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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. Where you planning to demo? Far more expedient.

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WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

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Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you. You should send “update emails&# that are very short but highlight some of the achievements you made with the intro saying, “since you showed interest in my company I just wanted to provide you a brief update on our progress.&#

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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Your product demo crushed. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back. 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.

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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

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Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!”

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com. Distribution.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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4 Tools to Help Startups Find Quality Leads

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Here are some of our top recommendations to get you started: Email Finder Tool – Voila Norbert. The result will appear in a panel below the search fields, indicating if it’s a 100 percent confirmed email address. It will create a personalized email campaign based on your answers to simple questions.

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