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How to Nail a Group Presentation

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Most people suck at presenting to big groups. 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. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

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How to Present and Answer Questions in a Team Presentation or VC Pitch

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I sit through a lot of presentations. These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting. Some CEO’s are masters at communicating when team members are present. Some fare less well. This is really annoying. Summary : Teams matter.

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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

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A Short Presentation I was invited to do a keynote presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit this week in Sausalito. If you filibuster through long presentations then as a board we walk away understanding your company better but you don’t walk away with any real value. Below is the full presentation embedded.

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The Breakthrough Presentation that Stole the Upfront Summit

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I don’t really want to tell you about his presentation because it was such a masterpiece, so profound & insightful that I’d urge you just to watch it yourself. I promise you insights, entertainment, emotion, thoughtful challenges and a bit of celebrity guest appearances :) TED?

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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And the folks at Startup Grind have been kind enough to invite me to present this morning in Mountain View on the topic. Since it is sometimes hard to get the full context from a conference presentation, I have included blog posts links on the topics in which I have written fuller posts in the presentation itself. and so forth.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus

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No doubt it’s a richer presentation with audio and voiceover so I hope that SaaStr is recording and releasing presentations. This is a message we have been delivering to our portfolio privately so we figured it made sense to make it more public broadly in case its of any help to others. I welcome any feedback.

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6 Ways To Make Your Business Presentations Stand Out

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As an entrepreneur, I understand your passion when pitching your solution to investors and customers, but passion alone won’t make one more technology pitch stand out above all the rest. I can tell you from my own experience as an advisor and an investor, what everyone remembers is a good personal story.

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