glue Conference this week in Boulder. He encouraged me to write this post and after smoking me out on Twitter I had no choice. But here’s the thing. So here goes. I have never regretted firing anybody.
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